There has been an invasion. Eami lost her own kind, and so she started flying. The Asoja, the bird-god-woman of the native Ayoreo Totobiegosode culture, brings the memories of the past, present and future. She was a tiger, a plant, a jaguar. Today, she is Eami, a five-year-old girl whose name means Forest and World. She must leave her place while she wonders about death and the meaning of life.

Winner of the Tiger Award at Rotterdam, EAMI is a “work of respectful ethnography” (Screen Daily) from Paraguayan writer/director Paz Encina that is “equal parts nature doc and choral poem, an experimental memory essay that’s also an urgent elegy for a people, a forest, a world” (Variety).

DIRECTED BY PAZ ENCINA
PARAGUAY, ARGENTINA, MEXICO, GERMANY, FRANCE, UNITED STATES | 2022 | GUARANI & SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES