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THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING MLABRI

By Signe BYRGE SØRENSEN, Janus BILLESKOV JANSEN

Documentary - Completed 2007

- Year of production
- 2007
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- DENMARK
- Duration
- 63 mn
- Director(s)
- Signe BYRGE SØRENSEN, Janus BILLESKOV JANSEN
- ISAN
- 0000-0002-D9D9-0000-I-0000-0000-K
- Producer(s)
- Signe BYRGE SØRENSEN (Final Cut for Real)
- Synopsis
- There are only 320 Mlabri people left on this planet. They used to live as hunter- gatherers in Northern Thailand. But since the jungle disappeared, the Mlabri have begun to settle over the last generation, and eke out a meagre existence working as day-labourers. This is a decisive moment in Mlabri history. For the first time children are getting ready to leave their parents to go to boarding school in town. The parents fear that the ground will split. Will the children come back? Will the start to marry outsiders? What will happen to Mlabri language and culture?
  
  Right now everyone in the Mlabri community face the crucial questions: How does one adapt to a world full of Outsiders? How does one integrate without disappearing? The Importance of Being Mlabri is a film about the Mlabri, told by themselves, in their own language.