duma ( 2011 film )
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duma
israel, 2011 | documentary, 55 min. director and producer: abeer zeibak haddad
israel / palestine, 2011 | documentary, 55 min. director and producer: suheil and abeer haddad
the 2011 edition of sofia film festival will feature a number of norwegian movies, as well as co - productions, representing the best of norwegian cinema of recent years .
the film
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will be screened at the 21 st edition of the shanghai film festival in the program spectrum, which is part of the international film panorama of the festival .
actress / educator - turned - filmmaker abeer zeibak haddad is hitting the road with her documentary “duma” — “dolls” in arabic — the first film by an arabic speaker. .
duma will be introduced by anna ball, senior lecturer in postcolonial studies at nottingham trent university, uk .
the sofia international film festival started 15 years ago as a thematic music film festival, but after the first couple of editions it developed into a general film festival and became one of the key bulgarian cultural events .
dragomir sholev’s feature debut shelter has become the first bulgarian film to win the grand prix of sofia international film festival’s (siff) international competition .
palestinian film breaks ground on women' s issues
first film in the arab world to deal with sexual assault of women and girls released in israel / palestine
.
on wednesday, june 6 th 2018, within the extraordinary assembly of the macedonian film workers' association, a memorandum of cooperation was signed between the film agency of the republic of macedonia and the film workers' association in order to strengthen the joint efforts to improve the working conditions, the quantity and the artistic achievements of the macedonian film production .
duma is played by 6 different cheetahs. all orphaned or poached cheetahs themselves; were hand raised in different parts of africa. see more »
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[ last lines ] xan: [ voiceover narration ] there are things you know without knowing. for duma, it was his wildness. for rip, his family. for me, it was my dad. everything he was, everything he believed in is now part of me. i was taking duma home, but he took me somewhere too. finding duma' s true home brought me back to mine and showed me that love doesn' t stop when time passes or you live in different places or somebody' s gone. that' s how it was with me and duma. see more »
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abeer zeibak haddad (director) is a palestinian filmmaker, theater director and actor. she teaches in this field at the bait - barel college. in 2011, haddad produced and directed her first documentary “duma” which received the best television and video professional production award at urban tv 2012 (madrid) and was nominated for the best documentary at the documentary forum competition .
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directed by stojan vujicic produced by lunar continues with its festival life .
united russia scrambled to address the drop in its support. sergei neverov, a top party official, was forced to deny rumours that boris gryzlov, the party chairman and speaker of the duma, would resign .
bristol palestine film festival is committed to providing an opportunity for moviegoers in the southwest to experience the lives of palestinian people through film. by bringing to bristol, palestinian film, art and culture we invite viewers to explore the multiple realities and identities of the palestinian people. it is this focus on humanness and the expression of the everyday lives of palestinians that is at the core the mission of this festival .
this years fourth edition of the short film festival in ljubljana will take place from 20 th – 25 th of august in ljubljana, slovenia .
a structured and strict concept of a powerful film festival has been formed, and you managed to prove its feasibility. congratulations on what you have achieved, luba. you' ve got proof of concept under your belt now! i thank sochi mayor anatoly pakhomov for supporting the new important film festival .
we are informing you that the deadline for project submissions to the matchmaking forum during the 65th edition of pula film festival is now extended until 26th of june .
yet the tide of discontent continues to grow .
it is clear that putin' s voter base has fallen apart ,
said pavlovsky .
the putin majority existed from 1999 to 2011 – this is the date of the end. i' m sure it was an unexpected surprise. he was sure voters would be enamoured of his return .
during a nightly porsche ride with his doting rascal xan, white south african farmer peter finds and adopts an orphaned cheetah cub, dubbed duma (just swahili for cheetah). it becomes the boy' s inseparable playmate, even taking it to bed. peter made clear from the start that the cheetah should be returned to the wild before its full adulthood. but the father is stricken down with a disease just before the cheetah could be returned. xan' s mother sells the farm and moves in with a city aunt. the cheetah escapes, but finds xan at school, where the new boy is bullied. he decides to run away to the mountains with duma. on the way they face countless perils, which courage, xan' s intelligence and duma' s instinct overcome. written by kgf vissers
anger has been steadily growing inside russia since putin, currently the prime minister, announced his intention to run for the presidency in a march 2012 vote. his united russia party fared poorly in a parliamentary vote on sunday, losing 77 seats in the duma, or lower house .
