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 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.
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 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
RETO STAMM
JACQUES KIEFFER
JASCHA DORMANN
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
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). She produces, writes and directs, between Basel and Paraguay.
SCREENINGS
Festivals
Opening Film and Competition, IDFA 2020
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PRESS & CONTACT
INTERNATIONAL PRESS CONTACT
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Germany
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DOWNLOADS
Film poster
Portrait Arami Ullón
Photo selection
PRODUCTION
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8006 Zürich
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info@cineworxfilmproduktion.ch
www.cineworxfilmproduktion.ch
WORLD SALES
Film Republic
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London E8 1he,
United Kingdom
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DISTRIBUTION (CH)
cineworx gmbh
Clarastrasse 48
4005 Basel
+41-61 261 63 70
info@cineworx.ch
www.cineworx.ch
DISTRIBUTION (PY)
Arami Ullón Cine
Luis de Bolaños 126
Asunción
Paraguay