Independent filmmaker, Thierry Knauff is Bachelor of Arts (Romance Philology) at the Catholic University of Leuven and a degree in Film Production at the Higher National Institute of Performing Arts (INSAS). Knauff is founder of the Belgium film production company Les Films du Sablier.
His documentaries Baka (1995) and Wild Blue (2000) won several awards.
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This anthropological film observes and exhalts the life of the Baka Pygmies who live in the forests of South-East Cameroon. The children in the photo assign a word that designates the gesture of the bird landing on the branch. When the berries of the branch have been eaten, the bird sings the tree thanks. Then he flew to other trees.
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The diary of a journey, “Wild Blue” is a succession of life fragments.Punctuated by female voices, this film embraces children, trees and winds, gathering them as musical motifs....
