Wild Fruits

16th century. After a period overseas in the Antarctic France, Jean Aurand finds refuge as a servant in the house of French philosopher Michel de Montaigne, where a series of fantastical events change the lives of these two men forever.

In this queer fantasy that conjures up memories of early Bertrand Mandico, Eric Rohmer's Perceval le Gallois and Med Hondo's West Indies, Brazilian filmmaker Bernardo Zanotta contrasts the brutality of the colonists with the sensuality of Jean Aurand's relationship with the natives. We can only dream of the course history would have taken if the servant's pacifist, non-binary approach had prevailed over colonial violence.

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