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TI  - Moolaadé
AV  - PQ3989.S46 M61  2010
PY  - 2007///]
CY  - [New York, N.Y.]
PB  - New Yorker Video
KW  - Drama
KW  - Female circumcision
KW  - Africa, Sub-Saharan
KW  - Women
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Marriage customs and rites
KW  - Mothers and daughters
KW  - Asylum, Right of
KW  - Foreign films
KW  - Senegal
KW  - Motion pictures, Senegalese
KW  - Fiction films
KW  -  Feature films
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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