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Doomireew Films.
New Yorker Films.
Burkina Faso. Direction de la cinématographie nationale
Centre Cinématographique Marocain.
Cinétéléfilms (Firm)
Films de la Terre Africaine.
New Yorker Video (Firm)
Sembène, Ousmane, 1923-2007.
Coulibaly, Fatoumata.
Diarra, Maimouna Helene.
Traoré, Salimata.
Zeïda, Dominique.
Compaoré, Mah.
Dao, Aminata.
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| Material type: |
DVD-Video |
| Subject: |
Africa -- Drama.
Female circumcision -- Africa -- Drama.
Mothers and daughters -- Africa -- Drama.
Asylum, Right of -- Africa -- Drama.
Feature films.
Foreign films -- Senagal.
Melodrama.
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| Language: |
Dyula |
| Publisher: |
[New York, N.Y.] : New Yorker Video, [2007] |
| Description: |
2 videodiscs (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet. |
| ISBN: |
1567304702 9781567304701 |
| Notes: |
Title from container. |
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Originally produced as a motion picture in 2004. |
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Special features: "The making of Moolaadé" featurette; interviews and additional footage; deluxe collector's booklet; theatrical trailer. |
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Fatoumata Coulibaly, Maïmouna Hélène Diarra, Salimata Traoré, Dominique T. Zeïda, Mah Compaoré, Aminata Dao. |
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DVD, region 1, letterbox (16:9, enhanced) presentation; Dolby Digital. |
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Jula and French dialogue with optional English subtitles. |
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Director of photography, Dominique Gentil ; editor, Abdellatif Raïss ; music, Boncana Maïga ; production designer, Joseph Kpobly. |
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National Society of Film Critics: Best Foreign Language Film. |
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| 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. |