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The Forest

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Original title

Le silence de la forêt

Year

2003

Running time

93 min.

Country

Central African Rep.

Director

Bassek Ba Kobhio, Didier Ouenangare

Screenwriter

Bassek Ba Kobhio, Marcel Beaulieu, Étienne Goyemide, Didier Ouenangare

Cast

Music

Manu Dibango

Cinematography

Pierre-Olivier Larrieu

Producer

arte France Cinéma

Genre

Drama

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 rain forest hunter-gatherers should perhaps be called by their own ethnonym, Aka, MoAka (sing.) and BaAka (pl.)

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The Forest

2003

Bassek Ba Kobhio, Didier Ouenangare