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Jazz Mama is a documentary film.
Synopsis
Jazz Mama is both a film and a movement inspired by the uncompromising strength and dignity of Congolese women despite the obstacles and violence they face. Jazz Mama aims to bring awareness to gender based violence in Congo without reducing the women to victims whose lives are circumscribed by rape, but instead to recognize that, while sexual violence is indeed a devastating problem, these women are often not only survivors but the pillars of the community.
"The rape of the land, the mutilation of the flesh." La femme Congolaise - courageous and industrious despite the vicissitudes and the turbulence of life. She continues to fight for herself, taking on professions previously reserved for men. More often than not she must pay her children's school fees and compensate for her husband who is either underpaid, unemployed, or absent.
She sells kikwembe at Zando market; she is an engineer repairing electronics on the corner of the street, she is a designer, a stylist, minister, or teacher.
Demonstrating their incredible strength and their faith in their ability to continue their own advancement, these women stand strong in their communities even as they denounce the rape and the violence they experience.
"Both earth and mother, she is the foundation, like Kinshasa herself, scorned and beloved."
Awards
Zanzibar International Film Festival 2010
References
African Film Festival of Cordoba-FCAT (license CC BY-SA-3.0)
External links
Official website
Jazz Mama at IMDb
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Big Mama King
- Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival
- Isyana Sarasvati
- Spirit of Jazz
- Jazz (novel)
- Oh Mama
- Ermy Kullit
- Mamamia Show
- Tasyi Athasyia
- Citra Scholastika
- Jazz Mama
- The Mamas & the Papas
- Kulu Sé Mama
- Heavy Weather (album)
- Cass Elliot
- Mama Ohandja
- Big Mama (song)
- MAMA Festivals
- Big Mama Thornton
- Brussels Jazz Orchestra
