The Silence of the Forest

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2003

DramaAdventure

1 hour 33 minutes

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.)

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Original NameLe silence de la forêt (The Silence of the Forest)

StatusReleased: 22 years ago
January 1, 2003

LanguageFrançais

Spoken LanguagesFrançais,

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