Under the flags the, sun    
Paraguay - Argentina- USA, France- Germany

2025 Berlinale Panorama Premiere

This fully archival journey through the 35 years of Alfredo Stroessner’s regime in Paraguay reveals unseen footage and explores one of the longest-running dictatorships in history, whose effects still resonate today.

Director
Juanjo Pereira

Asist. Direction
Sofia Lena Monardo

Cinematography
Francisco Bouzas

Editing
Manuel Embalse

Music
Andrés Montero Bustamante and  Julián Galay

Sound Design
Julián Galay

Production companies
Cine Mío, MaravillaCine, Sabaté Films

Executive Producer
Ivana Urizar, Gabriela Sabaté, Paula Zyngierman, Leandro Listorti, Juanjo Pereira, James Costa, Trevor Burgess, Hernán Mazzeo, Daniela Martinez Nannini, Sofía Lena Monardo.

Co- production
Bird Street Production, Lardux Films

Associate Producer
Welt Film

Awards

• RTP Award for the best project in the editing stage or first cut phase at DOCLISBOA, 2021.

• Selected in ARCHÉ in DOCLISBOA, 2021.

• Winner of the IDFA BERTHA FUND Development Fund, 2021.

• Obtained a grant from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts of Paraguay (FONDEC), 2021.

• Co-Production Meeting, Guadalajara International Film Festival.

• Mercado Entre Fronteras, Gramado International Film Festival.

NOTES & INTERVIEWS

• Los proyectos «Bajo las banderas, el sol» (Juan José Pereira); «Handycam» (Francisco Bouzas) y BEA VII (Natalia Garayalde), premiados en Lisboa