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DANCING ON THE EDGE
DANCING ON THE EDGE

42 minutes, 2001, Mozambique
Filmmakers: Karen Boswall
in Chuabo and Portuguese with English subtitles
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Volume 6 of Steps for the Future a 25 cassette series on AIDS in Southern Africa.

Dancing on the Edge is set in rural Mozambique, where traditional gender roles and poverty influence the fight to contain the spread of AIDS. Antonietta is HIV-positive and works as an AIDS counselor in the city. But she takes her one healthy daughter to a remote village for initiation into sexuality. After a week of rituals and lessons on how to please a man, the daughter will become a woman and consequently be put at risk to contract HIV. Antonietta struggles with the contradictions of maintaining traditional customs while adapting to the reality of the modern world.
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