Projection débat du documentaire : "LES RESCAPÉS"

Through film, we will show you the process of bonding with and domesticating the young wild boar piglets that have survived. We filmed at sanctuaries in France and Spain.

In most cases, these are piglets who have been orphaned as a result of hunting. In France, the law classifies the wild boar as a ‘non-domestic’ species. Furthermore, the animal is no longer regarded for its own qualities, but for those attributed to it by the hunting industry: namely, as game, classified as a pest and therefore perpetually hunted.

Yet it behaves like a domestic animal thanks to its extraordinary intelligence. Indeed, the wild boar is an intelligent, playful, sensitive and social animal. We will describe this process of ‘domesticating the wild’, as well as the resulting interactions with the people or carers who take them in.
The wild boar can become a loyal companion and form a deep, affectionate bond with humans. It possesses a sense of self-awareness and needs to forge close social bonds with its own kind and with the humans who care for it. They are sensitive to the level of attention humans give them. We shall see how these grand displays of friendship and these spontaneous outpourings of affection manifest themselves.
These are accounts – marvellous stories of friendship – the sort one might experience only once in a lifetime.
It is terrible to possess such intelligence and sensitivity, yet to be so unloved and mistreated. No doubt because they are misunderstood.
The aim, therefore, is to offer the opportunity to get to know them so that we may better understand, love and respect them. And also to learn more about the impressive abilities of this wild animal.
It is the last great mammal of our forests, splendidly free, which deserves to be recognised for what it is and what it contributes to the forest and the ecosystem.

What if it weren’t the wild boar crossing the road, but the road crossing the forest?

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