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.

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

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Crew

Written and directed by

ARAMI ULLÓN

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Producer

PASCAL TRAECHSLIN

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Co-Producer

ARAMI ULLÓN

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Associate Producers

SEBASTIÁN MURO

ANDREW SALA

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Production

CINEWORX FILMPRODUKTION

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Co-Production

ARAMI ULLÓN CINE

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Director assistant

ADRIANA CASCO DIAZ

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In association with

NEVADA CINE

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Director of photography

GABRIEL LOBOS

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Additional camera

NIKOLAI VON GRAEVENITZ

OSCAR AYALA PACIELLO

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Sound engineer

RETO STAMM

JACQUES KIEFFER

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Additional sound

NICOLAS HALLET

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Supervising sound editor & sound design

TOBIAS KOCH

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Dialogue editor
SIMON HAUSWIRTH
 

Sound editor & additional sound design
JASCHA DORMAN

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Sound mix

JACQUES KIEFFER

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Editing

VALERIA RACIOPPI (SAE)

REBECCA TRÖSCH

Dramaturgy in editing

VALERIA RACIOPPI (SAE)

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Music

CANCIONES TRADICIONALES

DEL PUEBLO AYOREO

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Production manager

KAREN FRAENKEL

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Postproduction

BEAT LENHERR, PANIMAGE

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Color grading

CAÏQUE DE SOUZA

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Postproduction Coordinator

CHRISTOPH ARNI

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Translation Ayoreo - Spanish

GUEBEI BOABI OSCAR

MATEO SOBODE CHIQUENO

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Artwork and titles

PATRICK OSER

MARTIN WÜLSER

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Distribution (CH)

CINEWORX

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Distribution (PY)

ARAMI ULLÓN CINE

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Worldsales

XAVIER HENRY-RASHID, FILM REPUBLIC

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International Press

MIRJAM WIEKENKAMP, NOISE FILM PR

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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 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.