EAMI
Directed by Paz Encina
Louverture Films is a Co Producer
FESTIVALS & AWARDS
MIRAGE Film Festival 2023
Cairo International Film Festival 2022
Oslo Films from the South Festival 2022 - Nominee DOC : South Award Best Documentary
Cork Film Festival 2022
Belo Horizonte Documentary and Ethnographic Film Festival 2022
Hamburg Film Festival 2022 - Nominee Audience Award Best Film
Festival Internacional de Cine de Cali (FICCALI) 2022
DMZ International Documentary Film Festival 2022 - Nominee White Goose Award - Grand Prize International Competition
Camden International Film Festival 2022 - Nominee Emerging Cinematic Vision Award
Jerusalem Film Festival 2022 - Nominee In Spirit for Freedom Award Best Feature
Guadalajara International Film Festival 2022 - Nominee Best Ibero-American Feature Film
Sydney Film Festival 2022
Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival 2022 - Winner Best Director - Avant-Garde & Genre Official Competition
Visions du Réel 2022 - Nominee Jury Prize Burning Lights Competition
Rencontres de Toulouse 2022 - Special Mention Grand Prix Coup de Coeur
Rotterdam International Film Festival 2022 - Winner Tiger Award
EAMI is told from the perspective of Eami (5), a member of the Ayoreo Totobiegosode community whose homeland is invaded by settlers intent on brutally corralling the Ayoreo and driving them out of their ancestral lands. Embodying Asojá, the bird-god-woman, Eami falls into trance in which she walks slowly and stunned through her beloved forest as she prepares to leave it forever.