Multimedia Collection
Women with Open Eyes (Femmes aux Yeux Ouverts)
VHS
52 minutes
1994
PN1997 .F41 1994
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 in four West African countries: Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal and Benin.
We meet a women active in the movement against female genital mutilation. She
explains why in Africa it is easier to oppose this practice as a health issue than as
a women's rights issues. We also join a health worker demonstrating condom use in
a marketplace and explaining how diseases are sexually transmitted. Women are the
traditional market traders in Africa. Successful businesswomen describe how they
have set up an association to share expertise and provide mutual assistance.
Women with Open Eyes shows that women are organizing at the grassroots
level to play a prominent role in Africa's current opening to democracy. It
demonstrates why Africa's development is inextricably linked to the social and
economic progress of its women.
French with English Subtitles
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