Adieu Sauvage
Adieu Sauvage
Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento
In Colombia, the “whites” think that the Indian of Amazonia does not feel anything because there are no words in his language to express feelings. Is it possible that a whole people feel nothing and have no words to speak of love? Director Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento, himself a descendant of an almost extinct indigenous Colombian community, went to meet the Cácuas, to talk about their feelings, their loves, their loneliness. In doing so, he reconnected with his own Indianness.
With humor and tenderness, the Cácuas try to teach him what it is to be a native.
This initiatory quest is an emotional x-ray of an entire people.
★ En présence de Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento
🌿 Cinéma du Réel – Prix des Bibliothèques
Ann Arbor (USA) – Best Documentary Award
STARRING
WRITER
Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento
DIRECTOR
Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
David Garcia
SOUND
Nicolas Pommier
FILM EDITING
Noé Bries Silva
MUSIC
Clémentine Pacalet
PRODUCTION
Fox the Fox
Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento
Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento says that during his childhood his composed name showed his Amerindian origins and often earned him mockery.
Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento was born in Bogota on April 5, 1987, to a lawyer father and a mother who worked in a supermarket. Nothing predestined him for the cinema and yet, at the age of 19, he left his country for Europe and enrolled at the Fine Arts School in Poitiers with a student visa. It was during his studies that he got closer to cinema and successfully passed the entrance exam to the IAD film school in Belgium.
In 2018, his graduation film “Simon cries” was spotted on the festival circuit where it circulated extensively. It is the story of a heartbroken young man, who starts to cry his eyes out – literally. The film reveals the filmmaker’s endearing personality.
Between burlesque and sad clown, resignation and ferocity, Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento wants to highlight the feeling of sadness that is too often repressed by Latin American culture.
In “Farewell, savage”, his first feature-length documentary, Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento confronts the lovesickness of the Amerindian population of the Colombian Amazon. An ethical questioning of ethnological cinema intersects with a burlesque and sometimes pathetic personal quest, Sergio is now interested in the Man “who feels nothing”.
Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento currently lives in Brussels, awaiting regularization.
FILMOGRAPHY
2019 : Simon pleure (short)