Movies by Paz Encina

Paraguayan Hammock

Paraguayan Hammock

Set in 1935, a couple of aged smallholders are waiting for their son, for rain, for better days.

Paraguayan Hammock

Paraguayan Hammock

A father and a mother await the arrival of a son on a rainy day.

Eami

Eami

Eami means ‘forest’ in Ayoreo. It also means ‘world’. The story happens in the Paraguayan Chaco, the territory with the highest deforestation rate in the world. 25,000 hectares of forest are being deforested a month in this territory which would mean an average of 841 hectares a day or 35 hectares per hour. The forest barely lives and this only due to a reserve that the Totobiegosode people achieved in a legal manner. They call Chaidi this place which means ancestral land or the place where we always lived and it is part of the "Ayoreo Toto...