Official Selection: ‘A Cry from the Forest’ Brings Cameroon’s Sacred Environmental Reckoning to the Alma Film Festival
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Alma Film Festival | March 17–22, 2026 | Las Terrenas & El Limón, Dominican Republic The Alma Film Festival proudly announces A Cry from the Forest , directed by Cameroonian filmmaker Lynno Lovert , as an Official Selection of its 2026 program. Set within an indigenous forest community confronting the consequences of unchecked exploitation, the film follows a young girl called to step into her destiny after the death of a sacred forest oracle leaves her people spiritually unprotected and physically vulnerable. As foreign explorers encroach upon ancestral land—and her own father becomes entangled in the destruction—the young protagonist must rise as the new oracle and defend what remains sacred. Blending spiritual mythology with urgent environmental realities, A Cry from the Forest explores the fragile balance between tradition and modern extraction, asking what happens when sacred knowledge systems are silenced in the name of progress. The film positions youth not only as i...