Ahô: The Forest People

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Ahô: The Forest People
FrenchAhô... au coeur du monde primitif
Directed byFrançois Floquet
Daniel Bertolino
Written byFrançois Floquet
Daniel Bertolino
Georges Perec
Produced byFrançois Floquet
Daniel Bertolino
Narrated byGeorges Perec
CinematographyFrançois Boucher
Edited byFrançois Arnaud
Pierre Larocque
Production
company
Via le Monde
Distributed byLes Films Mutuels
Release date
  • November 20, 1975 (1975-11-20)
Running time
91 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

Ahô: The Forest People (French: Ahô... au coeur du monde primitif) is a 1975 Canadian documentary film, directed by François Floquet and Daniel Bertolino.[1] 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.[1]

The film won the

Canadian Film Award for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 27th Canadian Film Awards in 1976.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Phyllis Platt, "Daniel Bertolino's and François Floquet's Ahô... au coeur du monde primitif". Cinema Canada, December 1975/January 1976. pp. 46-47.
  2. ^ Les Wedman, "'Lies' named Canada's best at Film Awards". Windsor Star, October 25, 1976. p. 18.

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