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The Film will be presented by top African Actor, Eriq Bouaney

Eriq Ebouaney has over fifteen theatrical roles to his credit ranging from classic tragedies such as Medea to the farcical 1900, and including such modern classic as Genet's Les Bonnes, Le Roi Jones, Le Metro Fantome directed by Jean-Pierre Maurin, Koltes' Quai Ouest and more recently, Dale Wasserman's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. In 1999, Ebouaney played the lead role in Raoul Peck's Lumumba, has also worked with Cedric Klapisch, Benoit Jacquot, Jean Becker and Claire Denis and can currently be seen in the indie hit Ma Femme est une Actrice (My Wife Is an Actress) for French director Yvan Attal. (filmbug.com)

Le Silence de la Forêt (The Forest)

Didier Florent Ouenangaré / Bassek ba Kobhio / Marcel Beaulieu, Central African Republic - Cameroon,  French and Sango with English subtitles, 93 mins.

Gonaba, a school inspector n Bangui, suddenly decides to drop everything and go and live in the heart of the equatorial forest in the land of the Babinga pigmies. He wants to help them free themselves from the domination of the " tall men ", which is still a problem 40 years after the country's independence. True love awaits him there, and the voyage will also be a great initiation for him. 

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