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Women Make Movies
UNVEILED VIEWS: MUSLIM WOMEN ARTISTS SPEAK OUT
Link to Film Segment: http://www.wmm.com/advscripts/wmmvideo.aspx?pid=80
In this
revealing documentary five extraordinary women talk about their occupations,
aspirations, and the rights and status of women in their Muslim countries.
Bosnian Alma Suljevic risks her life daily clearing the landmines near Sarajevo
that are war’s deadly legacy, then sells minefield earth in European art
galleries so that she can continue her work. Eren Keskin, a longtime human
rights activist and lawyer with music conservatory training, fights to change
Turkey’s legal practices that perpetuate violence against women. Veteran
filmmaker Rakshan Bani-Ehmad, true to her credo that art must “look, observe,
and discover”, frequently pushes Iran’s censorship rules to the limit.
Surrounded by conflict since childhood, young Afghani writer Moshagan Saadat
creates brave, profoundly moving and memorable poems. And renowned Pakistani
dancer Nahid Siddiqui, once forced to live outside her homeland when her work
was banned, continues to perfect, renew, and teach her art form. Captured by
Spanish filmmaker Alba Sotorra, who hitchhiked from Barcelona to Pakistan to
shoot Unveiled Views, these self-portraits of hope, heroism, and pride
challenge conventional Western stereotypes about women in the Islamic world.
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