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Ahô: The Forest People (1975)

Ahô: The Forest People poster
Original title
Ahô... au coeur du monde primitif
Directed by
François Floquet, Daniel Bertolino
Genre
documentary film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 31m
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

The film visits indigenous communities living in forests around the world. It shows their daily lives and traditional ways.

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What happens

Ahô: The Forest People (French: Ahô... au coeur du monde primitif) is a 1975 Canadian documentary film, directed by François Floquet and Daniel Bertolino. The film is a portrait of various indigenous peoples around the world who still live in traditional forest or jungle settings rather than westernized towns and cities, including indigenous groups from Cameroon, Brazil, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. The film won the Canadian Film Award for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 27th Canadian Film Awards in 1976. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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