SYNOPSIS & TRAILER
Facing the consequences of a violent uprooting, Mateo Sobode Chiqueno has been recording
stories, songs, and testimonies of his Ayoreo people since the sixties. 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. After the moving film «El Tiempo Nublado» («Cloudy Times») , director Arami Ullón returns with a humanistic and poetic documentary that opened the prestigious International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam (IDFA) in 2020.
PROTAGONISTS
& CREW
Featuring
MATEO SOBODE CHIQUENO
APAI ROMAN DOSAPE CHIQUENO, TUNE PICANERAI, DOJAE TONA PICANERE, IBEUA CHIQUENO, CUTEIJNAI ETACORE, JUPIDE CANDIDA CHIQUENO, IGAUBI ANTONIO DOSAPE CHIQUENO, AMAJNANE PICANERAI, PEBIDATE CLAUDIA KIKOME DOSAPE and COMUNIDADES AYOREO
Crew
Written and directed by
ARAMI ULLÓN
Producer
PASCAL TRAECHSLIN
Co-Producer
ARAMI ULLÓN
Associate Producers
SEBASTIÁN MURO
ANDREW SALA
Production
CINEWORX FILMPRODUKTION
Co-Production
ARAMI ULLÓN CINE
Director assistant
ADRIANA CASCO DIAZ
In association with
NEVADA CINE
Director of photography
GABRIEL LOBOS
Additional camera
NIKOLAI VON GRAEVENITZ
OSCAR AYALA PACIELLO
Sound engineer
RETO STAMM
JACQUES KIEFFER
Additional sound
NICOLAS HALLET
Supervising sound editor & sound design
TOBIAS KOCH
Dialogue editor
SIMON HAUSWIRTH
Sound editor & additional sound design
JASCHA DORMAN
Sound mix
JACQUES KIEFFER
Editing
VALERIA RACIOPPI (SAE)
REBECCA TRÖSCH
Dramaturgy in editing
VALERIA RACIOPPI (SAE)
Music
CANCIONES TRADICIONALES
DEL PUEBLO AYOREO
Production manager
KAREN FRAENKEL
Postproduction
BEAT LENHERR, PANIMAGE
Color grading
CAÏQUE DE SOUZA
Postproduction Coordinator
CHRISTOPH ARNI
Translation Ayoreo - Spanish
GUEBEI BOABI OSCAR
MATEO SOBODE CHIQUENO
Artwork and titles
PATRICK OSER
MARTIN WÜLSER
Distribution (CH)
CINEWORX
Distribution (PY)
ARAMI ULLÓN CINE
Worldsales
XAVIER HENRY-RASHID, FILM REPUBLIC
International Press
MIRJAM WIEKENKAMP, NOISE FILM PR
Supported by
SWISSLOS-FONDS BASEL-STADT UND SWISSLOS-FONDS BASEL-LANDSCHAFT, FACHAUSSCHUSS FILM UND MEDIENKUNST BS/BL, BUNDESAMT FÜR KULTUR BAK, ZÜRCHER FILMSTIFTUNG, KULTURFONDS SUISSIMAGE, MEDIA DESK SUISSE, VOLKART STIFTUNG, UBS KULTURSTIFTUNG, SECRETARÍA NACIONAL DE CULTURA DEL PARAGUAY,
FONDEC – FONDO NACIONAL DE LA CULTURA Y LAS ARTES, CENTRO CULTURAL DE LA REPÚBLICA “EL CABILDO”, ENTIDAD BINACIONAL ACYRETÁ,
ASOCIACIÓN CULTURAL COMUNEROS, INICIATIVA AMOTOCODIE MINISTERIO DEL AMBIENTE Y DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE, DIRECCIÓN GENERAL DE PROTECCIÓN Y CONSERVACIÓN DE LA BIODIVERSIDAD, DIRECCIÓN DE ÁREAS SILVESTRES PROTEGIDAS
This film was developed in
CURSO DE DESARROLLO DE PROYECTOS IBEROAMERICANOS 2015, IDFACADEMY SUMMER SCHOOL 2018
Selected by
MERCADO DE COPRODUCCIÓN CINELATINO TOULOUSE 2015, PITCHING DU RÉEL 2017
ARAMI ULLÓN
Arami Ullón was born in 1978 in Asunción, Paraguay. Produced «18 and a half Cigarettes» (SPAIN/MEX/PAR – 2011). Directed the feature documentaries «El Tiempo Nublado» (CH/PAR – 2014) and «Apenas el Sol» (CH/PAR – 2020). Her feature documentary debut was awarded the Regard Neuf for Best First Film at Visions du Réel (2014) and was the first Paraguayan entry to the Oscars (2016). Her second documentary was the Opening Film at IDFA (2020). She produces, writes and directs, between Switzerland and Paraguay.
