Videos on Female Cutting (sorted by alphabetical order)
A Cruel Ritual (1991)
Posted On: 09 Dec 2006
(40 mins). Louise Panton.
Focuses on Eastern African refugee groups in the United Kingdom -- a
group of women on whom infibulation, the most severe form of FGM, has
been performed. Women talk about their experience of being mutilated; a
woman who performs FGM in Africa shows her operating equipment;
legislative attempts to do away with FGM are discussed; and mothers are
interviewed about reasons for circumcising daughters. While very
comprehensive, does not show FGM being performed.
Production Date: 1991
Another Form of Abuse (1992)
Posted On: 09 Dec 2006
(22 mins). FGM England
Efua Dorkenoo talks about FGM in England; interviews women about their
experience and the risks they face if they speak out against tradition;
depicts FGM with diagrams; includes film of a Sudanese woman undergoing
emergency surgery, the result of her husband cutting her on their
wedding night because he could not penetrate her; discusses prevention
and the sensitivity of the traditional practices which touches
religion, culture, race and women's issues.
Ordering Information:
FORWARD, UK
Unit 4
765 - 767 Harrow Road
LONDON
United Kingdom
NW10 5NY
Dabla! Excision (1996)
Posted On: 09 Dec 2006
While men fight for territory and power in many African nations, a
growing number of women are involved in a struggle of a very different
nature.
Each year in 26 countries, approximately two million African girls
undergo excision or infibulation, causing physical and psycholgical
trauma that can profoundly affect their sexual, reproductive and
emotional lives. This widespread, ancient practice of removing a young
girl's genital organs has now become the battleground for major social
change. FGM is widely denounced by international agencies, and the UN
charter of Rights classes it among the extreme forms of violence
against women and children. Since the 1980s, a widespread but
little-publicized international movement has been consolidating to
eliminate this harmful practice. In 1996, following the Beijing Women's
Conference, the World Health Organization, in collaboration with the
Inter-African Committee on Harmful Traditional Practices (IAC),
implemented a strategic 20 year plan to eliminate FGM.
(45 mins.) Filmed in Africa, this film shows FGM being performed in
a city street and rural areas, interviews villagers about the
reasons/myths surrounding FGM, and depicts educational efforts to
eradicate FGM.
A documentary film directed by Soraya Mire, a Somalian woman who's
undergone FGM as a young girl. Fire Eyes unfolds the complexity of FGM
and offers an overview of its geographical location, a clinical
explanation of FGM, reason/rationale behind the practice, psychological
implications, the situation today, modern challenges to the traditional
practice, male domination interests and ideology controlling this
practice, woman as private property, and the social relationships of
reproduction, self-denial and self-sacrifice. Female circumcision
creates anxiety for the woman regarding her sexual awareness, its
meaning of social significance, social control and punishment.
Production Date: 1994
Ordering Information:
Filmakers Library, Inc.
124 East 40th Street,
New York, NY 10016
(212-808-4980, Fax 212-808-4983).
Pricing Information:
sale:16mm $2000, vid.$445,
rental:16 mm $300,vid $85.
Inter-African Committee on Harmful Traditional Practices
Posted On: 09 Dec 2006
(18 mins). This 1992 film discusses the role of the
IAC in training, reforming and sensitizing Africans to the dangers
of FGM; shows how IAC members carry out their goals at the grass
roots level. Note: Poor quality production.
Order: Persistent Productions, 235 E. Colorado Blvd, Suite 1363,
Pasadena, CA 91101, (818) 752-2571.
Price: Available on short-term loan.
Le Fardeau (The Burden) (1988)
Posted On: 09 Dec 2006
(30 mins). Produced by La cellule De Coordination Sur Les Pratiques
Traditionelles Affectant La Sante De La Femme et de L'Enfant en
Collaboration Ave La Television National de Guinee. (French Documentary
which explores the beliefs perpetuating FGM in Guinea, West Africa.
Ordering Information:
Unknown
Nightline with Ted Koppel
Posted On: 09 Dec 2006
Ted Koppel addresses FGM with African women.
Production Date: January 1995
NOCIRC Composite Video (1992)
Posted On: 09 Dec 2006
(16 mins). Shows both male and female circumcisions.
Production Date: 1992
Order: NOCIRC, POBox 2512, San Anselmo, CA 94979-2512
Price: $20
(including S&H).
On Their Own (Reham's Story) (2001)
Posted On: 09 Dec 2006
Reham is a young Muslim woman who has been educated in Western
schools and now goes to the American University in Cairo. When she
reached the proper age, her mother insisted that she gets circumcised.
