71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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Moolaadé

Sembene Ousmane
Synopsis
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Collé Ardo, a circumcised woman, managed to help her only daughter escape from the same fate and genital mutilation. The village girls are subject to clitoral excision at the purification ritual organized every seven years. This year, four young girls have fled from the village to escape mutilation and are seeking protection from Collé. The village is a hotbed of confrontation between two kinds of value: the ?moolaadé?, the right to protection, and the ?salinde?, the tradition symbolized by excision.
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Sembene Ousmane
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Sembene Ousmane
Photography
Dominique Gentil
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Abdellatif Raiss
Cast
Fatoumata Coulibaly, Maïmouna Hélène Diarra, Salimata Traore, Aminata Dao, Dominique T. Zeida
Running Time
120 m.
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