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Moolaadé

Directed by Ousmane Sembène
2004
Senegal
124 minutes
M
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An impassioned, uplifting and rousing story about one courageous mother who fights against the practice of genital mutilation.
Collè Ardo (Fatoumata Coulibaly) is the only one in her village who has refused to allow her 15-year-old daughter to be circumcised. One day, four little girls go to the woman's house and ask her for moolaadé – or protection, because they don't want to suffer the ordeal either. The woman holds a rope at the entrance to her hut that no one will be able to pass through. The village is in turmoil, united against Collè Ardo as she tries to resist and assert her own rights – and those of the girls.

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Sun 16 Jun
10:30am
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Assisted Listening
Wheelchair
Subtitled
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Program Strand
Ousmane Sembene Retrospective
Original Title
Protection
Year
2004
Classification
M
Country
Senegal, Burkina Faso, Morocco, Tunisia, Cameroon, France
Language
In Bambara and French with English subtitles
Director
Ousmane Sembène
Producer
Thierry Lenouvel, Ousmane Sembène
Cast
Fatoumata Coulibaly, Maïmouna Hélène Diarra, Salimata Traoré
Screenwriter
Ousmane Sembène
Cinematographer
Dominique Gentil
Editor
Abdellatif Raïss
Genre
Africa, Focus on Women, Festival Award Winners, Cinephile, Human Rights, Retrospective, Cannes Selected
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