Safari

Grown-up people who see killing wild animals in the savanna as comparable to an annual skiing holiday. In their tropical outfits, they talk about the rituals they perform before taking a shot, and the feeling of release when they find a cadaver. Every year, they can be found in the wildlife reservations of South Africa and Namibia, clutching a beer, waiting for hours having paid to shoot a lion, a zebra or a giraffe. What motivates these people?

Ulrich Seidl: "With Safari I wasn't interested in showing the wealthy, the aristocrats, the sheikhs and the oligarchs hunting big game in Africa, but rather the normal, the ordinary hunter. For many years now, hunting in Africa has been affordable for the average citizen of the west. I set out to discover and portray what motivates such people to hunt, and why they can even become obsessed by it. But along the way the film also became a film about killing. About killing for pleasure without ever facing danger, about killing as a kind of emotional liberation."