efa' s meeting, wenders, zulavski and paskaljević among the festival' s guests and a lifetime achievement award for claudia cardinale. serbian student film
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this thought - provoking and intimate film diary follows the director’s attempt to recreate her village’s lost history, including the story of her childhood hero suuad, the legendary local “bad girl. ”
the film is beautifully shot, – the women are shot from the back, looking out a window, one is looking out at the sea, or slightly distorted in a window or mirror. this element of anonymity in the film makes it so authentic and emphasizes the fact that these four women are a voice for all those who have suffered similar experiences in their youth. blog amy kronish
the film is beautifully shot, – the women are shot from the back, looking out a window, one is looking out at the sea, or slightly distorted in a window or mirror. this element of anonymity in the film makes it so authentic and emphasizes the fact that these four women are a voice for all those who have suffered similar experiences in their youth. blog amy kronish, israfilm blog
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duma (dolls in arabic) is the first film in the arab world to deal with the sexual assault of women and girls in palestinian society. director abeer, the creator of a puppet show which deals with sexual abuse in childhood, takes her camera and journeys from the north to the south of israel, documenting arab women who dare to reveal the sexual abuse they have endured in their close circle of family and friends. together they aim to break the systems of silence which were imposed not only by society, but also by the families who were meant to protect them .
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luba, this is a crucial time for artists to recover their voice, you are helping to restore the connection between all of us, film makers from all over the world. i applaud the philosophy that underpins what you are doing .
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admirable lubov balagova - kandour. president and producer of the “irida” first sochi international film awards. majestic woman and lady of the world. her motto - nothing is impossible. a woman of words and deeds. beautiful person and magnificent woman .
i am very pleased that this first international film festival is taking place in sochi; that the organisers’ initiative has been taken up by the ministry of culture of the russian federation and by leading figures in cinematography in our country and in great britain .
an inner perspective into the phenomena of sexual abuse in palestinian society. the creator of a puppet show ,
duma
( dolls in arabic), which deals with sexual abuse in childhood, decides to document arab women who dare to reveal the sexual abuse they endured in their close circle of family and friends. together they aim to break the systems of silence which were imposed by family and society .
we are informing you that the center for dramatic arts (cdu) from croatia opens a public call for the admission of audiovisual works to the second edition of the unseen mini film festival, to be held in cavtat from 26th of september – 1st of october 2018 .
the first press - conference on the topic of the 39 th edition of the international cinematographers film festival “manaki brothers” took place on 28 th of june in skopje, and the festival director, gena teodosievska, announced another rich edition offering various content and a multitude of novelties .
unesco venice office and the central european initiative are supporting this international roundtable on film distribution and development of innovative business models in the central and south - east european region held in the framework of the “sofia meetings” and the participation of numerous experts from the south - east european region and beyond .
duma (dolls in arabic) is based on stories of sexual abuse in arab society in israel. abeer, the creator of a puppet theater show which deals with the subject of sexual abuse during childhood, decides to take her camera and journey from the north to the south of the country and document women who have experienced sexual violence. in her journey she meets four women who dare to reveal the sexual abuse they endured in their close circle of family and friends. they all look for a way to express their pain and to break the silence that was imposed on them by their relatives and by society .
in 2008, shpilkin estimated that united russia actually won 277 seats in the duma instead of the constitutional majority of 315 that it was awarded. this time around, it is somewhat more difficult to tell how the alleged falsification might have influenced the results because half of the duma was elected from single - mandate districts, from which united russia got a majority of its deputies. shpilkin estimates united russia actually got about 40 percent of the party - list vote, which would have reduced its party - list seats from 140 to around 110. but, with a projected 343 deputies in the new parliament, united russia once again has enough votes to unilaterally alter the constitution. although pamfilova has promised to investigate reports of fraud and election officials have already annulled results in at least three polling stations, she maintains that there was no systematic falsification and that the vote was legitimate. on september 20, russia’s prosecutor - general’s office denied there were any significant violations during the voting and said the number of complaints was “significantly lower” than for previous elections. but videos recorded by official cameras from several polling stations seem to tell a different story. in almost all of them, local election officials can be seen working as teams to apparently stuff ballot boxes and prevent outsiders from observing their actions .
