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Poster for Nothing But the Sun

Nothing But the Sun

Opens on March 6

 

Director: Aramí Ullón Run Time: 75 min. Release Year: 2020 Language: Spanish

Starring: Mateo Sobode Chiqueno

VTIFF Global Roots Festival showcase, March 6th

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.

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