Anne-Laure Folly

In 1994 Anne-Laure Folly won the silver medal at the Monte Carlo Television Festival for her documentary Femmes aux yeux ouverts (Women with eyes open).[3] The film lets different women from Mali, Senegal, Burkina Faso and Benin talk about how they deal with the issues they are facing.Seven sections cover the subjects of clitoridectomy, forced marriage, HIV/AIDS, struggle, survival, economics and politics.It shows the paradox in which women have great responsibility for the survival and welfare of their families, but are given little voice in major decisions.The film explores the motives of the combatants, which were linked to the cold war, Cuban intervention and the racist South African regime.
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