Film Review: Los Buscadores

This article is adapted from AQ's print issue on transparency and the 2018 elections

Following the success of their highly acclaimed debut 7 Cajas (7 Boxes), Paraguayan directors Juan Carlos Maneglia and Tana Schémbori return with an unvarnished look at one of their country’s most baffling — and revealing — national obsessions.

Los Buscadores (The Gold Seekers) follows two young Paraguayans as they try to strike it rich in pursuit of the local...

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