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Moolaadé [digital videodisc] / Doomireew Films ; New Yorker Films presents a Direction de la Cinématographie Nationale (Burkina Faso)/Centre Cinématographique Marocain (Maroco)/Cinétélé Films (Tunisia)/Les Films de la Terre Africaine (Cameroun) co-production with contribution from La Commission Européenne: Fonds European de Développement du Ministère des Affaires Etrangères et du Ministère de la Culture ... ; written and directed by Ousmane Sembene.

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[New York, N.Y.] : New Yorker Video, [2007]

Female circumcision -- Africa -- Drama.

Mothers and daughters -- Africa -- Drama.

Asylum, Right of -- Africa -- Drama.

Motion pictures, Senegalese.

Africa -- Drama.

2 videodiscs (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.

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.

National Society of Film Critics: Best Foreign Language Film.

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