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Original name: Sauvages
English name: Savages
Year: 2024
Run time: 87 minutes
Language: French
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Colour
Country: Switzerland, France, Belgium
Director: Claude Barras
Producer: Nicolas Burlet
Cast: Babette de Coster, Martin Verset, Laëtitia Dosch, Benoît Poelvoorde, Pierre-Isaïe Duc
Screenplay: Catherine Paillé, Claude Barras
Cinematographer: Simon Filliot
Head Animator: Antony Elworthy
Editor: Anne-Laure Guégan, Claude Barras
Music Composer: Charles de Ville, Nelly Tungang
Head of Puppet Making: Grégory Beaussart
Head of Props: Delphine Daumaas
Production Company: Nadasdy Film
World Sales: Goodfellas
Born in 1973, in Sierre, Claude Barras is a Swiss director and producer. Son and grandson of farmers, he studied illustration for children’s books at the Emile Cohl school, anthropology and digital image at Lulière University in Lyon and then 3D Infographics at Lausanne School of Art. After his studies he co-directed Banquise with Cédric Louis, his first animated short film, selected for Cannes Official Competition in 2006. Claude Barras then worked with the animation collective, Helium Films, producing and directing some ten animated short films which were selected for and won prizes in many festivals. He also teaches animation at the Geneva School of Applied Arts and the Ecole de la Poudrière in Valence.
In Borneo, at the edge of the tropical forest, Keria is given a baby orangutan that has been rescued from the oil palm plantation where her father works. At the same time, her young cousin Selaï has come to live with them, seeking refuge from the conflict between his nomadic family and the logging companies. Together, Keria, Selaï and the little ape will battle the destruction of their ancestral forest home, now under greater threat than ever. But for Keria, the fight will also allow her to discover the truth of her own origins.
