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.
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Paz Encina Director · Fernando Velázquez Composer Joraine Picanerai Composer
United States release September 17, 2022 · Produced in Argentina, France, Germany, Mexico, Netherlands, Paraguay, United States · Production Black Forest Films, Gaman Cine
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Argentina · France · Germany · Mexico · Netherlands · Paraguay · United States
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Original language
Spanish
Spoken on screen
Spanish
Release dates
Netherlands · January 26, 2022
Premiere · International Film Festival Rotterdam
Paraguay · May 19, 2022
Theatrical
United States · September 17, 2022
Premiere · Camden International Film Festival
Argentina
June 3, 2022 · Theatrical
Australia
August 5, 2022 · Premiere · Melbourne International Film Festival
France
December 6, 2022 · TV · ARTE
Germany
October 2, 2022 · Premiere · Hamburg Film Festival
Israel
July 23, 2022 · Premiere · Jerusalem Film Festival
Paraguay
May 18, 2022 · Premiere · Cinemark Paseo La Galería
South Korea
September 23, 2022 · Premiere · DMZ International Documentary Film Festival
Uruguay
September 25, 2022 · Premiere · Cinemateca Uruguaya
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