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Mrs. Goundo's daughter
Title
Mrs. Goundo's daughter / a co-production of Attie & Goldwater Productions, Inc. and the Independent Television Service (ITVS).
Published
New York, NY : Distributed by Women Make Movies, ©2009.
Physical Description
1 DVD-video (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Public performance rights granted.
Produced and directed by Barbara Attie, Janet Goldwater.
Chiefly in Soninké and French, with subtitles in English.
Summary
(Producer) Threatened with deportation, Mrs. Goundo must convince an immmigration judge that her two-year-old daughter is in danger: if returned to her family's native country of Mali, she will be forced to undergo female genital mutilation. Reveals how women are profoundly affected by immigration law and political asylum struggles, and travels between an FGM ceremony in a Malian village to Philadelphia, where Mrs. Goundo battles the American legal system for her child's future.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
Soninke; French; English
Added to Catalog
October 11, 2017
Credits
Produced and directed by Barbara Attie, Janet Goldwater.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Circumcision, Female.
Emigration and Immigration - legislation & jurisprudence.
Women's Rights.
Genre/Form
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Feature films.
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