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Manchester United youngster Amad has hailed fellow loanee Facundo Pellistri after shining for Uruguay in just his second international appearance.

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Marta Balaga Paraguayan filmmaker Paz Encina’s “Eami” – being sold by MPM Premium – has won the top Tiger Award and a €40,000 cash prize at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), the festival announced Wednesday. The 51st edition of the Dutch event, forced online due to the Omicron wave, will wrap on Sunday.The jury, made up of Zsuzsi Bankuti, Gust Van den Berghe, Tatiana Leite, Thekla Reuten and Farid Tabarki, was impressed with her complex, magical realist take on the suffering of the indigenous tribes, calling it a “powerful film.” “It gave us the opportunity to dream and, at the same time, a chance to wake up,” they stated.Inspired by the stories of the Ayoreo-Totobiegosode people, as well as their mythology, Encina created a tale about a young girl who embarks on a journey after her village is destroyed.

Model Cristina "Vita" Aranda has died after reportedly being shot during a music festival over the weekend. Aranda, a fitness trainer and social media influencer, was married to Paraguayan soccer player Ivan Torres, who mourned her passing on his Instagram account on Monday. "Dear followers, we appreciate the accompaniment and love that we receive in this delicate and difficult moment that we are experiencing," one of the statements shared to the Club Olimpia player's account reads.  "Out of respect in this delicate moment, the entrance to the wake room will be exclusively for family and friends," the statement continues.

Cristina “Vita” Aranda, a model and the estranged wife of soccer star Ivan Torres, has sadly passed away at just 29 years old.

MORE: Stephanie Seymour shares heartbreaking post following shock death of her sonThe incident occurred at the José Asunción Flores amphitheater on Sunday night, when a musical show called Ja'umina Fest was taking place, attended by thousands of people. Cristina 'Vita' Aranda has been tragically killed at 29Vita – a mother of three – was one of the casualties; she was transferred to hospital but passed away a short time later.

Cristiano Ronaldo returned to Manchester United training early following his winter break in Dubai.

Zidane Iqbal became Manchester United’s latest international player on Thursday as he made his debut for Iraq.

Emiliano Granada World premiering in this year’s Rotterdam Tiger Competition, Paraguayan filmmaker Paz Encina’s fourth feature “Eami” is a mythological tale born of the Ayoreo Totobiegosode, an indigenous community from the country’s northern regions. Unique in its form, the film blends Encina’s documentarian strengths that have garnered her international recognition and her interest in a highly poetic narrative storytelling.Produced by Silencio Cine and sold by MPM Premium, the story follows Eami, a child who embodies a bird-god and, in a trance, imagines herself wandering through the forest in constant contact with the cruel reality that surrounds her in the form of deforestation that is a very real, very tangible danger for the Ayoreo Totobiegosode.

Manchester United are taking a break from action this weekend due to the Premier League's winter break, which also doubles up as an international break for some.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentParis-based sales agent MPM Premium has shared with Variety a first trailer for “Eami,” a striking ecological fable and tale of the pain of exile which will world premiere in main competition at the 2022 Rotterdam Festival.Brought onto the market at Ventana Sur, “Eami” marks the fourth feature, and second narrative movie, from Paz Encina, Paraguay’s most prominent auteur whose 2005 debut, “Hamaca Paraguaya,” about an old couple awaiting their son’s return from the 1932-35 Chaco War, opened Cannes Critics’ Week, winning the Intl. Federation of Film Critics Fipresci Award for best film in that section.The background to “Eami” is the forced displacement of the Ayoreo Totobiegosode, who lived in the Northern Paraguayan Chaco, by one of the most rampant deforestations in the world, as companies coveted their land for stockbreeding.

Manchester United winger Facundo Pellistri has received his first senior international call-up from Uruguay.

Rangers ave been put on Old Firm red alert with Colombia boss Reinaldo Rueda considering handing Player of the Month Alfredo Morelos an international recall that would see him miss the Parkhead showdown against Celtic next month.

