Eami

Paz Encina
2022, 83′

In Spanish, Guarani and Ayoreo with Slovenian subtitles

5,30 / 4,50 €
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Eami is a little girl, a member of the Ayoreo-Totobiegosode people who do not make a distinction between things that have surrounded them for centuries: the trees, animals, and plants for them are one. In fact, in the Ayoreo language, Eami means both “forest” and “world”. Their forest-world is in the Paraguayan Chaco, the territory with the highest deforestation rate in the world. When machines swallow Eami’s home, she falls into a trance and embodies Asojá, the bird-god-woman, walking slowly and in a daze through her beloved forest as she prepares to leave it forever.

Paz Encina turns Eami’s final wander into an experience for all the senses, with enchanting images and powerful sounds. A bird screams. The wind rustles the leaves. Something growls in the distance. Then: the machines. Panic. Eami is an indictment and a poetic attempt to record something that will be lost. “Remember everything,” says the lizard/old man who accompanies Eami on her journey. “Once we leave, we can never come back.”

Before the screening, the audience will be addressed by Varja Močnik.

Trailer: Eami

Director, scriptwriter: Paz Encina; director of photography: Guillermo Saposnik; film editor: Jordana Berg; music: Fernando Velázquez Vezzetti, Joraine Picanerai; cast: Anel Picanerai, Curia Chiquejno Etacoro, Ducubaide Chiquenoi, Basui Picanerai Etacore, Lucas Etacori, Guesa Picanerai, Lazaro Dosapei Cutamijo; organisation: City of Women and Kinodvor in co-operation with Isola Cinema International Film Festival.