Watch The Silence of the Forest (2003) Online

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.) Read More

Watch The Silence of the Forest online. Featuring Ériq Ebouaney and Nadège Beausson-Diagne, The Silence of the Forest is classified as Drama and Adventure genre movie with an average rating across the web of 6. It is available for streaming online in the UK The movie was filmed in Cameroon and was released on 2003. The Silence of the Forest was directed by Bassek Ba Kobhio,Didier Ouénangaré. Read Less