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Anne-Laure Folly
Togolese documentary filmmaker (born )
Anne-Laure Folly | |
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| Born | () March 31, (age&#;70) Togo |
| Occupation | Filmmaker |
| Awards | Silver Medal, Monte Carlo Television Festival, for Femmes aux yeux ouverts |
Anne-Laure Folly (born March 31, ) is a documentary film maker from Togo.
Anne laure folly biography
Work
In Anne-Laure Folly won the silver medal at the Monte Carlo Television Festival for her documentary Femmes aux yeux ouverts (Women with eyes open). This film records women from Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Senegal discussing their lives.
The opening sequence of this film, her second, has a young woman staring into the camera and reciting the poem:
A good woman should obey her husband at all times,
A good woman should not know how to read,
A good woman's eyes should not be open.
The poem is by Monique Ilboudo of Burkina Faso, one of the women portrayed in the documentary.
The film lets different women from Mali, Senegal, Burkina Faso and Benin talk ab