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The Project
20 % of the earnings flow into an educational project. Acting as representatives of their people, selected Papua are to be supported in better preparing themselves for the future. This is an important matter for the authors and they hope for broad acceptance of the DVD, which was produced exclusively through private initiative and without outside funds.
We will report on the usage of the money earned and hope to be able to give something back to the Papuans that might be of help to them for their future life on our so civilised planet: education.
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The Movie
Bronze Remi Award 40th Worldfest Independent Film Festival Houston
Parts of the globe previously only accessible to expeditions, move, in times of globalisation, ever closer for the adventure traveller and can be booked online.
The common goal of this very mixed group of holidaymakers (including a doctor, a gardener and a civil servant) is to meet one of the last remaining primitive peoples on our planet.
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Through conversations with three very different personalities from the hospitable Dani and Lani tribes we learn about the thoughts and ways of the people of this virtually untouched part of the world. They give us their views on traditions, belief, money, sexuality and partnership, and juxtaposed with the reflections of the travellers we experience the contrast of cultural perspective in the breathtaking natural scenery. Despite the efforts of the curious german travellers to gain the trust and friendship of the primitive tribe however, they remain strange visitors from another world.
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West Papua, unnoticed by the eyes of the outside world and without regard for the natural habitat of the inceasingly christianised tribes, is one of the main sources of raw materials in Indonesia. This poses the question whether the gradual growth in tourism represents a chance for the preservation of the local culture, or is itself a part of the problem.
Deep within the jungle of west Papua they are still there: The last native peoples of our planet, cut off from civilisation, and with a natural habitat that shrinks by the day.
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