Award-winning Claude Barras (My Life as a Zucchini) creates a beautiful stop-motion animated feature set at the edge of a tropical rainforest in modern-day Borneo. 11-year-old Kéria cares for an orphaned orangutan who was rescued from the palm oil plantation where her father works. Soon after, her young cousin Selaï arrives, seeking refuge from the conflict between his nomadic Penan people and the logging companies. Together, Kéria, Selaï, and the baby orangutan set out on their own to battle deforestation and save their endangered ancestral home and its inhabitants. For Kéria, the fight doesn’t stop there when she also discovers the truth of her family’s past. This anti-colonial, ecological fable speaks passionately and joyfully to children about the values of nature and traditional ways as well as the need for collective resistance to the threats to their destruction. –DG

Age 8+