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Titre:
Finzan (a Dance for the Heroes) [digital video].
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PUBDATE:
2015
GVPL_PUBLICATION_INFO:
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2015.
Description matérielle:
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 112 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Résumé:
In Finzan, Cheick Oumar Sissoko has skillfully crafted a film which raises one of the most important issues of African rural life, the status of women, in a style accessible to every villager. Finzan tells the story of two women's rebellion. Nanyuma, a young widow defies her brother-in-law, the village fool, when he asserts his traditional right to "inherit" her. Fili, a young woman sent from the city by her conservative father, is brutally "circumcised" by village women, scandalized by her refusal to submit to this ancient ritual. Sissoko weaves these two stories together into a painfully realistic picture of village society, tragically unable to free itself from the past."A passionate and convincing plea for the emancipation of African women." — New York Times. "Bracing, wholly exhilarating... dedicated to the African woman." — Village Voice. "An important film an enriching discovery for any American audience." — Louis Malle.
Note générale:
Title from title frames.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Genre:
LANGUAGE:
Bambara
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Accès électronique:
Access immediately on Kanopy