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The Silence of the Forest

2003-01-01
6
fr 93m
DramaAdventure
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.)

Director

Bassek Ba Kobhio

Director

Didier Ouénangaré

Writer

Marcel Bealieu

Writer

Didier Ouénangaré

Writer

Bassek Ba Kobhio

Novel

Étienne Goyemide

africa central african republic aka people

Status

Released

Countries

  • Cameroon
  • Central African Republic
  • France
  • Gabon

Companies

  • ARTE France Cinéma
  • Centre National du Cinéma
  • Les Films Terre Africaine