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Nothing But the Sun

2020 · film · PY, CH

Latina-directedLatino-createdAbout the communityIdentityDiasporaIndigenous

Directed by: Aramí Ullón

Starring: Mateo Sobode Chiqueno

Runtime: 75 min

Why it mattersAI-assisted

The film is about Mateo Sobode Chiqueno recording stories of his Ayoreo people1. It was directed by Aramí Ullón2.

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  1. 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.
  2. credit — Nothing But the Sun (2020) is directed by Aramí Ullón.
  3. award — Nothing But the Sun (2020) awards (OMDb): 4 nominations

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.

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