this year, the number of women in congress dropped for the first time since 1978. last year, women held only 15. 7 percent of board seats and 14. 4 percent of executive officer positions in fortune 500 companies. a new study shows that the number of women working as writers and directors on prime - time television programs dropped significantly in the 2010 - 11 season. women now account for only 15 percent of writers on the major television networks' prime - time dramas, comedies, and reality shows, down from 29 percent in the 2009 - 10 season. only 11 percent of directors in this year' s television season were women, compared with 16 percent last season, and only 25 percent of series creators, producers, executive producers, directors, writers, editors and directors of photography were women, representing a decline of two percentage points from last season. by every significant measure of social, political, and cultural power, today' s women are losing ground. the cultural climate of 2011 appears even less likely to produce a movie of comparable significance than it was 20 years ago .
based in malad west, mumbai, sameer lives a middle - classed lifestyle along with his live - in rather pushy girlfriend, shikha, who constantly questions and nags him several times during the day. he is employed with a bollywood film distribution firm owned by rajan mehra. when shikha decides to visit her family in indore, he is relieved and decides to live it up. things look up for him when rajan hires his gorgeous sister, sanjana, to work with him. both soon become close, and she accepts his proposal for marriage despite of being aware that he is in a relationship. watch what impact this news has on shikha .
pamfilova has said that such videos do not constitute proof of fraud and, shpilkin recalls, courts rejected dozens of fraud cases based on similar videos in 2012. shpilkin hopes his analysis will help pamfilova come to grips with what he sees as massive fraud embedded in russia’s election system from the ground up. “i am not entirely sure that ella pamfilova has a good understanding of the actions of the heads of polling stations on the ground, how they compile their protocols, how they fill in the data and submit it to their regional election commissions, ” shpilkin said. “moreover, she most likely does not understand how the results are aggregated and how many votes were added in for those 96, 000 polling stations. ” shpilkin emphasizes that his analysis does not mean that the genuine opposition parties that did not get seats in the duma would have, if not for the alleged falsification. “it is possible that some changes might have been seen on the local level in places like moscow and st. petersburg on the level of single - mandate districts, ” he said. “but on the level of federal party lists, the position of the opposition looks entirely hopeless. ”
callie khouri' s triumphant final image of the two heroines locking hands as louise drives them over a cliff is impossible to forget. some feminists fretted that this ending represented the ultimate punishment for the women' s defiant journey of self - discovery. although it' s implied that they commit suicide—we do not actually see them die—this was still a choice that they made, and one that struck them, and many viewers, as preferable to life in prison or death by lethal injection. if they were only able to live on their own terms for a single lost weekend, at least they would grant themselves the dignity of dying on those terms as well. in the world of the film, what other choice did they have? as louise says to thelma when thelma suggests that they turn themselves in ,
who' s gonna believe [ us ]? we just don' t live in that kind of world .
we still don' t .
something' s crossed over in me and i can' t go back ,
explains thelma ,
i mean, i just couldn' t live .
she has lost the desire and even the capacity to return to her old life of downtrodden domesticity and her brutish, domineering husband. earlier in the film louise tells her ,
you get what you settle for ,
and, by the movie' s end, both women are through with settling .
i don' t remember ever feelin' this awake ,
says thelma as they drive through the desert in the middle of the night, leaving their old lives behind .
everything looks different. you know what i mean... everything looks new. do you feel like that? like you' ve got something to look forward to ?
in today' s movies, getting a ring from a man has replaced authentic moments of personal transformation and spiritual awakening as the high point of women' s lives .
when asked in an interview why her heroines commit suicide at the film' s end, callie khouri famously responded :
to me, the ending was symbolic, not literal... we did everything possible to make sure you didn' t see a literal death. that you didn' t see the car land, you didn' t see a big puff of smoke come up out of the canyon. you were left with the image of them flying. they flew away, out of this world and into the mass unconscious. women who are completely free from all the shackles that restrain them have no place in this world. the world is not big enough to support them... i loved that ending and i loved the imagery. after all they went through, i didn' t want anybody to be able to touch them .
i share khouri' s sentiments about the ending, which i have always loved. to me, it represented not death or punishment but hope, and even a kind of radical, ultimate fulfillment. today, movies about women end with a wedding. even its proponents can hardly argue that the aim of marriage is to set women free .
