The Tale Of The Bushmen
a film by Pierre Mann, 64'Filming in Botswana and Namibia, Pierre Mann is part of the tradition of ethnographic documentary by Jean Rouch.
It describes a people who embody the humanity of our origins, men who continue to hunt with bows. He filmed their run-ins with the leopard and the lion and their encounter with the elephant. He witnessed the extraordinary phenomena of shamanic trances and healing rites. It was conquered by this people of hunter-gatherers, magnificent in their humanity, incapable of living anywhere but in the Kalahari.
technical data:
| duration |
64 minutes |
| camera | Pierre Mann |
| sound | Josie et Pierre Haag, Sabine Trensz |
| editing | Anne-Sophie Morel, Matthieu Boetsch, Anne Gigleux |
| music | Gilles Guigue |
| production | de visu productions |
| distribution | dora films |
| festivals | Best documentary - Enviro film - Slovaquie 2008 Public Prize - Festival nature et environnement - France 2008 Prize from Environment Minister- Native and Indigenous Film Festival Brno 2008 Czech Republic special mention - United World of Indigenous people 2008 Festival Ekofilm Prague - Czech Republic 2008 |