Despite her father's resistance, Reham got circumcised - in a hospital,
under general anesthesia, but circumcised nonetheless.
In this film, Reham recounts the story of her circumcision and how she gained awareness about the harmfulness of the practice.
Reham now works in anti-circumcision campaigns and strives to spread
awareness of the fact that the practice if female genital mutilation is
harmful, unhealthy, and certainly not a religious decree.
A segment of this show is devoted to the topic of
FGM. Speakers included Ms. Soraya Mire, Ms. Mimi Ramsey, and Dr.
Nahid Toubia.
Production Date: 1995
Pourquoi Donc l'Excision/Why Excision
Posted On: 09 Dec 2006
Produced by Carlyn Saltman and Justin Yao in collaboration with the
National Committee Against Excision in Burkina Faso for Dioula speakers
in Burkina and surrounding countries. For conference screenings to
non-Dioula audiences, a 10 minute synopsis with English subtitles is
also available. The video was funded by the Research Action Information
Network for Bodily Integrity of Women (RAINBO) and Carlyn Saltman and
received in-kind support from JHU/CCP.
Rights of Passage
Posted On: 09 Dec 2006
(30 mins). English documentary produced by UNICEF
chronicling four stories of young women's survival (Nicaragua, India,
Jamaica, Burkina Faso). FGM is addressed in the Burkina Faso piece.
Production Date: N/A
Rites (1990)
Posted On: 09 Dec 2006
(52 minutes) Penny Dedman. BBC-Produced. Includes interviews with women
who have undergone FGM who talk about the psychological and medical
consequences. Contains explanation of how circumcision, excision and
infibulation are done; discusses chastity and gives history of hiding
female sexuality in both Eastern and Western cultures. While very
comprehensive, does not show FGM being performed.
Production Date: 1990 By American Anthropological Association (AAA).
Seven Drops of Blood
Posted On: 09 Dec 2006
Available in Somali, useful for Somali audiences.
Production Date: N/A
The three wishes of the late Sharifa all pertain to Kunama
traditions: One is especially brutal, a clitoridectomy should be
performed on her youngest granddaughter, Geneth. Agid, the mother of
the child, tries to refuse. She would like to protect her daughter from
this ordeal. Agid argues that in the city many families don't perform
this ritual anymore. The old powerful women warn that an uncircumcised
women will be ostracized from the tribal society, won't be able to
inherit and will not be buried in the family grave. The primary threat
is the ghost of the ancestors, which can be terrible and can bring
tragedy over the entire family.
Documentary, 45 minutes
Script and Direction: USCHI MADEISKY, KLAUS WERNER
Camera and Research: GUDRUN FRANK-WISSMANN
Editor: BODO FABIAN
Produced by COLORAMA Filmproduktion Frankfurt
Commissioned by NDR, copyright 2000
Ordering Information: Colorama Film
COLORAMA Film-u. Fernsehproduktion GbR
Klaus Werner Uschi Madeisky
Im Klingenfeld 37
D-60435 Frankfurt/Main
A new South African short film, “Cutting Silence”, written and directed by Reina-Marie Loader and produced by International Radio Pictures’ Kit Reynolds, has been selected for competition in the Pan African Film Festival (PAFF) in New York in February.
The 29-minute film, a drama about the traditional but highly controversial practice of female circumcision in North African countries, was entirely shot in South Africa with a local crew and cast. It was partly funded by the Austrian Department of Woman’s Affairs.
“We built an entire Somalian village in Irene, just outside of Johannesburg, and had five days in which to shoot,” says Reynolds. “The production was made possible with generous support from Roddy Barker of Camera Facilities, MCC and Canvas and Tent. We were lucky enough to have had the most wonderful crew and cast.”
(30 mins). Video of a play by young Egyptian women
discussing their experience of circumcision. (Arabic with english
subtitles).
Production Date: N/A
The Season of Planting Girls (2000)
Posted On: 09 Dec 2006
From Mediahouse.org
A
video production for NGO's campaigning against female circumcision (FGM)
in Egypt.
Documentary
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is forbidden by law in Egypt. It is therefore
banned in public and private hospitals and clinics. The government has
an active policy discouraging it. But, according to official statistics,
about 96% of women in Egypt are still circumcised.
Together with the Egyptian authorities, organisations such as UNICEF,
the Ford Foundation, UNDP and others are very active in researching and
lobbying against FGM.
In
co-operation with these organisations, MediaHouse has produced
a video to discourage parents from having their daughters circumcised.
An
English and French subtitled version is available.
00:25:00, 2000
PRICE:
$ 15, excl. P&P
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