The Silence of the Forest

The Silence of the Forest

1h 33m 2003 Drama, Adventure Cameroon, Central African Republic, France, Gabon
Budget: - Revenue: -

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

Writer

Bassek Ba Kobhio, Didier Ouénangaré, Marcel Bealieu