Documentary
25 years ago, Louis Sarno, an American, heard a song on the radio and followed its melody into the Central Africa Jungle and stayed. He than recorded over 1000 hours of original BaAka music. Now he is part of the BaAka community and raises his pygmy son, Samedi. Fulfilling an old promise, Louis takes Samedi to America. On this journey Louis realizes he is not part of this globalized world anymore but globalization has also arrived in the rainforest. The BaAka depend on Louis for their survival. Father and son return to the melodies of the jungle but the question remains: How much longer will the songs of the forest be heard?
MOVIE COMMENTS
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Déjà le sang de mai ensemençait novembre
Looking for Modern Art: Rethinking Art History
The Shining Future
Coach Zoran and His African Tigers
Orchard Street
Operation: Jane Walk
White Man with Black Bread
Portrait of a Lone Farmer
Street Scenes in India
Kurt & Courtney
Compelled By Love
David Lynch: The Art Life
Amazon
Umoja - Wo nur Frauen das Sagen haben
God Grew Tired of Us
The Ivory Game
El precio de la risa
Tropical Rainforest
Safari
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The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos
IMDB 7.2 | Dec , 2008
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IMDB 9 | Jan , 1982
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IMDB 5.5 | Nov , 2018
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IMDB 4 | Apr , 1944
Documentary short film intended to drum up support for the Fifth War Loan Campaign. It shows a happy family in the future of 1960 enjoying the prosperity and advantages made possible by the successful prosecution of the war, and how the sacrifices of 1944 have made the world a better place.Coach Zoran and His African Tigers
IMDB 4.2 | Feb , 2014
Documentary following Serbian football coach Zoran Đorđević as he helps form South Sudan's first national football team.Orchard Street
IMDB 6.8 | Dec , 1955
This short film documents the daily life of the goings-on on Orchard Street, a commercial street in the Lower East Side New York City.Operation: Jane Walk
IMDB 4 | Mar , 2018
The war zone of a dystopian multiplayer shooting game is used to embark some urban explorers on a winter walk, avoiding the combats whenever possible, as peaceful observers, inhabitants of a digital world, which is a detailed replica of Midtown Manhattan.White Man with Black Bread
IMDB 8 | Jan , 2007
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IMDB 5 | Nov , 2013
Street Scenes in India
IMDB 0 | Feb , 1935
From the arrival of a new viceroy to street markets, this amateur film captures the diversity of life in colonial India.Kurt & Courtney
IMDB 6 | Feb , 1998
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IMDB 5.8 | Jan , 2014
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IMDB 6.9 | Feb , 2017
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IMDB 6.5 | Jan , 1997
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IMDB 9 | Dec , 2023
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IMDB 7.2 | Dec , 2006
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IMDB 7.5 | Sep , 2016
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IMDB 6 | Sep , 2017
The life of Paco Martínez Soria (1902-1982), one of the most famous and beloved Spanish actors, both on stage and screen; a comedian, a theatrical producer, an idol for the masses. A celebration of the uncommon gift of making people laugh.Tropical Rainforest
IMDB 5.2 | Feb , 1992
The story of the evolution of tropical rain forests, their recent and rapid destruction, and the intense efforts of scientists to understand them even as they disappear. This film gives viewers a better appreciation of the importance of tropical rain forests on a global scale.Safari
IMDB 6.6 | Sep , 2016
Africa. In the wild expanses, where bush-bucks, impalas, zebras, gnus and other creatures graze by the thousands, they are on holiday. German and Austrian hunting tourists drive through the bush, lie in wait, stalk their prey. They shoot, sob with excitement and pose before the animals they have bagged. A vacation movie about killing, a movie about human nature.