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SONG FROM THE FOREST

By Michael OBERT

DECKERT DISTRIBUTION GMBH - as SALES All rights, World

Completed 2013

A modern epic between rainforest and skyscrapers.

Festivals
& Awards

SXSW 2014

Visions

- Year of production
- 2013
- Budget
- 0.3 - 0.6 M$
- Duration
- 96 mn
- Director(s)
- Michael OBERT
- Producer(s)
- Alexandre TONDOWSKI (Tondowski Films & Friends), Ira TONDOWSKI (Tondowski Films & Friends)
- Synopsis
- As a young man, American Louis Sarno heard a song on the radio that gripped his imagination. He followed the mysterious sounds all the way to the Central African rainforest and found their source with the Bayaka Pygmies, a tribe of hunters and gatherers.
  He never left.
  Today, twenty-five years later, Louis Sarno has recorded over 1,000 hours of unique Bayaka music. He is a fully accepted member of the Bayaka society and has a 13 year old son, Samedi. Once, when Samedi was a baby, he became seriously ill and Louis feared for his life. He held his son in his arms through a frightful night and made him a promise: “If you get through this, one day I’ll show you the world I come from.”
  Now the time has come to fulfill his promise, and Louis travels with Samedi from the African rainforest to another jungle, one of concrete, glass, and asphalt: New York City. Together, they meet Louis’s family and old friends, including his closest friend from college, Jim Jarmusch.
  Carried by the contrasts between rainforest and urban America, with a fascinating soundtrack and peaceful, loving imagery, their stories are interwoven to form a touching portrait of an extraordinary man, and his son.
- Beginning of shooting
- Oct 01, 2011