FESTIVALS & PRIZES
Paraguayan Entry to the Goyas 2023: Mejor Película Iberoamericana
Paraguayan Entry to the Oscars 2022: International Feature and Documentary Feature
Nomination for Best Documentary – Schweizer Filmpreis 2022
Nomination for Best Feature – IDA Awards 2021
Shortlisted Best Documentary – 12th Annual Cinema Tropical Awards 2021
Shortlisted Best Iberoamerican Film – Premios Platino 2021
Prizes
Prix documentaire – Rencontres de Toulouse
Prix du public documentaire – La dépêche du midi
Fipresci Prize 2021 - Documentarist - Istanbul Documentary Days
Bydgoszcz Art/Doc Award 2021 - Doc Against Gravity 2021
Jackson Wild Global Voices Recognition Award - Jackson Wild 2021
Best Feature Documentary - Lunenburg Doc Fest 2021
Honourable Mention at the "Other Views" section - Olhar de Cinema 2021
Madame Melpo Award - BIFED – Bozcaada International Festival of Ecological Documentary 2021
Best Director Feature Doc Film - Filmambiente Brazil
Beste Kamera in der Kategorie Dokumentarfilm - Zürcher Filmpreis 2021
7. MOVEIT Film Award - MoveIt! Filmfestival Dresden
Kaleidoscope Special Mention – DOC NYC 2021
LASA Award of Merit in Film – LASA International Film Fest 2022
Meilleur Documentaire – Canada International First People's Festival Montreal 2022
Festivals
Opening Film and Competition, IDFA 2020
Wales One World Film Festival, 2021
Cinélatino – Rencontres de Toulouse, 2021
Internationales Frauen Film Festival, Köln
Documentarist - Istanbul Documentary Days
Viva Latino Manchester
17 Festival Internacional de Cine de Derechos Humanos de Bolivia
Guanajuato interantional Film Festival
AFI Latin American Film Festival
Nuremberg International Human Rights Film Festival
BIFED – Bozcaada International Festival of Ecological Documentary
B3 - Biennale of the Moving Image
Braunschweig Int. Film Festival
Slow Film Festival
RIDM Montreal Int. Documentary Festival
Gijón International Film Festival
Festival Geneva, Filmar en America Latina
Festival St. Gallen, Pantalla Latina
Ambulante Mexico
Reframe Film Festival 2021
Solothurner Filmtage 2022
Filmhaus Nürnberg - Latin American Film Week
LATcinema Fest Barcelona
Festival Internacional de Cine Ambiental FINCA
Latin American Film Festival at Danish Film Institute
CINEMAaf - Ciclo de Cine nacional - Alianza Francesa de Asunción
Costa Rica Festival International de Cine - Circuito Itinerante
Canada International First People's Festival, Montreal
Premios Goya: special screening at the Academia de Cine de España —Madrid
Oberá en Cortos - Misiones, Argentina
Festival Internacional de Cine Ambiental y de Derechos Humanos de Paraguay (FINCADH) – Asunción
Dias de Cine, 9. Lateinamerikanisches Filmfest Frankfurt
16. Muestra de Cine Iberoamericano de Chile
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