Movie

The Silence of the Forest

Le silence de la forêt

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

Didier Ouénangaré

Director

Bassek Ba Kobhio

Screenplay

Bassek Ba Kobhio

Novela

Étienne Goyemide

Status

Released

Release date

19/05/2003

Original language

French