ADIEU SAUVAGE
Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento | Belgium 2023 | 90 min. | Spanish, French, Kakwa with English subtitles
SATURDAY, 18.05. | 5 pm
De France, Saal 1 | TICKETS
Filmmaker Guataquira Sarmiento resides in Belgium when he reads about a wave of suicides among the Cácuas indigenous community in Colombia. To investigate the causes, he travels to the rainforest where he meets Laureano, who introduces him to the Cácuas’ way of life. The two men talk about perceptions of love, loneliness and community, Western influences, and the disappearance of indigenous cosmologies. Through their conversations and Sergio’s stay in the village, the filmmaker starts to reconnect with his own indigenous identity.
ADIEAU SAUVAGE is an introspective autoethnography that resembles a rite-de-passage and, like an emotional stock-taking of community’s heritage, reminds us of what it means to be human and what constitutes humanity.
Director: Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento
Cinematography: David Garcia
Editing: Noé Bries Silva
Sound: Nicolas Pommier
Production: Fox the Fox
presented by
SCREENINGS AND AWARDS
Cinéma du réel, France
Ann Arbor, USA
DOK.fest München, Allemagne
Etonnants voyageurs, France
DOC-Cévennes, France
BELDOCS, Serbie
Brussels international film festival, Belgique
Soleluna, Italie
Galway Film Fleadh, Irlande
FaitoDoc, Italie
Etats Généraux du Film Documentaire de Lussas, France
Festival de cinéma de Douarnenez, France
Festival Biarritz Amérique latine
Zurich Film Festival, Suisse
EDOC Festival, Equateur
Festival Jean Carmet, France
Le chien qui aboie- Panorama du cinéma colombien, France
La PROVINZIALE – Filmfest Eberswalde, Allemagne
Festival international du film documentaire d’Amazonie
Astra film festival, Roumanie
Festival International du film des droits humains de Guadeloupe
Rendezvous With Madness Festival, Canada
Message to Man, Russie
BIOGRAPHY
Born in Bogota on April 5, 1987. Sergio left Colombia when he was 19 to continue his education in Europe. He studied fine arts in France for three years then entered the IAD film school in Belgium (Institut des Arts de Diffusion). In 2018 he finished his master’s degree with his graduation film “Simon cries”.
“Adieu, Sauvage” is his first feature-length documentary.
