The Forest (Le silence de la forêt) 21 years old

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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The Forest Cast

Name	Character
Eriq Ebouaney He was 35, now 57 years old	as Gonaba
Nadège Beausson-Diagne She was 30, now 52 years old	as Simone

The Forest Crew

Name	Department