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"Des femmes de quatre pays africains analysent leur situation sociale à travers l'excision, le mariage forcé, la procréation face au sida et montrent leur détermination vis-à-vis de la démocratie. Leur situation repose sur un paradoxe : pilier de la cellule familiale et sociale elles ne sont souvent qu'une monnaie d'échange sans aucun pouvoir."
"Profiles contemporary African women in four West African countries: Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal and Benin. We meet a woman active in the movement against female genital mutilation, a health care worker educating women about sexually transmitted diseases, and businesswomen who describe how they have set up an association to share expertise and provide mutual assistance."
"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 African women are speaking out and organizing around five key issues: marital rights, reproductive health, female genital mutilation, women's role in the economy and political rights. Femmes Aux Yeux Ouverts introduces us to many unforgettable African women. we meet a woman who has taken refuge in a convent from a forced marriage. We join a community health worker demonstrating condom use in a marketplace. An activist describes why it is more effective to attack female "circumcision" as a health issue rather than as a women's rights issue. Women entrepreneurs, who control trade in major cities explain how they have formed their own mutual aid societies. A Malian woman, who lost her daughter in the 1991 pro-democracy demonstrations, describes how women continue to play a key role in the Malian revolution. Femmes Aux Yeux Ouverts shows how women are organizing at the grassroots level to insure their participation in the continent's current move towards democracy. It has screened to enthusiastic women's audiences across West Africa, reinforcing their demands for a place at the center of the development process. "It takes courage to see the true condition of women in the world and to speak out about it. Courage and a strong stomach. The women in this film possess the necessary radical vision that neither romanticizes nor renders remote the obvious consequences of female enslavement." - Alice Walker "A wonderful film seen through the eyes of women determined to make a change in their lives. It will make you cry and laugh but most importantly, bring you closer to African women." - Else Mia Adjali, United Methodist Office for the U.N. "Powerful and thoughtful . . . absorbing and non-voyeuristic, distinguished by the candor of its interviews." - Claire Andrade Watkins, Emerson College."
""Dans quatre pays d'Afrique, l'analyse de femmes sur leurs droits sur leurs propre corps, à travers l'excision, les mariages forcés, la séxualité et la procréation en pleine épidémie de sida. Description aussi de la participation des femmes africaines dans la lutte pour le changement, le développement économique et l'arrivée de systèmes politiques démocratiques."
"A film about African women made by an African woman. Covers the situation and social role of West African women in Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal and Benin in areas such as struggles against female circumcision, forced marriage and AIDS, business, and democratization."
"The social conditions and position of women in the West African countries of Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal and Benin are brought into focus with interviews of women active in the various struggles of their countries both politically and socially. Beginning with the oppression of patriarchal traditions and forced marraiges, the film looks at the issues of AIDS and women, the role of women in surviving the 1991 Mali revolution, their exploitation as a labour resource, their evolving economic role as shopkeepers and traders, and their growing presence in the political realm."
"A film about African women is a rarity, even more, one made by an African woman. In this film, 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 African women are speaking out and organizing around five key issues: marital rights, reproductive health, female genital mutilation, women's role in the economy and political rights. With English subtitles."@en
"Portraits d'Africaines originaires du Burkina Faso, du Mali, du Sénégal et du Bénin dans un contexte de modernisation et de démocratisation. Elles s'organisent et revendiquent des droits matrimoniaux (mariages forcés) l'abolition de pratiques traditionnelles d'excision (mutilation génitale), la santé reproductive, un rôle dans l'économie et des droits politiques."
"Surveys social conditions faced by women in Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal and Benin, including circumcision, forced marriage, AIDS, and economic repression. Examines grass-roots efforts toward education and improvement as Africa opens to democracy. Made by a Togolese filmmaker."
"Au Burkina Faso il y a un poème qui dit qu'une femme bien ne doit pas avoir les yeux ouverts. Pourtant, partout en Afrique, les femmes qui ont les yeux grands ouverts sur la situation sociale qui leur est consentie même dans les nouvelles démocraties. Dans ces quatre pays d'Afrique, elles analysent leurs droits sur leur propre corps à travers l'excision, les mariages forcés, la sexualité et la procréation face au sida. ainsi, que leur participation à la lutte et au changement, leur palce dans l'économique et la politique. Un tour d'horizon très complet des préoccupations des femmes africaines d'aujourd'hui et des solutions qu'elles mettent en oeuvre grâce à leur mobilisation."
"Surveys social conditions faced by women in Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal and Benin, including circumcision, forced marriage, AIDS, and economic repression. Examines grass-roots efforts toward education and improvement as Africa opens to democracy."