Savages (2024 film)

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Savages
French Sauvages
Directed by Claude Barras
Screenplay by
  • Claude Barras
  • Catherine Paillé
Starring
  • Babette De Coster
  • Martin Verset
Music byCharles de Ville
Nelly Tungang
Production
companies
  • Nadasdy Film
  • Haut et Cort
  • Panique!
Distributed byHaut et Cort
Release date
Running time
87 minutes
Countries

Savages (French : Sauvages) is a 2024 Swiss-French-Belgian stop motion animated film directed by Claude Barras and starring Babette De Coster and Martin Verset. [1]

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Premise

Kéria (De Coster), a young girl from Switzerland, lives with her father in the Serawak province of Borneo while he works in a palm oil plantation. Her late mother had been part of the indigenous Penan people, but Kéria has little interest in this aspect of her heritage. She and her father rescue an orangutan, who comes to be known as Oshi. When Kéria's Penan cousin Selaï (Verset) is displaced from her home by deforestation and comes to live with the family, the two children and orangutan must fight back against the logging companies. [2] [3]

Cast

Production

Barras began conceptualizing Savages while on the year-long press tour for his 2016 feature film My Life as a Courgette . [4]

Release

Savages premiered out of competition in the Young Audiences section of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival on 18 May 2024. [1] [2] The film also played in competition at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival and is scheduled to screen at the 77th Locarno Film Festival, where Barras will be recognized with the Locarno Kids Award la Mobiliare. [4] [5]

Reception

Accolades

AwardCeremony dateCategoryRecipient(s)ResultRef.
Annecy International Animated Film Festival 15 June 2024 Best Feature FilmSavagesNominated [3]
European Film Awards 7 December 2024 European Animated Feature Film Pending [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Sauvages (Savages), Claude Barras' ecological fable". Cannes Film Festival. 18 May 2024. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
  2. 1 2 Roxborough, Scott. "Filmmaker Claude Barras Gets Animated With Stop-Motion Feature 'Sauvages'". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
  3. 1 2 "Sauvages". Annecy Festival. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
  4. 1 2 Ritman, Alex. "'Savages': How Claude Barras Went From His Oscar-Nominated 'Zucchini' to the Jungles of Borneo for Next Stop-Motion Epic". Variety. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
  5. "Claude Barras to Receive the Locarno Kids Award la Mobiliare at Locarno77". Locarno Film Festival. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
  6. Roxborough, Scott (9 October 2024). "European Animated Film Nominations Unveiled". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved 9 October 2024.