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Finzan
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Wikipedia article
'Finzan' / 'A Dance for Heroes' is a 1989 Malian film, the second feature film directed by Cheick Oumar Sissoko.Stephen Holden, [https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/22/movies/review-film-festival-a-plea-to-emancipate-africa-s-women.html Review/Film Festival; A Plea to Emancipate Africa's Women], 'The New York Times', March 22, 1992. Accessed October 11, 2020. The Malian film critic Manthia Diawara welcomed the film, which deals with arranged marriage and female genital mutilation, as "an impassioned cry for the emancipation of African women [...] one of the boldest examples of socially engaged filmmaking to come out of Africa in recent years".'Finzan: A Dance for the Heroes', 'California Newsreel Library of African Cinema 1995-95 Catalogue', pp.7-9
The film opens with a shot of a mother goat nursing her kids, before cutting to a page of statistics from the World Conference on Women, 1980:
The main character in 'Finzan' is a widow, Nanyuma, expected by tradition to marry her brother-in-law, Bala. To avoid doing do, she escapes to the city, but is eventually captured, tied up, and sent back. Though forced to undergo the marriage ceremony, she refuses to consummate it, and eventually leaves the village to make her own future. In a subplot, a well-educated young women, Fili, questions female genital mutilation. In one of the film's final scenes, she Fili is captured by a group of women and forcibly excised.
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