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THE MODEL AND THE BUSHMEN

52' (ENG, GER)

This is the story of an incredible adventure: a young woman from Norway moves into the wild and joins the last Bushmen hunters in Namibia.

Every morning, the women set out to forage and the men sneak into the bush to hunt, carrying little else but homemade bows and arrows as they walk through the wilderness. But this is a special hunt: The men are accompanied by Aleksandra Ørbeck-Nilssen. The top model, who is a trained tracker and spent years in the Namibian bush, founded the “Barefoot Academy” which follows the basic idea of the Bushmen teaching the art of survival – not for the sake of fun and thrill but to actively help to maintain the lifestyle of the earth’s first and last hunter-gatherers.