Screenplay: Sofía Paoli Thorne

Cinematography: Delfina Margulis Darriba, Willi Behnisch

Editor: Cecilia Almeida Saquieres

Music: Dahia Valenzuela

Producer: Gabriela Cueto, Federico Pozzi, Sofía Paoli Thorne

Production Company: Tekoha Audiovisual

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Synopsis:

Alfredo Stroessner was the longest ruling dictator on the South American continent, controlling Paraguay from 1954 to 1989 with an iron fist. Opponents were imprisoned, tortured or killed. Celsa covers her skin with roots and leaves from her jungle-like garden. She wants to heal. She still feels prison and torture endured 45 years ago in a concentration camp in Paraguay.

 

Filmography:

Sofia Paoli Thorne was born in Peru in 1982, she had to move with her family to Paraguay in 1989 escaping the armed conflicts. There she became a director, a producer and founded Tekoha Audiovisual where she made different audiovisual pieces for television, documentary films and NGOs videos.

 

Festivals and Awards:

35º International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). The Netherlands