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‘Black Butterflies’ Director David Baute on the Annecy Climate Crisis Movie: ‘We Tried to Put a Human Face to This Drama’
Playing Annecy’s talent-packed Contrechamp sidebar, ‘Black Butterflies’ is also a sign of burgeoning animation sectors around the world.
David Baute ’s searing animated climate crisis drama “ Black Butterflies ” (“Mariposas Negras”) bows to audiences at Annecy this week, competing in its Contrechamp strand alongside Isabel Herguera title “Sultana’s Dream,” . It was more a job of grooming than conceiving new sequences, we tried to incorporate those other layers that the film has, that make the viewer approach the drama of these women in a frank way, knowing the harsh reality faced by those who lose their origin, since they’ll always be emigrants with no place to return, their homes have disappeared,” Baute tells Variety. Following protagonists Lobuin, Vanesa and Soma as they’re displaced from their serene rural lives to find their way amidst cramped urban sprawls, the hopeless trudge toward uncertainty and yearning weighs heavy on screen from the first gut-wrenching separation to the simmering anxiety of forging a fresh start.
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