Guapo'y

Celsa covers her skin with roots and leaves from her jungle-like garden. She wants to heal. She still feels prison and torture endured 45 years ago in a concentration camp in Paraguay. However, the past echoes; the country is ruled by the son of the former dictator's right-hand man.  

'For me, Guapo'y is the confirmation that stories find us. They are voices and tracks that rise up thanks to their protagonists' drive. With her kindness and simplicity, Celsa teaches me the importance of fighting together, and that healing cannot be carried out without encountering oneself first, one's images and memories. Celsa's journey represents the need of the Paraguayan people. The need not to forget and not to allow oblivion to be enacted by current leaders who defend the worst years of a country's history, years of horror and silence. Guapo'y is an urgent tale of an aching body that needs to heal'. - Sofía PAOLI THORNE