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SUNNY SIDE 2003: Iranian Insights
As Sunny Side of the Doc was celebrating record-breaking numbers of projects and buyers, five filmmakers from Tehran silently arrived in Marseilles. Somewhere at the fringe of an incredibly bustling documentary market, BEN KEMPAS witnessed how the Iranian directors met their broadcasters for the very first time.
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DEBRA ZIMMERMAN: By and about Women
Women Make Movies is one of the most successful ‘educational distributors’ in North America. Celebrating their 30th anniversary last year, they have a big catalogue with more than 400 titles, and though they also do theatrical and broadcast distribution, the educational market is where the US money is. ULLA JACOBSEN talked to executive director Debra…
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The experience involves unimaginable pain
The circumcision of women may be the ultimate act of subjugation, a brutal operation to control women physically, so they will go directly from obeying their parents to obeying their husband, without being carried away by sexual lust.