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The Last Nomads of Sarawak
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The Last Nomads of Sarawak

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In the rainforests of Sarawak, Borneo, the Penan people are among the last hunter-gatherer groups still holding on to a semi-nomadic life in the forest. The film follows headman Guman Megut and his family as they navigate the pressures closing in on their world: logging concessions, palm oil plantations, and government resettlement programs that push families out of the jungle and into fixed villages. Scenes of blowpipe hunting, sago processing, and forest camps sit alongside interviews that lay out what is being lost as the old knowledge of the land goes unused by younger generations drawn to towns and wage work. The film does not frame this as a simple villain story: it shows a community weighing survival against tradition, some members leaving for schools and jobs while others, like Guman Megut, choose to stay. What emerges is a portrait of a culture at the exact hinge point between two ways of living, with the rainforest itself shrinking in the background of nearly every shot.