SENEGAL · 2004

Moolaadé

Ousmane Sembène
Senegalese Cinema female genital mutilation women's rights tradition vs. progress community conflict maternal protection
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When a woman shelters a group of girls from suffering female genital mutilation, she starts a conflict that tears her village apart.

Year2004
CountrySenegal
DirectorOusmane Sembène
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