NR
6.0
·2003
·93m
The Silence of the Forest
Summary
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, Writer
Bassek Ba Kobhio
Director, Writer
Didier Ouénangaré
Novel
Étienne Goyemide
Writer
Marcel Bealieu
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Media
Status:
Released
Original Language:
French
Budget:
$0.00
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$0.00
Keywords
africa
central african republic
aka people