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women of freedom follows the stories of women who were murdered in the name of ‘honor killing, ’ women whose lives are under threat, women who survived murder attempts, even that of a killer expressing remorse .
the documentary tries to unravel the social and political circumstances that have led to this custom. the murder of a young woman in my hometown of nazareth 43 years ago has left me agitated. in order to investigate the causes for this enduring phenomenon, i embark on a physical and emotional journey through israel and the palestinian authority .
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دمى (dolls in arabic) is based on stories of sexual abuse in palestinian society. abeer, the creator of a puppet theatre show which deals with the subject of sexual abuse during childhood, decides to take her camera and journey from the north to the south of palestine and document women who have experienced sexual violence. in her journey she meets five women who dare to reveal the sexual abuse they endured in their close circle of family and friends. they all look for a way to express their pain and to break the silence that was imposed on them by their relatives and by society .
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( dolls in arabic) is based on stories of sexual abuse in arab society in israel. abeer, the creator of a puppet theater show which deals with the subject of sexual abuse during childhood, decides to take her camera and journey from the north to the south of the country and document women who have experienced sexual violence. in her journey she meets four women who dare to reveal the sexual abuse they endured in their close circle of family and friends. they all look for a way to express their pain and to break the silence that was imposed on them by their relatives and by society .
although ella pamfilova, the chairman of russia' s election commission, has promised to investigate reports of fraud, she maintains that there was no systematic falsification and that the september 18 vote was legitimate .
robert coalson is a senior correspondent for rfe / rl who covers russia, the balkans, and eastern europe .
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with an introduction by anna ball, senior lecturer in postcolonial studies at nottingham trent university, and followed by a skype q & a; with director abeer zeiabk haddad .
russian riot police detain an protester in moscow as crowds opposed to vladimir putin take to the streets and post - election violence breaks out. photograph: reuters
anger over a russian election marred by widespread violations and the shadow of vladimir putin' s likely return to the presidency broke into violence late on monday, as thousands of people took to the streets of moscow in protest .
several thousand people, mainly young men, filled a park in central moscow to listen to liberal opposition leaders call for putin' s ousting in a meeting approved by city authorities. but when they attempted to march to lubyanka, the headquarters of the feared federal security service, they were met by baton - wielding riot police who beat some protesters over the head and dragged others into waiting lorries .
hundreds appeared to be detained, including opposition leaders alexey navalny and ilya yashin, as well as several journalists. police put the number of protesters at 2, 000 but some russian media said the number was as high as 8, 000 .
widespread examples of vote falsifications and violations – uploaded by the hundreds onto youtube, facebook and twitter – have fed the anger .
international observers also questioned the results. the organisation for security and co - operation in europe said the elections were marred by
frequent procedural violations and instances of apparent manipulations, including serious indications of ballot box stuffing
. britain' s foreign secretary, william hague, said the report raised
serious concerns
.
the us secretary of state, hillary clinton, said washington had
serious concerns
about the conduct of the elections .
russian voters deserve a full investigation of all credible reports of electoral fraud and manipulation and we hope in particular that then russian authorities will take action ,
said clinton .
people continued to register alleged cases of falsification on monday, and news reports on state television appeared to show results that implied turnout in some regions was as high as 146% .
yevgeniya chirikova, a popular environmental activist, called at the protest for the election results to be overturned. the crowd shouted
putin, leave !
, waved flags and blew whistles – a nod to his public booing and whistling at a martial arts event last month .
the protest, one of the biggest liberal opposition demonstrations in years, is certain to worry a state that looks down on opposition and is long unused to a politically conscious public .
groups of society have emerged that have a lively and serious interest in the vote results ,
said the political analyst gleb pavlovsky .
they consider the results their own and that' s why they are fighting for it .
several protesters told the guardian it was their first time at a political demonstration .
putin' s concern showed when he spoke to supporters at the united russia headquarters following sunday' s vote .
i want to speak to all citizens of the country and, above all, those who voted for the party ,
putin said, his eyebrows twitching and his gaze wandering as he betrayed his normally calm demeanour .
despite a rather complicated period in the life of our government, despite the [ financial ] crisis, despite the fact that responsibility for these difficulties has laid and lies on the shoulders of the party, people – our voters, our citizens – kept us as the leading political party in the country .
