Adieu Sauvage [Farewell Savage], a debut feature documentary (filmed in black and white) directed by Colombian-born Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento, will be screened as part of the African Diaspora International Film Festival (ADIFF) tonight, Monday, December 4, at 8:10pm. The screening takes place at the Teachers College Chapel, Columbia University, 525 West 120th Street, New York, New York.…
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.