Fernando Lugo

Movie - 2014, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

Fernando Lugo, the bishop of the poor, won the 2008 presidential elections in Paraguay. After 61 years of hegemony by the Colorado Party and by the dictator Stroessner, this unexpected victory came as a political miracle. But politics is not for saints and the dream turns into a nightmare. Power and Impotence tells the utopia of political change: the adventure of common men accessing power to try and challenge the system from within. In a political thriller settled in stranger-than-fiction Paraguay, we follow their hopes and disappointments from a unique behind-the-scene point of view, until the tragic ending. An uncommon film, an authentic modern Shakespearean drama about power.

Movie - 2008, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

After 35 years under the Stroessner dictatorship, the corrupt Colorado Party (the only political party allowed after the democratic transition) ruled Paraguay for 17 years. In 2008, Fernando Lugo, a former bishop running for president, represented the country's hope to finally build a better future. This film chronicles the quixotic struggle of Martín Almada, an internationally recognized human rights activist who discovered the Archives of Terror, as he fights to expose the links between the old dictatorial system and the corrupt democratic government that future president Lugo will inherit.

Movie - 2009, 2h 15m • as Self

A road trip across five countries to explore the social and political movements as well as the mainstream media's misperception of South America while interviewing seven of its elected presidents.

Movie - 2012, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

On April 20th, 2008, carried by a tremendous popular support worthy of the greatest South American revolutions, Fernando Lugo, the "suspended" bishop, is elected president of the Republic of Paraguay. After sixty years of absolute power, the Colorado party is compelled to accept the changeover of political power. This documentary will enable us to discover the scarcely known country nestled deep into the heart of the South American continent, its unique social structure, its painful past and its surprising identity. By listening to the newly elected president, to his deposed Colorado opponents, to the specialists of the history of the country and to the people itself, they will help us understand why the Paraguayans, after so many years of dictatorship and unopposed governing, have entrusted their destiny to a free man: a religious figure who threw himself into the political arena to try and rescue his country of crime, injustice and poverty and to restore democracy.

Movie - 2011, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

A few weeks before the presidential elections of 2008, the Paraguayan people's faith in a better future is reborn thanks to the candidacy of Fernando Lugo, the "priest of the poor." Facing the giant Colorado Party, which has been in power for more than 60 years, the former priest, now a politician, has the support of landless peasants and civil society to transform the country.

Movie - 2010, 2h 15m • as Self - President of Paraguay

Documentary about the independence and history of Latin America.

Movie - 2019, 2h 15m • as Self - President of Paraguay (2008–2012)

Documantary film on the dispute for the hegemony of the Latin American continent between conservative forces and popular movements.

Movie - 2012, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

This documentary explores the people who supported, benefited from, were harmed by, and resisted the parliamentary coup that removed Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo from office on June 22, 2012.