Terrible Jungle // Welcome to the Jungle (2020)

1h 31 min | Adventure, comedy | France
dir.: Hugo Benamozig, David Caviglioli
audio: French, Chinese, Portuguese
subtitles: Romanian
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Dedienne, Alice Belaïdi
Adventure, comedy – France – 2020 – 1h 31 min

The film will be preceded by CineTalks, a discussion with Irina Margareta Nistor about the film, moderated by Andreea Pietroșel (30 minutes). Access to the site starting 5:30 PM. Wearing a face mask (medical or non-medical) during the entire event and using hand sanitizer upon arrival to the site are MANDATORY!

Synopsis: French Guyana, not so long ago. Eliott, a young and naive anthropology researcher, goes on an expedition to study the Otopis, a mysterious tribe from the Amazon rainforest. It is also an opportunity for him to get away from the grip of his possessive mother, Chantal de Bellabre, an ethnologist hated by the profession for her biased and cold-hearted practices. Arriving in the forest Elliot realizes the Otopis are not the “good savages” he had imagined. Alcoholic, violent, crooked: they will turn his expedition into real hell in the jungle. Fortunately, Chantal, consumed by remorse and worried about her son, decides to abandon her own expedition and goes looking for him in the jungle, with the help of the not so helpful Lieutenant-Commander Raspailles and his men.

Awards: Presented in the Official Selection at Festival de l’Alpe d’Huez (2020).