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The Silence of the Forest

The Silence of the Forest (2003)

6.3 | 19 May 2003 | Drama Adventure

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.)

Featured Crew

Didier Ouénangaré Director
Bassek Ba Kobhio Director
Bassek Ba Kobhio Writer
Étienne Goyemide Novel
Didier Ouénangaré Writer
Marcel Bealieu Writer
Manu Dibango Original Music Composer
Pierre-Olivier Larrieu Director of Photography
Joseph Licidé Editor

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