Emilio Barreto: Angels and Demons
Spain2024documentary26'International Short Competition
In Paraguay under the Stroessner regime, almost 400 people vanished without any trace and several hundred thousand ended up in prison, where they were tortured. One of them was Emilio Barreto, a young actor who was detained for 13 years altogether, although never convicted of any crime. Together with his wife, he was abducted within less than a month after their wedding. His beloved Nimia, who was released before him, waited for her husband to return home over the next years. Many years later, Emilo harks back to those events in his memories.
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- Cris AranaQ&A guest
Film director and screenwriter, born in Paraguay, 1985. She began writing and directing short films in 2018 and currently she is working on her first feature film. “Emilio Barreto: Angels and Demons” is her fifth short film as a director and her first documentary, after the narrative shorts “Y agua en guaraní” (2022), “Transition” (2019), “Workingay” (2019) and “Package” (2018).
- cinematography
- Diego Benítez
- script
- Cris Arana
- sound
- Manuel Apodaca, Germán Acevedo
- editing
- Jorge Pérez Paiva, Javier Duch
- production
- Cris Arana
- Photo
