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Eami

Eami

JUN 3, 2022 · 85 MIN · DIR. PAZ ENCINA

DramaDocumentary

Eami means ‘forest’ in Ayoreo. It also means ‘world’. The story happens in the Paraguayan Chaco, the territory with the highest deforestation rate in the world. 25,000 hectares of forest are being deforested a month in this territory which would mean an average of 841 hectares a day or 35 hectares per hour. The forest barely lives and this only due to a reserve that the Totobiegosode people achieved in a legal manner. They call Chaidi this place which means ancestral land or the place where we always lived and it is part of the "Ayoreo Totobiegosode Natural and Cultural Heritage". Before this, they had to live through the traumatic situation of leaving the territory behind and surviving a war. It is the story of the Ayoreo Totobiegosode people, told from the point of view of Asoja, a bird-god with the ability to bring an omniscient- temporal gaze, who becomes the narrator of this story developed in a crossing between documentary and fiction.

Cast

  • Anel Picanerai

  • Curia Chiquejno Etacoro

  • Ducubaide Chiquenoi

  • Basui Picanerai Etacore

  • Lucas Etacori

  • Guesa Picanerai

  • Lazaro Dosapei Cutamijo

  • Aníbal Ortíz

    Aníbal Ortíz

    Paraguayan Men

Crew

Screenplay

Paz Encina

Director of Photography

Guillermo Saposnik

Editor

Jordana Berg

Original Music Composer

Fernando Velázquez

Original Music Composer

Joraine Picanerai

Producer

Ilse Hughan

Producer

Raymond van der Kaaij

Producer

Nicolás Gil Lavedra

Producer

Emiliano Torres

Producer

Claire Gadéa

Producer

Paz Encina

Producer

Christoph Hahnheiser

Producer

Josune Hahnheiser

Producer

Joslyn Barnes

Producer

Luc Hardy

Producer

Kirsi Saivosalmi

Producer

Marie-Pierre Macia

Producer

Xénia Maingot

Producer

Susan Rockefeller

Producer

Carlos Reygadas

Producer

Lorena Villarreal

Producer

Darian De La Fuente

Producer

Julio Chavezmontes

Producer

Gabriela Sabaté

Producer

Denisse Chapa

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