Savages

Sauvages

Director: Claude Barras
Country: Switzerland, France, Belgium

2024 | 87 min. | French
Synchronization in German
FSK 6
Age recommendation: ab 7

Cast_ Babette de Coster, Martin Verset, Laëtitia Dosch, Benoît Poelvoorde, Pierre-Isaïe Duc Screenplay_ Catherine Paillé, Claude Barras Camera_ Simon Filliot Producer_ Nicolas Burlet Rights_ Goodfellas

Little Kéria, her cousin Selaï and a cute baby orangutan bravely fight against the destruction of the Borneo jungle. Superbly animated.

Kéria lives with her father on a palm oil plantation at the edge of the Borneo jungle. The dramatic events that make up this highly topical puppet film are set off when she finds an orphaned baby orangutan. Kéria cares for the cute animal and names it Oshi. Shortly afterwards, Kéria's cousin Selaï arrives. He belongs to a tribe of jungle dwellers. His family wishes to protect him from the increasingly dangerous conflicts with greedy loggers. The ancestral forest is threatened by destruction more than ever before. Kéria, Selaï and the baby orangutan Oshi bravely decide to protect it.

Director

Swiss animator Claude Barras has a university degree in anthropology and digital graphics. His film ›My Life as a Courgette‹ received an Oscar nomination and was awarded two Césars, the most important French film prize. ›Savages‹ is the animated film for the present moment.

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