Nestled — or hidden — in between Brazil and Argentina, the country of Paraguay is mostly absent from the global consciousness. An enigma of a nation for most, it bears a turbulent history not forged in isolation but as a consequence of and in conversation with global changes.
In the incisively constructed, archive-footage documentary “Under the Flag, the Sun,” filmmaker Juanjo Pereira positions his small South American homeland as a part of a larger geopolitical context by dissecting the regime of Gen. Alfredo Stroessner. One of the world’s longest-running dictatorships, Stroessner’s rule, under the right-wing Colorado party, began in 1954 after a military coup and only ended in 1989.
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