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Set in a small African village, four young girls face a 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 a village traditionalists (both male and female) and endangers the prospective marriage of her daughter to the heir-apparent to the tribal throne.

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Female genital mutilation (FGM), also known as female genital cutting and female circumcision, is the ritual removal of some or all of the external female genitalia.
Traditionally, it is cut with an iron sheet or a knife, then sutured back with needlework or a thorn. There is no anesthetic during the whole process, and the disinfection is not thorough.
Gynecologist Dr Rosemary Mburu of Kenya estimate that as many as 15% of circumcised girls die of the excessive loss of blood or infection of the wound.
Even the girls who survive the circumcision will endure lifelong pain. The lower part of the body is always in pain while having sexual intercourse, urinating, or even working. This affects their ability to achieve orgasm or sexual pleasure of any kind and might also affect fertility.

Moolaadé.2004.PAL.DVD.x264-Tree.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/EE9F99ECDCDE4B5/Moolaade.2004.PAL.DVD.x264-Tree.mkv

Language(s):Bambara, French
Subtitles:English

The post Ousmane Sembene – Moolaadé (2004) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
First-time feature filmmaker Salif Traore follows in the footsteps of master filmmaker Ousmane Sembene with this drama that follows a ‘bastard’ who returns to his rural Mali village after being cast out many years back. Zanga (Fili Traoré) was born out of wedlock, making him a figure of scorn to the locals. Many years after being unceremoniously ejected from the village, Zanga returns wearing the

façade of a successful engineer determined to usher his village into the modern era – much to the consternation of the superstitious villagers who previously shunned him. When a young villager drowns in a nearby river, the locals draw the conclusion that river goddess Faro is enraged by Zanga’s return. But Zanga isn’t about to be run off before he finds out the identity of his biological father and helps improve the lives of the local villagers. Meanwhile, as the tide of anger grows, the local chief makes the call for a sacrifice.

	
Faro (2007).avi

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Container:  	AVI
Runtime: 	1h 32mn
Size: 	1.37 GiB
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Resolution: 	720x384 
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#1:  	2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 Kbps

https://nitro.download/view/C5589B888CAFDA9/Faro_(2007).avi
https://nitro.download/view/05AC03C526BE74E/Faro_English.srt

Language(s):Bambara
Subtitles:English

The post Salif Traoré – Faro, la reine des eaux AKA Faro, Goddess of the Waters (2007) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Khalifa and Fanta, two children from a deprived suburb of Bamako, are expelled from school because they do not have the means to buy the necessary supplies. Here they are forced to collect garbage to try to finance their education. Exhausted by their work, children wear a look of mischievous replicas and humorous on the Malian changing society.

https://nitro.download/view/396C582A0226C8F/Lessons.from.the.Garbage.1986.VHSRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):Bambara
Subtitles:French hardsubbed, English

The post Cheick Oumar Sissoko – Nyamanton AKA Lessons from the Garbage (1986) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

AllMovie Synopsis:
This film, directed by Malian director Cheick Oumar Sissoku confronts the patriarchal traditions of Mali, including the controversial issue of female circumcision. A recent widow, Nanyuma feels liberated from the cruel treatment of her late husband but is ordered by the village chief to marry her husband’s equally oafish brother. She leaves the village and hides with her niece Fili but is eventually forced to return. Although her resistance to her culture’s rigid traditions stirs her people to a higher level of awareness of freedom and social independence, Nanyuma realizes that her only chance at claiming her own freedom will be by leaving her community. The film’s satiric approach is modeled after a theatrical tradition native to Mali.

	
Finzan.1989.SUBBED.DVDRip.XviD-AEN.avi

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Runtime: 	1 h 51 min
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https://nitro.download/view/39206EAE3CF9513/Finzan.1989.SUBBED.DVDRip.XviD-AEN.avi

Language(s):Bambara
Subtitles:English hardsubs

The post Cheick Oumar Sissoko – Finzan (1989) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

An adultery drama set in a bourgeois family in Bamako, Mali, where tensions are rife within the household: Mimi, bored with the polygamy and routine of marriage, wants to leave Issa. She has a lover, Abba. How will all three cope with this?

Richard Brody capsule review in The New Yorker:
From the standpoint of a romantic triangle in the Bamako beau monde, the Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé sketches a scathing portrait of a society that is rotting from the top down. The domineering, arrogant Mimi (Sokona Gakou), a well-to-do public-health bureaucrat, is having an affair with a younger man, Abba (Alou Sissoko), while married to Issa (Assane Kouyaté), a veteran filmmaker at work on a drama about an upper-class woman’s adulterous affair. As the story sprawls and lurches like a soap opera through the expansive arc of its melodramatic plot points, Cissé maintains patience, and even tenderness, for his self-deluding characters while depicting a wide array of underlying ills, including polygamous marriage, political corruption and cronyism, inflexible class hierarchies, and religious hypocrisy. The pathos of an artist too tangled in his personal agonies to look outside his gated courtyard, of a doctor who lives large without seeing a single patient, and of a politically connected playboy with an invisible source of income is heightened by Cissé’s stark visual contrast of chic white-walled villas with the roiling, unpaved roads just beyond. In Bambara.

628MB | 2h 14m | 640×352 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/BBDAB94930097E6/Min_Ye_(2009).mkv
https://nitro.download/view/08A95B0219F903A/Min_Ye_(2009).srt

Language:Bambara
Subtitles:French – hc,English

The post Souleymane Cissé – Min Ye AKA Tell Me Who You Are (2009) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A forestry engineer pushes for reforestation measures, against the will of his selfish superiors, and embarks on a search for a mystical healing plant linking him with the ancestral knowledge of his people.

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“Incorporating dashes of local color into a contemporary tale of ancient mysticism and modern corruption, Ta Dona strikes an appealing balance between old and new.”

Variety

“This exciting film is composed like a painting, one stroke after another. Images and scenes reveal a very precise portrait of the geographic, social and intellectual environment of present-day Mali.”

Le Monde

1.34GB | 1h 40m | 624×464 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/CA6F92BA41018ED/ta_dona.avi

Language(s):Bambara
Subtitles:English hard

The post Adama Drabo – Ta Dona AKA Fire (1991) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Beginning in South Africa under the apartheid regime, the film follows a young girl who flees the country after a violent confrontation with a local white landowner in which her father is killed. She settles in Abidjan, where, ten years later, she has become a university student. As part of her studies, she visits the Taureg tribe on the edge of the Sahara before at last returning to post-Apartheid South Africa.

1.60GB | 2h 13mn | 720×576 | avi

https://nitroflare.com/view/B96A23F7E490541/Waati_(Souleymane_Cissé,_1995).avi https://nitro.download/view/7476B747921AEEE/Waati_(Souleymane_Cissé,_1995).en.srt

Language:English, Bambara, French
Subtitles:English, German (hardcoded)

The post Souleymane Cissé – Waati AKA Time (1995) first appeared on Cinema of the World.