The story of people who need to remember a specific last moment from their childhood in Paraguay in order to understand the political context of one of Latin America’s longest dictatorships.
Between 1954 and 1989, Paraguay suffered one of the longest dictatorships in Latin America: 35 years of repression, silence, torture, exile, fear and disappearing. To remember that era would be a determining factor for the future of the country. It would mean an end to the system of corruption. Memory is the only thing that might save the Paraguayan people. ‘Memory Exercises’ is a documentary film about the story of people who need to remember specific moments – to recollect everything. It is also the story of a childhood in exile and the always-present question of returning to one’s homeland.
