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Beryl Magoko 

In Search

Kenya - 2018 - 90 min - Documentary

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Synopsis

Un voyage vers la féminité...

Ayant grandit dans un village au Kenya, Beryl pensait que toutes les femmes du monde entier devaient être "excisées" en vivant à un jeune âge, une Mutilation Génitale Féminine.

Dans son documentaire dirigé par l'auteur (elle-même) In Search..., elle explore le dilemme émotionnel en parlant avec des femmes ayant vécu des expériences similaires aux siennes. Beryl essaie de découvrir, pour elle-même, si elle devrait subir l'opération de réparation, une seconde fois un voyage dans l'inconnu.

A journey towards womanhood ...

Having grown up in a village in Kenya, Beryl believed that all women around the world should undergo "excision", hence, living from a young age, a Female Genital Mutilation.

In her documentary In Search..., she explores this emotional dilemma by speaking with women who have had similar experiences to hers. Beryl attempts to discover for herself, if she should undergo the repair operation, a second time into a journey into the unknown.

Biographie | Biography

Beryl Magoko et une réalisatrice Kenyanne. Son premier film The Cut (La Coupure) a reçu plusieurs prix internationaux.

Après ses études en Ouganda, elle déménage en Allemagne pour améliorer ses compétences cinématographiques à KHM à Cologne.

In Search... a fait sa première à Liepzig et a gagné le Prix du Public Leipziger Ring et le Prix du Meilleur Documentaire Etudiant au Festival International de Films Documentaires d'Amsterdam.

Beryl Magoko is a Kenyan director. Her first film The Cut received several international awards.

After studying in Uganda, she moved to Germany to continue her cinematographic studies at KHM in Cologne.

In Search premiered in Liepzig and won the Public Leipziger Ring Award and the Best Student Documentary Award at the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam.

Ndiva Women’s Film Festival 2019: In Search by Beryl Magoko (Kenya)

Ndiva Women’s Film Festival 

(Ghana)

NWFF 2019

In Search (2018)

Beryl Magoko

Documentary

Synopsis

A courageous and determined young woman talks about her experiences going through Female Genital Mutilation and the need to undergo reconstructive surgery on her genitals. Beryl is trying to find out whether she should undergo this surgery, a journey into the unknown for a second time. (90 min.) 

At 10, director Beryl Magoko suffered female genital mutilation (FGM). She now knows reconstructive surgery is a possibility, but she’s not sure whether it will help her feel better. Talking to other victims and reviewing her past, she will try to understand what happened.

Recalling her childhood in a rural village in Kenya, as a little girl Beryl Magoko thought it was a simple rite of passage to adult life and acceptance within her community, but no one warned her of the physical and emotional pain, nor the humiliation that this would entail in the future. In Search explores the director’s own emotional dilemmas and those of other women who have gone through the same experience. Source: http://www.film-documentaire.fr/4DACTION/w_fiche_film/56233_1

Biography

Beryl Magoko was born and raised in Komotobo (Kuria - Kenya). After studying Graphic Design at Mombasa Polytechnic she went to Uganda at Kampala University, initially in mass communication, then Film-TV-Video- Production. During this time she worked on different films as sound recordist and camera woman. Encourage by her professor Andreas Frowein she choose a very difficult topic for her diploma film: FGM.

FESPACO 2013 - Beryl Magoko : "The Cut"

Beryl Magoko

Fespaco 2013 - Documentary | Documentaire

The Cut (2012)

Beryl Magoko (Kenya)

[English]

Beryl Magoko was born and raised in Komotobo (Kuria - Kenya). After studying Graphic Design at Mombasa Polytechnic she went to Uganda at Kampala University, initially in mass communication, then Film-TV-Video- Production. During this time she worked on different films as sound recordist and camera woman. Encourage by her professor Andreas Frowein she choose a very difficult topic for her diploma film: FGM. At the moment she is working on two new films, both deal with difficult situations that African women confront.

[Français]

Béryl Magoko est née et a été  élevée à Komotobo parmi les Kuria au Kenya. Après ses études en graphisme à Mombasa Polytechnic elle est partie en Ouganda à l'Université de Kampala d'abord pour étudié la communication de masse, puis les études de Film-TV-Video Production. Pendant cette période elle a travaillé sur divers films en tant que technicienne du son et cadreuse. Encouragée par son professeur Andreas Frowein, elle a traité un sujet  très sensible pour son film de fin d'étude : le MGF. À présent elle travaille sur deux films dont le sujet continue de traiter de femmes et de situations sensibles.

Synopsis

[English]

A circumcised girl is like a stone…

The Kuria in Kenya and Tanzania are still practicing Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) as a ritual. It is painful and even dangerous. The older generation and peer pressure want to uphold the legacy of the ancestors… but the effect of this generational practice has created a mixed feeling in the young generation in the 21st century. So what can human right activists do?

[Français]

Une femme excisée est comme une pierre…

Les Kuria au Kenya et en Tanzanie pratiquent encore la mutilation génitale féminine (MGF) en tant que rite, ce qui est très douloureux et même dangereux. Les personnes de les générations précédentes  ainsi que la pression de la communauté essayent de conservé l´héritage des ancêtres. Mais les effets de cette pratique qui continue de génération en génération engendrent des sentiments mitigés parmi la génération des jeunes du 21ème siècle. Que peuvent faire alors les militants de droits de la personne ?

Source :  thecutdocumentary.wordpress.com