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The Last Ones

2023 · 87 min

A quiet, thoughtful journey through a scorched landscape, mixing scientific curiosity with quiet grief for a vanishing world.

Directed by: Sebastián Peña Escobar
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Ulf Dreschel, Jorge Escobar, Sebastián Peña Escobar

Overview: The vast Gran Chaco natural region in Paraguay is under serious threat from large-scale deforestation and wildfires. Filmmaker Sebastian Peña Escobar travels with the German entomologist Ulf Drechsel and the Paraguayan ornithologist Jota Escobar to this vulnerable, flammable area, which looks like an apocalyptic landscape with red dirt roads and dry thorny trees.

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Directed by: Sebastián Peña Escobar
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Ulf Dreschel, Jorge Escobar, Sebastián Peña Escobar

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
bleakstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: environment
nature
exploration
science
grief
Places: wilderness
countryside
road trip
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: documentary
true story
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex none

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Humour	3
Realism	10
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Tension	5
Darkness	6
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: documentary
Directed by: Sebastián Peña Escobar
Written by: Sebastián Peña Escobar
Starring: Ulf Dreschel, Jorge Escobar, Sebastián Peña Escobar
Cinematography: Pascual Glauser
Runtime: 87 min
Country: France, Paraguay, Uruguay
Languages: Guarani, Spanish

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