The Silence of the Forest
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A film about the difficulty for even the most well-intentioned person to know and respect another culture. In this case, the problem is so acute that there is even heated debate over what to call that 'other.' The subtitles in the film use the familiar word 'pygmies,' a relatively pejorative European term; the Bantu or villagers' expression for the same group, Babingas, carries similar negative connotations. These highly specialized, tropical rainforest hunter-gatherers should perhaps be called by their own ethnonym, Aka, MoAka (sing.) and BaAka (pl.)
Status: Released
Released Date: 2003-01-01
Runtime: 93 mins
Director: Didier Ouénangaré, Bassek Ba Kobhio
Writer: Bassek Ba Kobhio, Didier Ouénangaré, Marcel Bealieu
Spoken language: Français,
Genres: Drama, Adventure
Original title: The Silence of the Forest
Production Companies: ARTE France Cinéma, Centre National du Cinéma, Les Films Terre Africaine
Production Countries: Cameroon, Central African Republic, France, Gabon
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