Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, 2022, Drama, 87 min. In French and Chadian Arabic with English Subtitles
Screening followed by a Q&A with Abosede A. George, Venus Mahmoodi, and Emi Schlosser
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On the outskirts of N'djamena in Chad, Amina lives alone with her only daughter, 15-year-old Maria. Her already fragile world collapses the day she discovers that her daughter is pregnant. The teenager does not want this pregnancy. In a country where abortion is not only condemned by religion, but also by law, Amina finds herself facing a battle that seems lost in advance.
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Abosede George is Tow Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies at Barnard. Her book, Making Modern Girls: A History of Girlhood, Labor, and Social Development received the Aidoo-Snyder Book Prize in 2015 from the Women's Caucus of the African Studies Association, as well as Honorable Mention from the New York African Studies Association.
Venus Mahmoodi is Assistant Professor of Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry) at CUIMC and part of the Women and Reproductive Mental Health Program. She is also Clinical Researcher at the Early N3 Lab at CUIMC, and Lab Director at Muslim Perinatal Lab at Teachers College.
Emilie Schlosser is the 2024-2025 intern at Columbia Maison Française.
This screening is part of CINEMA/CARE. Maison Francaise Film Festival Fall 2024. More info here