Nothing But the Sun

Nothing But the Sun (2020)

Apenas el sol

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.

Date of release
2020-11-18
TMDB
7.7 / 10 (3)
Runtime
1h 15m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Aramí Ullón

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 0 · Nominations: 1

Nothing but the Sun is a 2020 Paraguayan-Swiss documentary film created and directed by Arami Ullón. The film is about Mateo Sobode Chiqueno, an Ayoreo indigenous man from Paraguay who has recorded Ayoreo interviews, songs, and rituals for over 40 years. It was selected as the Paraguayan entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards.

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