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











