NOTHING BUT THE SUN/Apenas El Sol (Official US Trailer 2022)

“a moving requiem for uprooted communities...substantial in its impact, Nothing But The Sun offers eloquent, emotional insights into the continuing catastrophe of colonialism.” - Allan Hunter, Screen International
Paraguay’s official submission for both Documentary and International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards, Nothing but the Sun / Apenas el sol tells the story of Mateo Sobode Chiqueno who has been recording stories, songs, and testimonies of his Ayoreo people since the seventies.
Facing the consequences of a violent uprooting, and 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 civilization, until religious missionaries forced them to abandon their ancestral territory, their means of subsistence, their beliefs and their home.

[@MaliceInCandyland]

Heard about this documentary on Outlook on the BBC World Service. Mateo deserves the Paraguayan version of the Congressional Medal of Honor. What a legend.

[@shivaree]

Such a splendid documentary about devastating issues!