Nothing but the Sun (Apenas el Sol)

  • An old man looking into the fabric

Facing the consequences of a violent uprooting, Mateo Sobode Chiqueño 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, 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.

Presented by RoxCine.

Runtime
1h 15m
Year
2020
Director
Arami Ullon
Format
DCP
Country
Paraguay & Switzerland
Language
Spanish with English subtitles
Categories
  • Assisted Listening