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MOOLAADE
Directed by Ousmane Sembene
Senegal/France/Burkina Faso, 2004 124 minutes In Bambara and French w/ English subtitles |
"Magnificently beautiful. A film of great urgency. A strong, true and useful film... that resonates with life." - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
CO-SPONSORED BY THE INTERNATIONAL WRITING PROGRAM, |
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MOOLAADE PANEL DISCUSSION A panel discussion will follow the May 7 screening. Facilitated by WISE director Christine Brus, panelists include UI faculty members Sandy Barkan and Anny Curtius, as well as UI-based physician Maureen McCue. The 8 p.m. panel discussion will be held in the Iowa Room (335 IMU) and is free and open to the public.
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FILM SUMMARY
With his rousing polemic directed against the still common African practice of female circumcision, 81-year-old Ousmane Sembene, considered the founding father of African cinema, demonstrates a strong feminist consciousness that has marked several of his films over the past four decades. In a small African village, four young girls who face ritual "purification" flee to the household of Colle Ardo Gallo Sy, a strong-willed woman who has managed to shield her own teenage daughter from mutilation. Colle invokes the time-honored custom of moolaade (sanctuary) to protect the fugitives, and tension mounts as the ensuing stand-off pits Colle against village traditionalists (both male and female) and endangers the prospective marriage of her daughter. A socially conscious film set within a colorful, vibrant tapestry of village life. A.O. Scott of The New York Times writes, "To skip Ousmane Sembene's Moolaade would be to miss an opportunity to experience the embracing, affirming, world-changing potential of humanist cinema at its finest." FILM LINKS |
SHOWTIMES
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Wednesday, May 11: *PANEL DISCUSSION FOLLOWS THIS SCREENING.
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