CEDLA Film screening Un Día Soleado
A documentary about a young woman’s fight against an 80-year political machine in Paraguay.
- Date
- 20 November 2026
- Time
- 15:30 -17:30
- Location
- BG 3
- Room
- VOX-POP
In the heart of South America, Un Día Soleado follows a woman vice-presidential candidate, Soledad Núñez, and her campaign team as they attempt to win Paraguay's 2023 election by breaking the conservative Colorado Party's near-80-year grip on power. The intimate, observational documentary captures a young generation's struggle to hold on to their faith in democracy while confronting corruption, sexism, populism, and the ghosts of South America's
longest dictatorship.
The screening of the film will be followed by a Q&A with its director Pamela Kalkman, a
Dutch-Paraguayan documentary maker, researcher and journalist.
Programme:
15:30–17:10 Film screening (1h25m)
17:10 - 17:30 Q&A with director Pamela Kalkman
Speaker:
Pamela Kalkman is a Dutch-Paraguayan documentary maker and journalist. She has worked as a researcher and assistant director on international documentary series for Amazon Prime Video, Vice Studios and Dutch public broadcasters BNNVARA, NTR, HUMAN and VPRO. She studied political science at the University of Amsterdam and conflict studies and human rights at Utrecht University. Un Día Soleado is her first feature film.
