Hugo Giménez

Killing the Dead

Paraguay 1978, during Stroessner’s dictatorship, Pastor and Dionisio work burying bodies illicitly. In Argentina, the World Cup is being held. One morning, among the bodies, they find Mario, who is still alive. They know they must kill him but the problem is: in spite of what they are doing, they have never killed anyone before. A storm indicates that the winter is coming while the destiny of the three men is determined during the World Cup final. Both Pastor and Dionisio are the last link of a chain in the terrible system that has as a result in all the missing people.

Killing the Dead

Paraguay 1978, during Stroessner’s dictatorship, Pastor and Dionisio work burying bodies illicitly. In Argentina, the World Cup is being held. One morning, among the bodies, they find Mario, who is still alive. They know they must kill him but the problem is: in spite of what they are doing, they have never killed anyone before. A storm indicates that the winter is coming while the destiny of the three men is determined during the World Cup final. Both Pastor and Dionisio are the last link of a chain in the terrible system that has as a result in all the missing people.

Fuera de campo

A multiple murder involves peasants and Paraguayan government forces. Suddenly, a peasant testifies against his own side. He is an unnamed secret witness. Perla Álvarez sets out to look for him. However, this person becomes elusive and new questions arise in the process. Curiosity turns into an investigation and Perla wants to know who is behind the massacre. Far from finding any answers, she becomes trapped in the incongruities of the legal system, while the witness becomes a myth. Perla calls off the search with more doubts than when she started out, and while looking out on the extensive soybean fields she awaits for better times to come.