Savages (2024 film)

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

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.

Cast

 * Babette De Coster as Kéria
 * Martin Verset as Selaï
 * Laetitia Dosch as Jeanne
 * Benoît Poelvoorde as Kéria's father
 * Pierre-Isaïe Duc as Kéria's grandfather
 * Michel Vuillermoz as the foreman
 * Gaël Faye
 * Sailyvia Paysan as Selaï's mother

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

Release
Savages premiered out of competition in the Young Audiences section of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival on 18 May 2024. 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.