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‘Under the Flags, the Sun,’ About Paraguay’s 35-Year Dictatorship, Acquired by Cinephil Ahead of Berlinale Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)
World sales outfit Cinephil has boarded “Under the Flags, the Sun” by Paraguayan filmmaker Juanjo Pereira.
In 1989, the fall of Alfredo Stroessner’s 35-year dictatorship in Paraguay marked the end of one of the world’s longest authoritarian regimes, but also the abandonment of the audiovisual archives that had cemented its power. Decades later, a trove of unseen and long forgotten footage—as newsreels, public television broadcasts, propaganda films, and declassified documents—has been recovered from Paraguay and abroad, revealing the hidden mechanisms of power behind Stroessner’s rule. “The found Paraguayan footage reflects the appropriation of the past to indoctrinate, the construction of a national imaginary, and the cult of Stroessner,” according to a press statement.
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