L'Arbre de l'authenticité

On the edge of the primary forest of the Congo Basin, the second largest in the world, the remains of a research centre dedicated to tropical agriculture reveal in three parts the weight of the colonial past and its links with climate change.

Paul Panda Farnana, an agricultural engineer and the first Congolese civil servant to work for the Belgian administration, Abiron Bernaert, a Flemish man in charge of palm oil production during the Second World War, and a three-hundred-year-old tree that has become a national symbol in the heart of the forest, tell their stories...
 
A powerful analysis of a chapter in Belgium's colonial history, whose climatic consequences are still felt today, through a sumptuous, brilliantly written audio and visual meditation.

Rightholder: marek@twentyninestudio.net