Moolaadé a New Yorker Films release ;Filmi Domireew Sénégal présente ; co-production Direction de la Cinématographie Nationale, Centre Cinématographique Marocain, Cinetelefilms, Les Films de la Terre Africaine ; scénario et réalisation, Sembene Ousmane [videorecording]

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Publisher number: 1567304702Publication details: [New York, N.Y.] : New Yorker Video, [2007] Description: 2 videodiscs (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([14] p. ; 18 cm.)Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

-- Senegal

LOC classification:

PQ3989.S46 M61 2010

Contents:

Special features: "The making of Moolaadé" featurette (In French with English subtitles); premiere footage; Sembene interview ; actress interviews ; about female genital mutilation; dvd credits

Disc 1. Moolaade -- Disc 2. Special features

Summary: Set in a small village, four young girls face ritual "purification" decide to flee to the household of Collé Ardo Gallo Sy, a strong-willed woman who has managed to shield her own teenage daughter from the mutilation. Collé invokes the time-honored custom of moolaadé (sanctuary) to protect the fugitives, and tension mounts as the ensuing stand-off pits Collé against village traditionalists. This endangers the prospective marriage of her daughter to the heir-apparent to the tribal throne

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CD/DVD

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Current library	Collection	Call number	Vol info	Copy number	Status	Barcode
Bishop Okullu Memorial Library (Limuru Campus) Multimedia	Fiction	PQ3989.S46 M61 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	DISC ONE	1	Not for loan	042207
Bishop Okullu Memorial Library (Limuru Campus) Multimedia	Fiction	PQ3989.S46 M61 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	DISC TWO	2	Not for loan	042208

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Originally produced as a motion picture in 2004

Special features: "The making of Moolaadé" featurette (In French with English subtitles); premiere footage; Sembene interview ; actress interviews ; about female genital mutilation; dvd credits

Disc 1. Moolaade -- Disc 2. Special features

Set in a small village, four young girls face ritual
"purification" decide to flee to the household of Collé
Ardo Gallo Sy, a strong-willed woman who has managed to
shield her own teenage daughter from the mutilation. Collé
invokes the time-honored custom of moolaadé (sanctuary) to
protect the fugitives, and tension mounts as the ensuing
stand-off pits Collé against village traditionalists. This
endangers the prospective marriage of her daughter to the
heir-apparent to the tribal throne

DVD, NTSC; region 1, letterbox (16:9, enhanced) presentation; Dolby Digital

Jula and French dialogue with optional English subtitles

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