The Forest(Le silence de la forêt)
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France, Cameroon, Gabon · 2003
1h 33m
Director Bassek Ba Kobhio, Didier Ouénangaré
Starring Ériq Ebouaney, Nadège Beausson-Diagne, Sonia Zembourou, Philippe Mory
Genre Drama
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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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