Film · Drama, Adventure
The Silence of the Forest (2003)
★ 6.3 · 3 votes1 h 33 minDrama, Adventure2003
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
- Bassek Ba Kobhio, Didier Ouénangaré
- Writers
- Marcel Bealieu, Didier Ouénangaré, Bassek Ba Kobhio
- Country
- France
- Language
- French
- Release date
- May 19, 2003
- Original title
- Le silence de la forêt
Cast
Ériq EbouaneyGonaba
Nadège Beausson-DiagneSimone- Sonia ZembourouKali
Philippe MoryThe Prefect
