Les Cueilleurs de ciel
Lac Maninjao-Sumatra-Indonésie Série-Collection : Les Seigneurs des animaux

Gauthier Flauder
1995 - 26 min - 16 mm - Couleur - France

The Minang people live on the shores of Lake Maninjao inside a crater formed by three volcanoes. Three million coconut trees grow around the lake. The Minang live from this woodland wealth. They harvest it. But they have not climbed trees for many years now. To gather coconuts, they have found an ideal partner in the monkey. Bourhan is sixty and has trained monkey his whole life. In the Koto clan he is considered as a master. But Bourhan does not take monkeys anymore ; he is retired. Bourhan is old and weary, too weary to live with a monkey.
Or so he thought until his wife received an inheritance from an old aunt. The inheritance consisted of some jewels, a few pieces of furniture... and a monkey named Bobo !