2024 · stop-motion · borneo · eco
Sauvages
Directed by Claude Barras1h 27m2024
In Borneo, near the tropical forest, Kéria rescues a baby orangutang in the palm oil plantation where her father works. Kéria's cousin Selaï comes to live with them seeking refuge from the conflict between his indigenous tribe and the logging companies. Kéria, Selaï and the little orangutang, now named Oshi, will have to fight against their forest’s destruction.
Our read: Sauvages (2024) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded stop-motion · borneo · eco entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured stop-motion / borneo, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, tender.
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