Gabriela Sabaté

Movies

Eami
Producer
Eami means ‘forest’ in Ayoreo. It also means ‘world’. The story happens in the Paraguayan Chaco, the territory with the highest deforestation rate in the world. 25,000 hectares of forest are being deforested a month in this territory which would mean an average of 841 hectares a day or 35 hectares per hour. The forest barely lives and this only due to a reserve that the Totobiegosode people achieved in a legal manner. They call Chaidi this place which means ancestral land or the place where we always lived and it is part of the "Ayoreo Totobiegosode Natural and Cultural Heritage". Before this, they had to live through the traumatic situation of leaving the territory behind and surviving a war. It is the story of the Ayoreo Totobiegosode people, told from the point of view of Asoja, a bird-god with the ability to bring an omniscient- temporal gaze, who becomes the narrator of this story developed in a crossing between documentary and fiction.
Selva
Associate Producer
Killing the Dead
Producer
Paraguay 1978, during Stroessner’s dictatorship, Pastor and Dionisio work burying bodies illicitly. In Argentina, the World Cup is being held. One morning, among the bodies, they find Mario, who is still alive. They know they must kill him but the problem is: in spite of what they are doing, they have never killed anyone before. A storm indicates that the winter is coming while the destiny of the three men is determined during the World Cup final. Both Pastor and Dionisio are the last link of a chain in the terrible system that has as a result in all the missing people.
Orsai
Executive Producer
Rafael is the oldest brother of a close family belonging to generation of Olimpia Soccer club fans, he is in charge of managing the family's mini market. Due to his brothers mistake, he receives an eviction notice from the bank, and decides to pose as a lawyer to solve the case.
The Last Land
Producer
In precise, unhurried compositions of image and sound, Lamar’s feature debut portrays a man and his dying wife, living in a remote hut in the hills of Paraguay. All the stages of mourning are passed through in a single day in this wordless account of an emotional earthquake.
Man of the North
Producer
The revolution is over, but outlaws in the arid Chaco still harass the poor. An old woman reluctantly welcomes a lone gaucho.
Paraguayan Hammock
Producer
Set in 1935, a couple of aged smallholders are waiting for their son, for rain, for better days.