Maa-yiem, the extraordinary story of Jordi Sabater Pi. Spain, 59 min, 2022. Turkana Films.

Synopsis

Primatologist Jordi Sabater Pi landed in Equatorial Guinea at the age of 17, fleeing the post-war period.

Dazzled by Africa, notebook in hand, he entered the kingdom of the pygmies, living with the chimpanzees. His field notebooks revealed for the first time to the world behaviors that changed forever what was known until then about these great primates. In 1966 he discovered Snowflake (Floquet de Neu), an albino gorilla that would become an icon.