Documentary | Apenas El Sol

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.