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Fire Eyes

Original title: Fire Eyes
Year: 1994
Running time: 62 min.
Country: United States
Director: Soraya Mire
Screenwriter: Soraya Mire
Cast: Documentary
Music: Katherine Quittner, Vicki Randle
Cinematography: David Hausen, Nancy Morita
Genre: Documentary | Religion
Synopsis: Fire Eyes is the voice of the wounded souls, communicating the anguish and the pain, of the harmful practice of Female Genital Mutilation in Africa, which has affected almost 80 million women in Africa, 135 million women around the world. The film maker had gone through this Rite of Passage when she was 13, and lived with the scar and trauma since then. This ancient custom is loosely based on concept of purity of family blood lines, but it primarily acts as a mechanism of patriarchal societies to control women's sexuality, life and freedom, driven by fear and ignorance. In parts of Africa, Middle East and Asia, this artificial and puritanical form of chastity is still prevalent where the communities follow this tradition and the girls and women live with feelings of oppression, violence and stigma.

Awards: 1994: Sundance Film Festival: Nominated for Grand Jury Prize (Documentary)

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Fire Eyes

1994

Soraya Mire