The Eami film arrives in Paraguay with several international awards
The film Eami, by Paz Encina, opens this Thursday, May 19, in theaters in Paraguay. The film arrives in the country with the Tiger Award, the main award at the Rotterdam Festival, the Netherlands, and best direction at the 23rd Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival (Bafici).
Encina, who premiered her first film Hamaca paragua ya (2006) at the Cannes Film Festival and later delved into what the Stroessner dictatorship meant with her second feature film, Exercises of Memory (2016), once again turns to memory with Eami , which in this case deals with the history of the Ayoreo Totobiegosode people told from the trance of a girl between pain and healing, with the ability to carry an omniscient-timeless gaze, who from the intersection between documentary and fiction becomes in the narrator of this story and in that way she collects memories.
This new 84-minute feature film delves into the Ayoreo people in the Chaco.
“I spent two years working with them, collecting their memories. In our third year together, I asked one of the leaders how they expressed love to each other. In the community, on the days of coexistence, I saw that they did not touch, they did not kiss, they did not hug each other and Tagüide, a young leader, answered me: 'We express love through words. For us, everything heals, with love in words'. It was only then that I was able to understand that destiny,” explains Encina.
DETAILS. Eami is a production under the direction and script of Paz Encina, with the collaboration of José Elizeche and the assistance of Tagüide Picanerái. It was produced by Encina and Gabriela Sabaté. The direction of photography corresponds to Guillermo Saposnik.
The film also received other international distinctions, such as at the Visions du Réel festival, dedicated to documentary film in Switzerland; and special mention of the jury at the 34th Latin American Film Festival in Toulouse, France. During its tour of festivals, the film received excellent reception from the specialized press. "It combines Encina's documentary strength, which has earned him international recognition, and his interest in highly poetic narration," according to Variety's review.
In another comment, Screendaily notes: “Seasoned editor Jordana Berg's beats are slow, rural, and stately. Javier Umpierrez's soundscape is a symphony of natural noises, while cinematographer Guillermo Saposnik punctuates lush landscape images with eerie close-up portraits, eyes closed in visionary, brooding communion." Read More...
