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The Silence of the Forest (2003)
Directed by Didier Ouénangaré, Bassek Ba Kobhio
Drama, Adventure · 1h 33m
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.)
Cast
Ériq Ebouaney
Nadège Beausson-Diagne
Philippe Mory
Crew
- Director
- Didier Ouénangaré, Bassek Ba Kobhio
- Writer
- Bassek Ba Kobhio, Didier Ouénangaré, Marcel Bealieu
- Novel
- Étienne Goyemide
- Director of Photography
- Pierre-Olivier Larrieu
- Original Music Composer
- Manu Dibango
- Editor
- Joseph Licidé
Details
- Original title
- Le silence de la forêt
- Release date
- 2003-05-19
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Genres
- Drama, Adventure
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- French, Sango
- Countries
- Cameroon, Central African Republic, France, Gabon
- Production
- ARTE France Cinéma, Centre National du Cinéma, Les Films Terre Africaine