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DVDs featuring at least one story about the human experience of women.
Afro-Cuba: Yesterday & Today - 2 disc set
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Two exciting, colorful films spotlight the African roots of Cuba's culture by focusing on two legendary artists -- Rumbero Papa Montero and Filmmaker Sara Gomez -- in this unique box set. THE LAST RUMBA OF PAPA MONTERO / LA ULTIMA RUMBA DE PAPA MONTERO Get ready to rumba! The life...
Mama Africa: Miriam Makeba! DVD with bonus short Aces
$12.95 $5.00
Watch this movie ON VOD Miriam Makeba was one of the first African musicians who won international stardom and whose music was always anchored in her traditional South African roots. Miriam Makeba was forced into exile in 1959. She sang for John F. Kennedy, performed with Harry Belafonte and Nina...
African Women: An Uncommon Woman & Cape Verde My Love
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Two fiction films that explore the life of women in Africa. Set in Burkina Faso AN UNCOMMON WOMAN is a comedy about a cuckold wife who decides to take a second husband. CAPE VERDE MY LOVE is a drama that takes a critical look at the lives of women...
White Lies & White like the moon
$12.25 $5.00
Two poignant women-centered stories about identity WHITE LIES Based on a novel by Whale Rider writer Witi Ihimaera, White Lies - New Zealand’s entry in the 2014 Oscar competition for best foreign-language film - is an intense drama that explores with great humanity and sensitivity such difficult topics as race...
Great African Films - Vol. 1
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GREAT AFRICAN FILMS - VOL 1 : Haramuya & Faraw! Mother of the Dunes - Two films are included in the package, making for an entertaining and edifying double feature experience: Drissa Toure’s Haramuya (1995) is a dramatic comedy about several generations of a traditional Muslim family scraping up against...
Foreign Body & Stambali
$12.95 $5.00
DOUBLE DVD - SPOTLIGHT ON TUNISIA - In FOREIGN BODY, a young Tunisian woman arrives illegally in France following her escape from Tunisia’s mounting Islamist fundamentalism. In Tunisia, the history of STAMBALI goes back to the arrival of the first Africans taken as slaves from Mali, Timbuktu specifically... FOREIGN BODYDIRECTED...
African Mothers with "Seasons of a Life" & "Joy"
$11.95 $5.00
AFRICAN MOTHERS Two films that explore the commitment of motherhood by looking at the life of two African women, in "Seasons of Life," a housemaid, who is sexually abused is forced to give up her child but comes back for him years later, in "Joy" A Nigerian mother living in the USA struggles...
REVOLUTIONARY WOMEN 2 DVD Set: Made in Bangladesh and She Had a Dream
$14.99 $5.00
MADE IN BANGLADESH Shimu, 23, works in a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Faced with difficult conditions at work, she decides to start a union with her co-workers. Despite threats from the management and disapproval of her husband, Shimu is determined to go on. Together the women must fight...
The Colors of Curacao
$12.95 $9.95
COLORS OF CURACAO This two-DVD set featuring classic film "Ava & Gabriel: A Love Story" and contemporary drama "Papa's Song" serves as a window into the charming world of Curacao, part of the Dutch-owned Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean. AVA & GABRIEL: A LOVE STORY Writer Norman DePalm offers two...