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Apenas El Sol

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Facing the consequences of a violent uprooting, Mateo Sobode Chiqueno has been recording stories, songs, and testimonies of his Ayoreo people since the seventies. In an attempt to preserve fragments of a disappearing culture, Mateo walks across communities in the arid and desolate Paraguayan Chaco region, and registers on cassettes the experiences of other Ayoreo who, like him, were born in the vast forest, free and nomadic, without any contact with white civilization, until religious missionaries forced them to abandon their ancestral territory, their means of subsistence, their beliefs and their home.
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Manuel Betancourt Variety 12/21/2021
As a meditation on the banality of colonialism, "Nothing but the Sun" is remarkable. Go to Full Review Alan Zilberman Washington City Paper 09/27/2021
This film continues in a tradition of great documentaries: by letting the audience make up their own mind, they will take up the argument as their own. Go to Full Review Ricardo Gallegos La Estatuilla 05/06/2021
It brings to light a rich culture whose connection to the Earth is the direct antithesis of the capitalist ideals that ended their way of life.[Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review Allan Hunter Screen International 11/19/2020
Offers a moving requiem for uprooted communities with no possibility of reclaiming the life they once cherished. Go to Full Review Read all reviews
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Arami Ullon

Director

Arami Ullon

Writer

Pascal Trächslin

Producer

Gabriel Lobos

Cinematographer

Valeria Racioppi

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Arami Ullon

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Synopsis Facing the consequences of a violent uprooting, Mateo Sobode Chiqueno has been recording stories, songs, and testimonies of his Ayoreo people since the seventies. In an attempt to preserve fragments of a disappearing culture, Mateo walks across communities in the arid and desolate Paraguayan Chaco region, and registers on cassettes the experiences of other Ayoreo who, like him, were born in the vast forest, free and nomadic, without any contact with white civilization, until religious missionaries forced them to abandon their ancestral territory, their means of subsistence, their beliefs and their home.
Director
Arami Ullon
Producer
Pascal Trächslin
Screenwriter
Arami Ullon, Arami Ullon
Production Co
Cineworx Filmproduktion, Arami Ullon Cine, Nevada Cine
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
Spanish
Runtime
1h 15m
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