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The Women of Mount
Ararat Erwann Briand /
France / 2004 / 52 min
French director
Erwann Briand, who was educated in Poland's premiere Lodz
film school, brings us this cutting-edge documentary. It is
a portrait of a six-(wo)man division of the Kurdish Women's
Army. The film's drama is not based in imparting the risk
of death, violence or the psychopathology of war. In the melancholically
beautiful mountains, we watch a small community of women who
are natural, subtle and educated, and whose fate seems tragically
sealed. Briand's film lets us feel the corner Kurds have been
pushed into by the mass violations of human rights by Turkey
or Saddam Hussein's Iraq. The special nature of the women's
army lies also in the confluence of national and social goals
- the liberation of Kurdish women.
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