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Pöli, Mémoires d'une femme Pygmée

  • Pöli, Mémoires d'une femme Pygmée
Genre : Biography
Type : Documentary
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv, Literature
Year of production : 2011
Format : Feature
Running time : 60 (in minutes)
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Yaounde, Cameroon.
Amandine find a book in the market : the diary of a Baka midwife born in the 30's.
For thousands of years, Pygmies have excited our imaginations...
But for the first time, a Baka woman speaks from inside.
Births, marriages, deforestation, hunting now prohibited...
She decides to go and meet her. Is she still alive ?

Are pygmies still alive ?

Director: Jean Daniel Bécache

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Yaounde, Cameroon.
Amandine find a book in the market : the diary of a Baka midwife born in the 30's.
For thousands of years, Pygmies have excited our imaginations...
But for the first time, a Baka woman speaks from inside.
Births, marriages, deforestation, hunting now prohibited...
She decides to go and meet her. Is she still alive ?

Are pygmies still alive ?

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