the vote on sunday delivered the first concrete sign of russians' unhappiness with putin' s announcement that he would seek re - election for the presidency. with 96% of the votes counted on monday, united russia' s support stood at just under 50% – a sharp drop from the 64% it received in elections four years ago .
observers are now anxiously watching how the former kgb agent will react .
on the one hand, there' s the option of moving towards the style of [ belarussian dictator alexander ] lukashenko ,
navalny said .
on the other, they realise that the harsher they are, the worse the result .
state - run television, from which the majority of russians get their news, has not covered anger at the election result. but the internet has become an increasing source of information for russia' s youth .
opposition leaders called for protesters to keep up the pressure until the march vote. however, putin' s victory is widely expected as no serious opposition candidate has been allowed to emerge. although his popularity rating has dropped from the sky - high levels he regularly enjoyed after first coming to power in 1999, it still remains higher than any other politician in the country, coming in at around 50% , according to most pollsters .
another party official, andrei vorobyov, sought to put to rest worries that the result could put putin' s victory in the presidential vote in doubt .
these 10 years [ that putin has been in power ], it is very easy to lose confidence, but today it is at a very high level ,
he said .
our candidate is known. it is putin, our leader, and we will do everything in our power to ensure that our candidate wins in the first round .
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when it was released in the summer of 1991, thelma & louise was declared
the first movie i' ve ever seen which told the downright truth
by a lesbian activist in los angeles and a
paean to transformative violence
by commentator john leo. new york daily news columnist richard johnson complained that it was
degrading to men
and
justifies armed robbery, manslaughter and chronic drunken driving as exercises in consciousness raising .
with a handful of exceptions, women loved it .
the movie starred susan sarandon and geena davis as friends who set off on a road trip and become outlaws after sarandon' s character shoots a would - be rapist. may marked its 20th anniversary. in 1992, screenwriter callie khouri became one of a handful of women to win an academy award for best original screenplay, and thelma & louise earned more than $ 45 million at the u. s. box office. sarandon and davis were each nominated in the best actress category, and director ridley scott was nominated for best director .
at a screening of
thelma & louise
earlier this month, i was struck by how many lines of dialogue i remembered word for word. i was only 9 when it came out in theaters and i didn' t see it until many years after it was released. when i finally did, at age 25, i was electrified. at 28, i was again entranced, silently mouthing my favorite lines along with sarandon and davis, laughing semi - hysterically at every sad - funny scene featuring thelma' s twitchy - eyed sexist jerk of a husband, and choking back a sob when louise bade her final farewell to jimmy .
after the screening, there was a panel discussion of how far women had come twenty years later .
this movie would never get made today ,
sighed one of the panelists, and the audience members murmured their assent. it' s shocking enough that it was distributed in 1991, but at least back then american women were experiencing something like momentum: anita hill stood up for herself at clarence thomas' s confirmation hearings, callie khouri won an oscar, and, when four women were simultaneously elected to the united states senate, 1992 was dubbed the
year of the woman .
there are no such movies today. the bechdel test (named for cartoonist alison bechdel) is a means of assessing a movie' s treatment of its female characters. in order to pass the test, a movie must have: (1) at least two women in it, (2) who talk to each other, (3) about something other than a man or men. a popular variant of the test additionally requires that both women have names. twenty years ago, thelma & louise passed the bechdel test easily. i can think of only three widely distributed movies that passed in the last year: something borrowed, bridesmaids, and the help. none approached the depth or level of nuance of thelma & louise, and only the help featured actresses of the same caliber as davis and sarandon .
bridesmaids is an enjoyably ribald comedy that dips a tentative toe in the darker waters of changing friendships, loneliness, and disillusionment. it' s frivolous and fun, but hardly earth - shattering, despite the tremendous amount of credit its makers were awarded for assembling a movie with a predominantly female cast. the overwrought and forgettable something borrowed only passes the bechdel test on a technicality: kate hudson and ginnifer goodwin spend about ten minutes of screen time discussing something other than a man or men. (that
something
is their longstanding friendship, which goodwin' s character ultimately trades in for a man). though inspiringly female - centric, the help is about women' s lives rather than individual women; it' s not focused enough to create main characters as vivid and enduring as thelma & louise .
