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🎬 Award-winning feature documentary · Extended Cut with the never-before-shown Nigeria chapter.
THE FILM
Human rights activist Diáka Salena Koroma (Sierra Leone) and Spanish ethnologist Joan Riera travel across four African countries (South Sudan, Angola, Cameroon and Nigeria) to communities living between centuries-old traditions and a rapidly changing world: the Lotuko, whose 500-year-old villages deserve World Heritage status, and the Larim of the Mboya Valley. The last 250 Cuepe and the hidden Ngendelengo in Angola’s remote south. The Baka in Cameroon’s rainforest and the Dupa of the Vokre Mountains. The Yoruba, the Aguda and the Nupe in Nigeria.
Between tribal conflict, colonial legacy and the climate crisis, the film gives a voice to people who are rarely heard, and follows Diáka’s own journey back to cultural roots that slavery and colonization tried to erase.
WHY FREE?
This film exists because people in some of the most remote regions on earth opened their villages, homes and lives to us. We want everyone to be able to watch it, above all the communities who are part of it. No paywall, no ads, no borders.
CHAPTERS
00:00:00 – Opening: The Last Places
00:04:33 – South Sudan: The Lotuko
00:12:03 – South Sudan: Toposa & the Larim
00:17:21 – A Missing Perspective: Diáka Joins the Journey
00:28:00 – Angola: Luanda & the Last Cuepe
00:37:06 – Angola: The Hidden Ngendelengo
00:42:17 – Angola: The Onkokwa Valley & the Himba
00:49:24 – Diáka’s Story: Her Fight to End FGM
00:54:05 – Cameroon: Into the Baka Forest
00:59:09 – Nigeria: Lagos, Yoruba & the Aguda Quarter
01:08:18 – The Jengi: Ritual of the Baka
01:10:08 – Nigeria: The Nupe
01:13:06 – Farewell to the Forest
01:14:54 – The Idool Kingdom
01:20:27 – The Vokre Mountains
01:22:31 – Going Solo: Path to the Roots
01:32:32 – The Dupa: Becoming a Queen
CREW
Director: Markus Mauthe, nature photographer & longtime Greenpeace ambassador
Cinematography: Nick Platzer
With: Diáka Salena Koroma & Joan Riera
Sound Design: Carlos Cortés Navarrete (Academy Award winner, “Sound of Metal”)
Music: Markus Reuter & Wolfgang Gruner
A NIX.Film production
🏆 AWARDS & FESTIVALS
SEVIFF • Sevilla Indie Film Festival 2026: Bronze Award, Best Documentary Feature · Winner, Best Director (Markus Mauthe)
BARCIFF • Barcelona Indie Filmmakers Festival 2026: Official Selection
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