Song from the Forest

Opening Screening

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Diretor

Twenty-five years after he followed the hint of a song heard on the radio, the American ethno-musicologist Louis Sarno went to the Bayaka pygmy tribe in the Central African Republic and never came back. Integrated with the local culture, he formed a family and dedicated himself to musical research, recording more than a thousand hours of songs that he donated to an English museum. Honoring an old promise he made to his son Samedi (age 13), he takes him to visit the USA. They visit Sarno’s brother and also the filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, his friend from university. Despite the radical differences of this environment, Samedi feels at ease. Meanwhile, his father is the one made uncomfortable by this return to his roots.