Manuel Betancourt The story of colonialism is the story of what’s been lost, of what’s been taken, of what’s been forgotten. Land.

Steve Harvey took extra caution when reading the teleprompter at this year’s Miss Universe pageant, and it helped him from making a bizarre error as host of the event. Steve was about to announce the winner of the pageant, and it came down to Miss India, Harnaaz Sandhu, and Miss Paraguay, Nadia Ferreira.

Not again! Steve Harvey narrowly avoided another beauty pageant catastrophe at the 2021 Miss Universe competition.

Harnaaz Sandhu, 21, was crowned Miss Universe during the pageant on Dec. 12. The 2020 titleholder from Mexico, Andrea Meza, was on-hand to crown her successor at the event, which was hosted by Steve Harvey. The first runner-up was Nadia Ferreira, from Paraguay, with South Africa’s Lalela Mswane being named third runner-up. However, in the end, it was Harnaaz who accepted the crown, looking stunning in a sparkling silver dress as she did so.

No, Steve Harvey won’t get fooled again.

The winner of the 2021 Miss Universe competition has been announced!

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentParis-based MPM Premium is bringing onto the market “Eami,” the latest film from Paraguay’s Paz Encina whose debut “Hamaca Paraguay” won a Cannes Un Certain Regard Fipresci Prize.A timely ecological fable and tale of the pain of exile, “Eami” will be presented to select buyers in person at Buenos Aires’ Ventana Sur this week as well as online by MPM Premium’s Quentin Worthington.He used 2020’s Ventana Sur market to unveil “The Pink Cloud,” from

A man and his daughter were murdered in the Paraguayan city of Aregua last month, and authorities there believe the horrific double-slaying to be related to the theft of several rare Stradivarius violins.

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The U.S. on Thursday regained a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council, three years after the previous administration withdrew from it.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent“Camila Comes Out at Night,” which plays in main competition this weekend at San Sebastián, begins with teen Camila in a museum, gazing at a ancient photo.

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Anna Marie de la Fuente Buenos Aires-based FilmSharks Int’l has scooped up worldwide rights to Paraguayan filmmaker Simon Franco’s “Charlotte,” a dramedy starring the grande dame of Spanish cinema, Angela Molina.“Charlotte” is produced by Franco’s Paraguay-based Lemon Cine, along with Argentina’s Pelicano Cine and FAM Contenidos.In addition, Lemon Cine has acquired the remake rights to Chilean comedy “Sin Filtro” from FilmSharks subsidiary The Remake Company, to make a Paraguayan version.Shot

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Damon Wise For her second feature documentary, after the highly personal “Cloudy Times” (2014), Paraguayan director Arami Ullón looked to her homeland’s vast and largely unpopulated Chaco region for inspiration. What she found there surprised her: she encountered a race of people known as the Arayeo, who had been taken from their native idyll and left in the middle of nowhere, with next to no amenities, by well-meaning white Christians.

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John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentMADRID — Paraguay’s Marcelo Martinessi, director of “The Heiresses,” a 2018 double Berlin Silver Bear winner, is re-teaming with the film’s sales agent, Paris-based Luxbox Films, as well as two of its key producers – Germany’s Pandora Filmproduktions and France’s La Fábrica Nocturna Productions – for Martinessi’s second feature, film noir “Who Killed Narciso?”As was the case with “The Heiresses” (“Las Herederas”), “Who Killed Narciso?” will be lead

Anna Marie de la Fuente Well Go USA Entertainment has snapped up North American distribution rights to Paraguayan box office hit “Morgue” from Buenos Aires-based sales agent FilmSharks.The deal caps a string of sales across the globe for the supernatural thriller.

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Louis Tomlinson has postponed two legs of his ongoing world tour due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The January transfer window may have shut last week but there are still transfers happening elsewhere in the world.

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Damián Amato has been at Sony Music Argentina for more than 15 years, beginning as marketing manager in 2003 after his first steps at BMG. For the past 10 years, he has led the company as General Director for South Cone (Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay).