Rotterdam, Cannes Winner Paz Encina Preps ‘The Unique Time,’ ‘About What Happens to Someone When They Face an Absence’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comJohn Hopewell Chief International Correspondent A Rotterdam Tiger Award winner for “Eami,” and Cannes Un Certain Regard Fipresci laureate for “Paraguayan Hammock,” Paz Encina is prepping her fourth feature, “The Unique Time” (“El Tiempo Único”), set to be brought to market at Locarno’s Open Doors.
In development, and written by Encina, the film begins – though Encina suggests she will conflate pasts and present, suggesting one continuum – in Paso de la Patria, in Argentina, Paraguay across the confluence of two rivers.
A family – Lorenza (70) and Pedro (73),their children – await news of Máximo, their youngest son who was 22 when he disappeared, and of Paraguay.
One morning, Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner is overthrown. “Exile has come to an end, but how does one return after twenty five years?
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