French
SwitzerlandFranceBelgium
After its presentation at Cannes, here is finally the highly anticipated new film by Swiss filmmaker Claude Barras (My Life as a Zucchini), created using impressive stop-motion animation with meticulously crafted puppets. The story unfolds in Borneo, at the edge of the rainforest. Kéria receives a baby orangutan rescued from the palm oil plantation where her father works. At the same time, her young cousin Selaï arrives to live with them, seeking refuge from the conflict between his nomadic family and the logging companies. Together, Kéria, Selaï, and the little monkey will fight against the destruction of their ancestral forest home, now more threatened than ever...