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Moolaadé., Doomireew Films ; New Yorker Films presents a Direction de la Cinématographie Nationale (Burkina Faso)/Centre Cinématographique Marocain (Maroco)/Cinétélé Films (Tunisia)/Les Films de la Terre Africaine (Cameroun) co-production with contribution from La Commission Européenne: Fonds European de Développement du Ministère des Affaires Etrangères et du Ministère de la Culture ... ; written and directed by Ousmane Sembene, Widescreen

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Moolaadé.

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Doomireew Films ; New Yorker Films presents a Direction de la Cinématographie Nationale (Burkina Faso)/Centre Cinématographique Marocain (Maroco)/Cinétélé Films (Tunisia)/Les Films de la Terre Africaine (Cameroun) co-production with contribution from La Commission Européenne: Fonds European de Développement du Ministère des Affaires Etrangères et du Ministère de la Culture ... ; written and directed by Ousmane Sembene

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Set in a small village, four young girls who face ritual "purification" decide to flee to the household of Collé Ardo Gallo Sy, a strong-willed woman who has managed to shield her own teenage daughter from the mutilation. Collé invokes the time-honored custom of moolaadé (sanctuary) to protect the fugitives, and tension mounts as the ensuing stand-off pits Collé against village traditionalists. This endangers the prospective marriage of her daughter to the heir-apparent to the tribal throne

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