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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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#1:  	French 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 Kbps (Audio Track)

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

Language(s):Bambara, French
Subtitles:English

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In precolonial Senegal, members of the Ceddo (or “outsiders”) kidnap Princess Dior Yacine (Tabata Ndiaye) after her father, the king, pledges loyalty to an ascendant Islamic faction that plans to convert the entire clan to its faith. Attempts to recapture her fail, provoking further division and eventual war between the animistic Ceddo and the fundamentalist Muslims, with Christian missionaries and slave traders from Europe also playing a role in the conflict. Banned in Senegal upon its release, Ceddo is an ambitious, multilayered epic that explores the combustible tensions among ancient tradition, religious colonization, political expediency, and individual freedom.

Ceddo.1977.BDRIP.Criterion.4K.576p.x264.FLAC.KJNU.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 56 min
Size: 	2.72 GiB
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#1:  	Wolof 1.0ch FLAC @ 329 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/E25A8862BB101CF/Ceddo.1977.BDRIP.Criterion.4K.576p.x264.FLAC.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):Wolof
Subtitles:English

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With revolutionary outrage, Ousmane Sembène chronicles a period during World War II when French colonial forces in Senegal conscripted young men of the Diola people and attempted to seize rice stores for soldiers back in Europe. As the tribe’s patriarchal leaders pray and make sacrifices to their gods, the women in the community refuse to yield their harvests, incurring the French army’s wrath. With a deep understanding of the oppressive forces that have shaped Senegalese history, Emitaï explores the strains that colonialism places upon cultural traditions and, in the process, discovers a people’s hidden reserves of rebellion and dignity.

Emitai.1971.BDRIP.Criterion.4K.576p.x264.FLAC.KJNU.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 41 min
Size: 	2.29 GiB
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https://nitro.download/view/816AE4293BAE206/Emitai.1971.BDRIP.Criterion.4K.576p.x264.FLAC.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):Wolof, French
Subtitles:English

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Ousmane Sembène was one of the greatest and most groundbreaking filmmakers who ever lived, as well as the most renowned African director of the twentieth century—and yet his name still deserves to be better known in the rest of the world. He made his feature debut in 1966 with the brilliant and stirring Black Girl. Sembène, who was also an acclaimed novelist in his native Senegal, transforms a deceptively simple plot—about a young Senegalese woman who moves to France to work for a wealthy white family and finds that life in their small apartment becomes a prison, both figuratively and literally—into a complexly layered critique of the lingering colonialist mind-set of a supposedly postcolonial world. Featuring a moving central performance by M’Bissine Thérèse Diop, Black Girl is a harrowing human drama as well as a radical political statement—and one of the essential films of the 1960s.

4.26GB | 59m 40s | 1480×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/B581A896295EDE4/Black.Girl.1966.BDRIP.1080p.x264.FLAC.KJNU.mkv
or
https://fikper.com/OBYfcSNWdK/Black.Girl.1966.BDRIP.1080p.x264.FLAC.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Ousmane Sembene – La noire de… AKA Black Girl (1966) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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This rich documentary follows the legendary Senagalese filmmaker Sembene Ousmane from the Pan African Film Festival in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso back to the streets of Dakar and his Galle Ceddo home at Yoff, overlooking the sea. Revisiting several locations of his films, Sembene Ousmane reminisces about his career and discusses his craft.

1.52GB | 1h 00m | 784×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/75A59812012D4E1/Sembene.The.Making.of.African.Cinema.1994.576p.Criterion.Bluray.x264-WHRen.mkv
or
https://nitro.download/view/896A333745EFD45/Sembene.The.Making.of.African.Cinema.1994.576p.Criterion.Bluray.x264-WHRen.part1.rar
https://nitro.download/view/46E003AD4DFE3A0/Sembene.The.Making.of.African.Cinema.1994.576p.Criterion.Bluray.x264-WHRen.part2.rar

Language(s):French, English, Wolof
Subtitles:English

The post Manthia Diawara & Ngugi Wa Thiong’o – Sembène: The Making of African Cinema (1994) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

This rich documentary follows the legendary Senagalese filmmaker Sembene Ousmane from the Pan African Film Festival in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso back to the streets of Dakar and his Galle Ceddo home at Yoff, overlooking the sea. Revisiting several locations of his films, Sembene Ousmane reminisces about his career and discusses his craft.

1.52GB | 1h 00m | 784×576 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/CA30B11230D6116/Sembene.The.Making.of.African.Cinema.1994.576p.Criterion.Bluray.x264-WHRen.mkv

Language(s):French, English, Wolof
Subtitles:English

The post Manthia Diawara & Ngugi Wa Thiong’o – Sembène: The Making of African Cinema (1994) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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In 1952, Ousmane Sembene, a dockworker and fifth-grade dropout from Senegal, began dreaming an impossible dream: to become the storyteller for a new Africa. SEMBENE! tells the unbelievable true story of the father of African cinema, the self- taught novelist and filmmaker who fought, against enormous odds, a 50-year battle to return African stories to Africans. SEMBENE! is told through the experiences of the man who knew him best, colleague and biographer Samba Gadjigo, using rare archival footage and more than 100 hours of exclusive materials. A true-life epic, SEMBENE! follows an ordinary man who transforms himself into a fearless spokesperson for the marginalized, becoming a hero to millions. After a startling fall from grace, can Sembene reinvent himself once more?

1.53GB | 1h 29m | 853×480 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/F453C12C9552E92/Sembene__Samba_Gadjigo,_Jason_Silverman__2015.part1.rar https://nitro.download/view/36ED17995970810/Sembene__Samba_Gadjigo,_Jason_Silverman__2015.part2.rar https://nitro.download/view/1F48ED24D496B33/Sembene__Samba_Gadjigo,_Jason_Silverman__2015.part3.rar

Language(s):English, French
Subtitles:English, English (hardcoded for extras)

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