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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
With a focus on the emotional and psychological impact, this film addresses the historical and contemporary factors that contribute to the pressures thrust upon Indian women by a society obsessed with fair skin. [Shedding new light upon issues of global diversity, this documentary focuses on the extent to which a "fairness fetish" has permeated various levels of Indian society. Fairness is a serious business in India, one with intensely psychological...
22) Chess fever
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A Keaton-esque comedy in which a young man's passion for the game threatens to wreck his marriage.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In Shimofukuzawa, Japan, the local men's youth association organizes the annual Dosojin deity festival. The festivities are characterized by paper decorations and pantomime, with sexualized symbols promoting marriage and fertility.
24) Foolish wives
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A bogus count and his two swindling "cousins" descend upon Monte Carlo (rebuilt in Universal's back lot) and cause a rift in the marriage of an American couple. The result is a Grimm's fairytale romance that is no less fascinating today than it was 80 years ago.
25) Way down east
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Griffith billed this film as a "simple tale of plain people." This modest remark does little to convey the scale and significance of one of this director's most ambitious works and his most popular after Birth of a nation.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Bambara
Description
In Finzan, Cheick Oumar Sissoko has skillfully crafted a film which raises one of the most important issues of African rural life, the status of women, in a style accessible to every villager. Finzan tells the story of two women's rebellion. Nanyuma, a young widow defies her brother-in-law, the village fool, when he asserts his traditional right to "inherit" her. Fili, a young woman sent from the city by her conservative father, is brutally "circumcised"...
27) An act of love
Publisher
An Act of Love Film
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This award-winning film addresses the emotional intersections of religious tradition, LGBTQ rights, and family ties. Reverend Frank Schaefer was put on trial in the United Methodist Church for officiating his son's same-sex wedding. At the beginning of his career, Schaefer had no intention of getting involved in the controversy over gay marriage in the Church. However, several years into Frank's ministry at a small church in Lebanon, Pennsylvania,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Français
Description
Moussa Sene Absa's latest work pushes the formal boundaries of African cinema to explore the complex interplay of history and psychology in contemporary Africa. Intensely personal and at the same time deeply political, Ainsi meurent les anges combines the elegiac lyricism of his Ça twiste à Poponguine with the acerbic social critique of Tableau Ferraille. What is perhaps most surprising is that this creative freedom was won precisely by working...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A rural town, a truck driver makes runs between his town and Accra with few problems until he is forced to replace his truck. To raise the money to get a new vehicle, he sells some stolen watches and promises his daughter in marriage to a rich merchant. Rebelling against this fate, the daughter runs off to Accra with her boyfriend.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Français
Description
Women in four African countries are shown organizing around issues of marital rights, reproductive health, female genital mutilation and entrepreneurship. A film about African women is a rarity, even more, one made by an African woman. In Femmes Aux Yeux Ouverts, award-winning Togolese filmmaker, Anne-Laure Folly presents portraits of contemporary African women from four West African nations: Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal and Benin. The film shows how...
31) Monday's Girls
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Monday's Girls explores the conflict between modern individualism and traditional communities in today's Africa through the eyes of two young Waikiriki women from the Niger delta. Although both come from leading families in the same large island town, Florence looks at the iria women's initiation ceremony as an honor, while Azikiwe, who has lived in the city for ten years, sees it as an indignity. Ngozi Onwurah, director of such feminist classics...
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