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The film is also available on VTIFF’s Virtual Cinema from Sunday, March 6th through March 8th.
Also playing Sunday, March 6th at 6 pm at The Savoy Theater in Montpelier. VTIFF Membership and Passes do not apply. Tickets for the Savoy HERE.
Paraguay’s official submission for both Documentary and International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards, Nothing but the Sun tells the story of Mateo Sobode Chiqueno who has been recording stories, songs, and testimonies of his Ayoreo people -the last uncontacted people of the Chaco – 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.
***Followed by Q&A with the director and producer
Director Bio:
Arami Ullón was born in 1978 in Asunción (Paraguay). She produced “18 and a Half Cigarettes” (Marcelo Tolces -ESP/MEX/PY, 2011). She directed the short film “Ausencia de un nombre propio” (PY, 1998) and the featuredocumentaries El tiempo nublado (CH/PY, 2014) and Apenas El Sol (CH/PY, 2020). El Tiempo Nublado was Paraguay’s first entry to the Oscars (2016). Her second feature documentary Apenas El Sol was the opening film of IDFA (International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam, Netherlands 2020) and received the FIPRESCI award at the Istanbul Documentary Days (Turkey -2021). Her films have been screened at prestigious festivals
such as Locarno (Switzerland), Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic), HotDocs (Canada), Montreal International Documentary Festival (Canada), Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine de la Habana (Cuba), DOC NYC, among many others. Ullon’s second feature, Apenas El Sol (Nothing But The Sun) has been selected by the Paraguayan Academy of Cinematographic Arts and as the official entry to represent Paraguay at the upcoming Academy Awards ®. The film is also nominated for the IDA awards. Ullón lives and works in Switzerland and in Paraguay.
The festival program is in partnership with the Vermont Abenaki Artists Association
