EL PRÍNCIPE DE NANAWA / THE PRINCE OF NANAWA
On a bustling footbridge separating Argentina and Paraguay, where people traffic all kinds of things in a mix of Guarani and Spanish, the director meets nine-year-old Angel. Struck by his expressiveness and panache, she follows him home. Over the course of ten years, they create a film together, during which Angel will have to make decisive choices for his future.
On a pedestrian bridge separating Argentina from Paraguay, all sorts of products are transported and traded, in a constant mix of Spanish and Guarani. Clarisa Navas finds herself there one day to report a story, and meets nine-year-old Ángel, who exhibits an unrivalled wit and a real vision for his small Paraguayan community of Nanawa and for the preservation of its Guarani language. Clarisa and her team embark on a whirlwind film with Ángel that will span almost ten years, becoming real family members and confidants to the young prince full of desire and hungry for change. Equipped with a camera, the daily routine becomes an intimate document of the young boy's metamorphosis. From the construction of his identity to the discovery of love, and the plunge into the local economic reality, Ángel is overtaken by social determinism and his dreams give way to survival. Yet the young man seems to retain that spark of the nine-year-old for whom nothing is inevitable.
It's a rare, long-term work, crafted with tenderness, kindness and a great deal of lucidity.
Aurélien Marsais
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Duración: 210 min.
Año: 2025
Con: Ángel Omar Stegmayer Caballero
Guion y Dirección Clarisa Navas
Realización e imagen: Clarisa Navas & Lucas Olivares
Producción ejecutiva: Eugenia Campos Guevara
Asistente de dirección: Liz Haedo
Montaje: Florencia Gomez García
Sonido: Mercedes Gaviria
Color: Inés Duacastella
Compañías productoras: Gentil cine srl en coproducción con Tekoha audiovisual (PY), Invasión Cine (COL) y Autentika films (ALE)
Formato de proyección disponible: dcp 5.1
Festivals:
Visions Du Rèel - Grand Jury Prize offered by la Mobilière
