SONNENSYSTEM

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Sonnensystem is a film about disappearance. It is a portrait of daily life in the indigenous community of the Kollas in Tinkunaku in the mountains of northern Argentina. Non-verbally, exclusively through images the film approaches the people of this small community, accompanies the seasonal tramp of Viviano and Ramona from the valley up to the village of Santa Cruz, 3,500 meters above sea level, where they spend the summer until the autumn rain makes them go back to Rio Blanquito. Living with the deeply religious Kollas, inbetween the old rites and the irruptive modernity, in the grandiose landscape of Yunga and Quechue, the film narrates the day-to-day disappearence of an indigenous people. (Thomas Heise)