Multimedia Collection

Dancing on the Edge
(Steps for the Future series)

VHS
40 minutes
RA643.86 .M85 D36 2001

This narrative documentary is set in rural Mozambique, where gender roles and poverty influence the fight to contain the spread of AIDS. A young HIV positive mother, Antonietta, who works as an AIDS counsellor, takes her healthy daughter to a remote village for initiation into sexuality. Antonietta struggles with the contradictions of maintaining traditional values while adapting to the reality of the modern world devastated by AIDS.

In Portuguese with English subtitles

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