We Are the Fruits of the Forest

Plot

The Indigenous Bunong practice agriculture by hand and end up in conflict with Cambodia's lucrative trade in CO2 certificates, losing the forest of whose ownership they have no conception. Now and then, split screen. A visual firework display.

About We Are the Fruits of the Forest

We Are the Fruits of the Forest (French: Nous Sommes les Fruits de la Forêt) is a 2025 Bunong-language documentary film directed by Cambodian-French filmmaker Rithy Panh, which follows the lives of ethnic minorities in Cambodia's mountainous regions over four years. The film a Cambodia-France co-production, had its World Premiere at the 38th Tokyo International Film Festival on 30 October 2025 in International competition, where it won the Special Jury Prize.

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