Release Date

01 Jan, 2003

Runtime

01:33: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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.)

Original Title

Le silence de la forêt

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Actors

Ériq Ebouaney

Nadège Beausson-Diagne

Sonia Zembourou

Philippe Mory

Crew

Bassek Ba Kobhio

Didier Ouénangaré

Bassek Ba Kobhio

Didier Ouénangaré

Marcel Bealieu

Étienne Goyemide

Manu Dibango

Pierre-Olivier Larrieu

Joseph Licidé