The Silence of the Forest
2003, French. Directed by Bassek Ba Kobhio & Didier Ouénangaré.
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.)
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- French
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- Released
- 19 May 2003
- Original title
- Le silence de la forêt
- Country
- Cameroon, Central African Republic, France, Gabon
- Written by
- Bassek Ba Kobhio, Didier Ouénangaré, Marcel Bealieu
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The Silence of the Forest runs 93 minutes (1h 33m).
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The Silence of the Forest isn’t on a subscription OTT platform in India, but you can watch it free online. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Silence of the Forest?
The Silence of the Forest (2003) was directed by Bassek Ba Kobhio and Didier Ouénangaré and stars Ériq Ebouaney, Nadège Beausson-Diagne, Sonia Zembourou.