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Rotterdam, Cannes Winner Paz Encina Preps ‘The Unique Time,’ ‘About What Happens to Someone When They Face an Absence’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Brought to market at Locarno, the film is set up at Paraguay’s Sabaté Films and El Silencio, Mexico’s Piano, Germany’s Black Forest Films.
A Rotterdam Tiger Award winner for “Eami,” and Cannes Un Certain Regard Fipresci laureate for “Paraguayan Hammock,” Paz Encina is prepping her fourth feature, “The Unique Time” (“El Tiempo Único”), set to be brought to market at Locarno’s Open Doors. “Being Paraguayan and a woman, having lived a childhood and adolescence during a dictatorship with a father in the opposition, who was imprisoned, exiled and controlled for many years, are facts that have deeply marked my life,” Encina told Variety. Exile, loss, absence and the battle for memory, run through her first features: 2006’s “Paraguayan Hammock” has a couple waiting the return of their son, who left for his military service in the 1932-35 Chaco War.
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