« Before,
we were poor but we didn't know it because we lived contentedly in
the forest »
Discovering the outside world, the
Bagyeli Pygmies have seen that they are very poor.
Their hunting
culture allowed them to live in the jungle of South Cameroon for
thousands of years, but outside they were considered like animals or
slaves by a society dominated by farmers.
Angeline,
Marcelline and Pascal belong to that generation who have discovered
cars, solid houses and money, and strongly resent that they don't
have right to all that.
Following their personal dreams of
integration, they encounter the complexities of change that the real
world imposes on hunters-gatherers
And
when the Exxon pipeline arrived in the Pygmie's forest aided by the
World Bank, our bureaucracy is worse with them than the farmers.
In
allowing a close and intimate shooting for seven months, Angeline,
Marcelline and Pascal revealed their attractive personnalities.
And from their point of view, the film tell us about a universal story : a small population that doesn't want to disappear.