thelma & louise is powerful in part because it' s about more than friendship. movies that examine the bonds between women are few and far between, but they exist, from beaches to terms of endearment, the color purple, steel magnolias, fried green tomatoes, and a league of their own. thelma & louise transcends the genre; it' s about transformation and liberation that at once intensely personal and deeply political. it' s about escaping, however fantastically, the agonizing constraints of gender, class, time, and place .
in 1991, even gossip columnist liz smith found thelma & louise' s liberation troubling, particularly its sexual aspect .
nobody in' thelma & louise' worries about aids, using condoms or encountering a serial killer ,
smith primly noted. surely the number of hollywood sex scenes that depict a character of any gender reaching for a condom mid - action is low. what really bothered people is that
thelma & louise
understood and realistically portrayed the way women experience sex. much has been made of brad pitt' s performance, which was widely hailed as his breakout role. he played a sweet - talking hitchhiker / felon who shows thelma
what all the fuss is about
in bed. their scenes together are funny, touching, and genuinely erotic .
khouri knew that women like context—thelma and her new friend didn' t have time to go to dinner and get to know each other, but their chemistry is believably established in the scenes they share together outside of bed. the actual sex scene stayed with me for years not because brad pitt had such a nice body—though he did—but because he and davis seemed to get along so well. you feel as if they like each other, not just each other' s bodies. they flirt and tease and laugh and play together. it was her first taste of real intimacy with a man that made the sex so good for thelma, not the way her lover' s body looked in jeans (although she liked that too). that scene possessed a humanity that is absent from every major movie sex scene i' ve watched since .
melissa silverstein, who writes and edits a blog called
women & hollywood ,
was among the panelists at the screening i attended .
thelma & louise is still a touchstone for so many people because it has never been recreated ,
she observed .
when a movie is successful, it' s usually recreated over and over and over again .
why didn' t thelma & louise usher in a new era for women in hollywood? as the reactions of certain critics in 1991 revealed, even smart, educated people are disturbed by female characters who assert control over their lives and bodies and aren' t punished for it. and as callie khouri told the observer in 2001 ,
bad guys get killed in every goddamn movie that gets made... that guy was the bad guy and he got killed. it was only because a woman did it that there was any controversy at all .
at least back then we got to have the controversy. today, we don' t make movies about women that are even worth fighting about. whenever i' m dispirited by the crassly sexist ethos that governs hollywood (as well as television, politics, and the corporate world) today, i think of
thelma and louise
and remember a time, not so long ago, when women were allowed to be human, if only in the movies .
raina lipsitz is a brooklyn - based writer. she writes frequently about race, gender, and popular culture .
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sochi has again confirmed its leading status as the country’s festival centre, where the most promising projects in the field of culture are realised .
i' m sure that every day of this wonderful project will contribute not only to greater international cultural cooperation, but also to an increase in interest in the european audience in russian cinematography .
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i liked it very much. directed and edited in a style much different from the one offered by hollywood movies, deals concrete problems of life. it' s a good lesson for young naive women, who under the influence of a burning passion, can take wrong decisions, from which will suffer all their life. it is also a good opportunity to see things from parent' s perspective - who opposed some of our decisions sometimes and we just couldn' t understand them .
how can be wrong when i know and i feel it' s good? parents just don' t understand! !
well, this movie shows you very clearly how something we felt it was perfectly good, can be awfully wrong...
duma ( dolls in arabic ) is a ground-breaking and controversial documentary about the abuse of women in arab and palestinian society . made by palestinian female director abeer zeibak haddad , it sheds light on sexual abuse of women in arab society . " duma is an extremely powerful documentary . brutally realistic ; revealingly provocative , and exceedingly enthralling . " ( dr. eylem atakav , huffington post ) . . 
duma (dolls in arabic) is a ground-breaking and controversial documentary about the abuse of women in arab and palestinian society. made by palestinian female director abeer zeibak haddad, it sheds light on sexual abuse of women in arab society. " duma is an extremely powerful documentary. brutally realistic; revealingly provocative, and exceedingly enthralling. " ( dr. eylem atakav, huffington post). .
duma (dolls in arabic) is a ground-breaking and controversial documentary about the abuse of women in arab and palestinian society. made by palestinian female director abeer zeibak haddad, it sheds light on sexual abuse of women in arab society. " duma is an extremely powerful documentary. brutally realistic; revealingly provocative, and exceedingly enthralling. " ( dr. eylem atakav, huffington post). .