80,000 years of wisdom. One documentary. Zero chill about colonialism.
British actor Michael York narrates filmmaker Paula Ely's thought-provoking examination of the San people of southern Africa, a culture rooted in the Kalahari Desert that's survived for some 80,000 years but now faces all-out extinction. Also known as Bushmen, these inherently peaceful people are now grappling with the encroachment of modern society. In the process, their ancestral ways are vanishing.
Direction
Ely lets silence speak louder than narration ever could.
Cinematography
Kalahari landscapes that humble every pixel in your screen.
Director
Paula Ely
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The San's click languages contain phonemes found almost nowhere else on Earth—entire sound worlds dying with displacement.
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