03.28.2023

"Farewell Savage" takes first prize at the Ann Arbor Film Festival

The documentary "Farewell Savage" by director Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento wins best documentary award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival.

The documentary Farewell Savage by director Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento has won the best documentary award at the prestigious Ann Arbor Film Festival. A few days earlier, on 24 March, the film - produced by Fox the Fox - had also been premiered at one of the world’s leading documentary festivals, Cinéma du Réel.

Since the 2000s, several waves of male suicide have followed one another in the Amerindian population of the Colombian Amazon. I discovered that lovesickness is often the cause. Wives leave their husbands for “white” men who think that Indians do not feel anything because they do not express their feelings in the Cacua language. Is it possible that members of the Cacua community have no feelings and no words to talk about love?

Congratulations to Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento and the whole film crew for this fine start to an international career.