Eami

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.

Year: 2022

Genre: Drama, Documentary

Studio: Silencio Cine, Black Forest Films, Fortuna Films S.L., Gaman Cine, Revolver Amsterdam, MPM Film, Eaux-Vives Productions, Louverture Films, Piano, Barraca Producciones, Grupo LVT, Sagax Entertainement, Estudios Splendor Omnia, Sabaté Films, ARTE

Director: Paz Encina

Cast: Anel Picanerai, Curia Chiquejno Etacoro, Ducubaide Chiquenoi, Basui Picanerai Etacore, Lucas Etacori, Guesa Picanerai

Crew: Paz Encina (Director), Guillermo Saposnik (Director of Photography), Jordana Berg (Editor), Paz Encina (Screenplay), Javier Umpierrez (Sound Designer), Fernando Velázquez (Original Music Composer)

Runtime: 85 minutes

Release: Jun 03, 2022

IMDb: 5.90/10 by 7 users

Language: Español

Budget: 0

Revenue: 0

Keyword : mythology, paraguay, trance, spirit, native peoples, deforestation, rainforest, indigenous peoples, ancestral, native language, sounds of nature