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Eami

5.8(9)20221h 25m0

Eami means ‘forest’ in Ayoreo. It also means ‘world’. The story happens in the Paraguayan Chaco, the territory with the highest deforestation rate in the world. 25,000 hectares of forest are being deforested a month in this territory which would mean an average of 841 hectares a day or 35 hectares per hour. The forest barely lives and this only due to a reserve that the Totobiegosode people achieved in a legal manner. They call Chaidi this place which means ancestral land or the place where we always lived and it is part of the "Ayoreo Totobiegosode Natural and Cultural Heritage". Before this, they had to live through the traumatic situation of leaving the territory behind and surviving a war. It is the story of the Ayoreo Totobiegosode people, told from the point of view of Asoja, a bird-god with the ability to bring an omniscient- temporal gaze, who becomes the narrator of this story developed in a crossing between documentary and fiction.

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Status
Released
Budget
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Box office
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Language
Spanish
  • mythology
  • paraguay
  • trance
  • spirit
  • native peoples
  • deforestation
  • rainforest
  • indigenous peoples
  • ancestral
  • native language
  • sounds of nature

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Director

Paz Encina

Writers

Paz Encina

Produced in

Argentina, France, Germany, Mexico, Netherlands, Paraguay, United States of America

Where to watch

Availability for United States. Provided by JustWatch through the TMDB API.

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Gallery

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Videos

Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereCamden International Film Festival17 Sept 2022
  • AustraliaAU

    • PremiereMelbourne International Film Festival5 Aug 2022
  • ArgentinaAR

    • Theatrical3 Jun 2022
  • FranceFR

    • TVARTE6 Dec 2022
  • GermanyDE

    • PremiereHamburg Film Festival2 Oct 2022
  • IsraelIL

    • PremiereJerusalem Film Festival23 Jul 2022
  • NetherlandsNL

    • PremiereInternational Film Festival Rotterdam26 Jan 2022
  • South KoreaKR

    • PremiereAllDMZ International Documentary Film Festival23 Sept 2022
  • UruguayUY

    • PremiereCinemateca Uruguaya25 Sept 2022

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Eami was released on 3 June 2022.

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