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    Sisters in Law

    Kim Longinotto Florence Ayisi 2005 UK Documentary color 104min Multi-language 35mm
    Directed by Kim Longinotto, Sisters In Law is a quiet, understated documentary that delves into local courtroom drama in a small town in Cameroon, West Africa, by following the state prosecutor and judge - both women - as they fight sexist attitudes and societal norms with a keen knowledge of the law, an acute desire for justice and their own firm brand of compassion.

    Longinotto has a knack for finding the universal in the particular, slowly unraveling the inner workings of situations rarely explored on film. Shot over four months, the film delicately weaves together courtroom and small-town life, showing how brave personal battles are also profoundly political: a six-year old girl flees her abusive aunt, a woman decides to end her cruel marriage and take her husband to court, and a young girl accuses her neighbor of rape.

    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.

    Florence Ayisi

    Florence Ayisi was born in Cameroon, West Africa. She obtained a degree in English from the University of Yaoundé, Cameroon. Later she moved to Britain to pursue postgraduate studies in Film and Television. Florence is currently senior lecturer at the International Film School Wales, University of Wales, Newport. Her teaching and research interests include producing, directing, editing, African cinema audiences, representation, women in/and film, cultural identity and indigenous images in film.

    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

    Florence Ayisi

    2007 Zanzibar Soccer Queens

    2005 Sisters In Law

             My Mother: ISANGE

    Producer: Kim Longinotto

    Director: Kim Longinotto, Florence Ayisi

    Cinematographer: Kim Longinotto

    Editor: Ollie Huddleston

    Sound: Mary Milton

    Music: D'Gray

    Language: Multi-language

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    Tel: +44 207 359 7368

    E-mail: kim@tgraham.demon.co.uk

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