Tawai: A Voice from the Forest

2017
1h 41m

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7.3/10

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The Penan of Borneo are amongst the last of the hunter gatherers who still live a nomadic existence, flowing with the rhythms of nature, carrying all that they own on their backs. They were the last group Bruce Parry visited in the making of the BBC TV series, Tribe, and his time with them affected him deeply. Ten years on he returns to see how they are doing and to learn about finding a more balanced way to relate to each other and with the natural world.

TAWAI - A voice from the forest
A film from Bruce Parry

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Explorer Bruce Parry travels the world, living with indigenous peoples, delving deeper then ever on a journey into the heart of our collective human conscience.Explorer Bruce Parry travels the world, living with indigenous peoples, delving deeper then ever on a journey into the heart of our collective human conscience.Explorer Bruce Parry travels the world, living with indigenous peoples, delving deeper then ever on a journey into the heart of our collective human conscience.

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IMDb RATING

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In December 2016, 'Tawai' was a recipient of an Outstanding Achievement Award in Calcutta International Cult Film Festival, in India.

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"Canine and Feline Assistants: Dorian the Grey, Luna, Lola and Chingis the Brave."

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9/10

Tawai - connecting to the forest like a baby connects to a mother's breast

Tawai

A beautiful, haunting and most welcome opportunity to tune in to how the remaining few real egalitarian hunter gather societies relate to each other and their surroundings. How they live and breathe that connection and inter-relatedness, how their way of life keeps them so tightly in touch with the present moment, with each other and the soil on which they step. An insight into what we lose when we fall out of that interwoven way of life and most of all, an invitation to allow in and fully embody the heavy aching pain and frustration that our own daily actions are chipping away at these precious last living examples of true human harmony with nature. Chipping away at the resources that are the lifelines of our planet.

It is pain that we really need to face, fully open to and deeply feel. We owe it to these societies and we owe it our planet and to ourselves, to witness and be present to this process of destruction that is happening to us as one global unit.

Tawai means to feel a sense of connection to our surroundings, in a way like how a baby is connected to a mother and her breast. To know with its whole being that it needs her, that it feeds upon her and will not be able to survive without her and her love.