Circumcized

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Country:Sudan

Director:Gudallah Gubara

Program:Eastern Parallels

Year: 
1999

Duration: 
20

Summary:

The elder filmmaker makes a strong statement against the practices of circumcision as they performed around Africa and particularly Sudan. The film is typical of the later Gubara films which are determined to take a stand against the tyrranies that are still keeping people down. Gubara has stated that circumcision is ‘Nothing more than a bad habit.’
Gudallah Gubara played an important role in the development of the cinema in Africa and was a practicing cameraman with the colonial film unit fully fifteen years before the first sub-saharan films were made. His work has been largely in the documentary and he has amassed an archive of over three hundred films in a period of almost sixty years of production.