The Silence of the Forest
Directed by Bassek Ba Kobhio, Didier OuénangaréA 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 rain forest hunter-gatherers should perhaps be called by their own ethnonym, Aka, MoAka (sing.) and BaAka (pl.)
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The Silence of the Forest was released on May 19, 2003.
The Silence of the Forest was directed by Bassek Ba Kobhio, Didier Ouénangaré.
The Silence of the Forest has a runtime of 1h 33m.
The Silence of the Forest was produced by Guillaume de Seille, Annie Izoungou, Charles Mensah, Abderrahmane Sissako.
The key characters in The Silence of the Forest are Gonaba (Ériq Ebouaney), Simone (Nadège Beausson-Diagne), Kali (Sonia Zembourou).
The Silence of the Forest is a Drama, Adventure film.
The Silence of the Forest has an audience rating of 6.5 out of 10.