Director: Anna Recalde Miranda

Producers: Cristina Rajola, Andrea Gandolfo

Screenplay: Anna Recalde Miranda

Cinematographer: Anna Recalde Miranda

Paraguay. After 35 years under the Stroessner dictatorship, the country was ruled for 17 years by the corrupt Colorado Party (the only political party allowed after the “democratic transition”). Fernando Lugo, a former bishop running for president, represents the country’s hope to finally build a better future. The film chronicles the quixotic struggle of Martín Almada, an internationally recognized human rights activist who discovered the Archives of Terror, as he fights to expose

the links between the old dictatorial system and the corrupted democracy that the future president Lugo will inherit.

 

 

Paraguay. Después de 35 años bajo la dictadura de Stroessner y 17 bajo el poder y la corrupción del Partido Colorado, único partido en el gobierno después de la “transición democrática.”

Lugo representa la esperanza para construir por fin un futuro mejor. Martín Almada, activista por los derechos humanos, internacionalmente reconocido y descubridor del Archivo del Terror, combate en estos tiempos como un Quijote para denunciar los vínculos existentes entre el viejo sistema dictatorial y la corrupción de la actual democracia.

Anna Recalde Miranda is an Italian-Paraguayan filmmaker. She worked as a producer in Stefilm (Italy) and in Adelante (France)

where she collaborated with the director Hubert Sauper. She also worked with the director Lech Kowalski as camerawoman and editor on his last film, Winners and Losers, which was selected at the 2007 Locarno Festival in Switzerland. La Tierra Sin Mal was selected at the Guadalajara International Film Festival and was awarded Best Documentary at the Hai Visto Mai Festival in Siena, Italy.