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    The Day I Will Never Forget

    Kim Longinotto 2004 England Documentary color 92min 35mm
    Although the law has forbidden the horrible custom-circumcise, some traditional villages in Kenya still exist it. In this film---The Day I Will Never Forget. The director photographed several young female who have experienced circumcision and share how fearful when they had suffered both in psychical and physical. Some female doctors and nurses who against circumcise have traveled around to show the scare that circumcise bring to those women. Fifteen young girls try to stop their parents force them to accept circumcise by laws, those brave women fight for their future without fear of the pressure that the society gives them...

    Director

    Kim Longinotto

    Kim Longinotto studied camera and directing at England's National Film School. In 1986, Longinotto formed the production company Twentieth Century Vixen with Claire Hunt. Together they made Fireraiser, a look at the bombing of Dresden; Eat the Kimono, about the controversial Japanese feminist performer Hanayagi Genshu; Hidden Faces, the internationally acclaimed, collaborative documentary with/about Egyptian women; and The Good Wife of Tokyo in which they examine women, love and marriage in Japanese society.

    Kim Longinotto

    2005 Sister in Law

    2002 Day I Will Never Forget

    2000 Gaea Girls

    1998 Divorce Iranian Style

    1996 Rock Wives(ㄒV)

    1995 Shinjuku Boys

    1994 Dream Girls

    1992 Good Wife of Tokyo

    1990 Hidden Faces

    1989 Eat the Kimono

    1982 Underage

    1976 Pride of Place

    1975 Theatre Girls

    Director/Producer/Cinematographer/ Kim Longinotto

    Writing credits/ Mary Milton

    Editors/ Andrew Willsmore

    Music/ Charlie Wilston

    Sound/ Mary Milton

    Casts/ Fardhosa Ali Mohamed, Fouzia Hassan

    Print Source: Women Make Movies

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