
Naledi: A Baby Elephant's Tale
2016

Representation Score
Fair
1987
Director
Petar Lalović
Runtime
100 minutes
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The film functions as a naturalistic study of exclusion and unconventional kinship. By focusing on animal subjects, it bypasses human-centric social categories like race and ethnicity entirely. Its strength lies in portraying the 'outsider' status of a rejected piglet. The narrative subverts traditional familial structures through interspecies adoption, offering a unique perspective on survival. However, the work lacks an explicit socio-political framework. Without human-centric narratives or identity-based representation, it cannot engage with broader progressive social themes.
Category Breakdown
The film explores interspecies companionship between a roe deer and her fawn as they shelter a rejected piglet. While this disrupts biological kinship models, it does not explicitly depict non-traditional gender identities.
The narrative centers on maternal instincts, particularly the rejection and subsequent nurturing by alternative maternal figures. It focuses on instinctual survival rather than traditional human gender hierarchies.
As a documentary focused on animal subjects like boars and roe deer, concepts of race and ethnicity are not applicable. The film does not engage with human social constructs related to race or ethnicity.
The film presents a nuanced view of systemic exclusion by framing nature as indifferent or cruel. It avoids a traditional, moralistic view of natural law in favor of survival.
The protagonist, Gile Baksuz, is defined by his status as a biological outlier. The narrative grants him ability to act as he challenges the norms of his species through survival.
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Official Synopsis
It is a love story. When the twelve-breasted boar's sow farrows thirteen piglets, not having enough "sucking space" for the thirteenth, she rejects it and for the most part such piglets die. This drama from the world of animals paints the harshness of nature to the unwanted "thirteenth piglet", which we named Gile Baksuz (Gile Bad Luck). The rejected piglet is taken and given shelter by another species - a roe and her fawn...

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