Adieu Sauvage

Since the 2000s, several waves of suicides have followed one another in the Amerindian population of the Colombian Amazon. First-time feature director Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento discovered that men and women commit suicide because of heartbreak: women leave men for “whites” and men do not know how to give the love that women have learned in the city and that they now expect. It is through romantic love, the most important expression of Western culture, that we see the damage of Westernization in the region. Being himself a descendant of an almost extinct indigenous community, Sarmiento went to meet them to talk about their sadness and their love, believing that they had something in common. They welcomed him and during his trip, he questioned his own identity. With gentleness and tenderness, they helped him answer this new quest and showed me what it is to be indigenous. The suicide epidemic, this first starting point, very quickly became an emotional x-ray of a community whose 'whites' in the region think that the Indian feels nothing because he does not express himself like them and, in his language, there are no words to show feelings. Is it possible that a whole people, the Cácuas Indians, feel nothing, have no feelings and no words to speak of love? This screening is part of Doc Screen, an initiative run by Scottish Documentary Institute (SDI) in partnership with Filmhouse. Supported by Film Hub Scotland, part of the BFI’s Film Audience Network, awarding funding on behalf of Screen Scotland and the BFI National Lottery.DocumentaryPT1H32M152025-08-06

Laureano Gallego Lopez

Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento

Angelina Gallego

Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento

Gladys Brookfield-Hampson

Micha Wald

Anne Fredon

Alexander Weiss

Adieu Sauvage"Adieu Sauvage"

Showtimes

August 6, 5:45 pm