2011 • 15' • French
Director(s): Sarah Carpentier • Producer(s): Grand Angle Productions • Coproducer(s): France Télévisions • Format(s): HD
This is the story of a heroine such as you read of in novels. An elderly English woman, who chose, 60 years ago, to set down her bags in a corner of the Zambian bush. Sheila has since swapped her Labrador for a 3-tonne pet and she laughs at our surprise! Sheila has been a racing driver, dairy farmer, nurse… but, above all, she has built the biggest Chimpanzee sanctuary in the world. At Chimfunchi, they take in apes saved from the claws of the poachers and they try to re-educate them to live in a group and in semi-freedom. There’s Peaceful Pal, Ravenous Rita and Yabbering Yussa. Sheila and the carers at the centre know the first names of their 120 lodgers as if they were their own children…
