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EVERYONE'S CHILD
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| DVD, 90 minutes, Zimbabwe, 1996 |
| A feature film examining the plight of Africa's 10,000,000 children orphaned by AIDS. MORE... |
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FEMMES AUX YEUX OUVERTS
(Women with Open Eyes)
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| DVD, 52 minutes, Togo, 1994, in French with English subtitles |
| Women in four African countries are shown organizing around issues of marital rights, reproductive health, female genital mutilation and entrepreneurship. MORE... |
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FINZAN
(A Dance for the Heroes)
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| DVD, 107 minutes, Mali, 1990, in Bambara with English subtitles |
| Cheick Oumar Sissoko explores the status of African women in two interlocking stories of traditional village society. MORE... |
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FRANTZ FANON: BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASK
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| DVD and and 35mm, 52 minutes, United Kingdom, 1996, in English and French with English subtitles |
| Dramatization and documentary trace Fanon's intellectual development. Cultural critics position his pioneering studies of the psychological impact of racism on the colonized and colonizer alike. MORE... |
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LE GRAND BLANC DE LAMBARENE
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| DVD and and 35mm, 93 minutes, Cameroon / France, 1995, in French with English subtitles |
| A revisionist perspective on Nobel Peace Prize winner Albert Schweitzer rewrites the history of colonialism from the point of view of the colonized. MORE... |
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STATE OF DENIAL
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DVD, 83 minutes, South Africa / USA, 2003,  , in English, Sotho and Zulu with English subtitles |
| South Africa is the country with the highest number of HIV+ people in the world. State of Denial puts a human face on the millions affected by introducing us to six South Africans involved with the AIDS epidemic. It shows how they must fight not only the disease but the greed of the drug cartels and the incomprehensible inactivity of their own government in order to get treatment. MORE... |
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