Sauvages
Sag Harbor Cinema Theater 2
Sunday, Apr 6, 2025 11:00 AM
The island of Borneo in Southeast Asia. One day, at the edge of the immense tropical forest where she lives, 11-year-old Kéria discovers an abandoned baby orangutan in her father’s palm tree operation. As she takes care of the young ape, her young cousin Selaï takes refuge with them to escape the conflict between his family and forestry companies. From then on, the trio will fight together against the threat of destruction that weighs on this ancestral forest. The opportunity for Kéria to discover her Penan roots. From the stop motion director Claude Barras of 2016’s Ma vie de Courgette (My Life as a Zucchini), Sauvages (Savages) premiered in the Young Audiences section of Cannes 2024 and played at Locarno 2024 and Annecy 2024.
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