Liz Gilbert (Roberts) had everything a modern woman is supposed to dream of having - a husband, a house, a successful career - yet like so many others, she found herself lost, confused, and searching for what she really wanted in life. Newly divorced and at a crossroads, Gilbert steps out of her comfort zone, risking everything to change her life, embarking on a journey around the world that becomes a quest for self-discovery. In her travels, she discovers the true pleasure of nourishment by eating in Italy; the power of prayer in India, and, finally and unexpectedly, the inner peace and balance of true love in Bali. Based upon the bestselling memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert.
Issue d'une famille de nomades somaliens, Waris connaît une enfance rude mais heureuse car entourée des siens. Mais quand son père décide de la marier à l'âge de 13 ans, Waris prend la fuite. Traversant le désert au péril de sa vie, elle atteint la ville de Mogadiscio et retrouve sa grand-mère. Cette dernière lui fait quitter le pays en lui trouvant un poste de " bonne à tout faire " à l'ambassade de Somalie à Londres. Waris y travaille pendant 6 ans, telle une esclave, totalement recluse et coupée du monde extérieur. Quand la guerre civile éclate en Somalie, l'ambassade ferme. Waris se retrouve livrée à elle-même dans les rues de Londres, ne sachant pas un mot d'anglais. C'est alors qu'elle rencontre Marilyn avec qui elle se lie d'amitié. Cette jeune femme, délurée et originale, l'héberge et l'aide à trouver un emploi. Travaillant dans un fast food, Waris est remarquée par un célèbre photographe de mode. Grâce à lui, elle rejoint une agence de mannequins. Malgré de nombreuses péripéties, elle devient rapidement l'un des plus grands top model international...
Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her beloved uncle is convinced it was murder and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) and the tattooed and troubled but resourceful computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) to investigate. When the pair link Harriets disappearance to a number of grotesque murders from almost forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark and appalling family history. But the Vangers are a secretive clan, and Blomkvist and Salander are about to find out just how far they are prepared to go to protect themselves.
Includo nella lista questo film per la tematica della violenza contro le donne e per il personaggio di Lisbeth, un'esperta informatica che, con la sua forza ed il suo coraggio, le vendicherà.
In an African village this is the day when six 4-9-year-old girls are to be circumcised. All children know that the operation is horrible torture and sometimes lethal, and all adults know that some circumcised women can only give birth by Caesarean section. Two of the girls have drowned themselves in the well to escape the operation. The four other girls seek "magical protection" (moolaadé) by a woman (Colle) who seven years before refused to have her daughter circumcised. Moolaadé is indicated by a coloured rope. But no one would dare step over and fetch the children. Moolaadé can only be revoked by Colle herself. Her husband's relatives persuade him to whip her in public into revoking. Opposite groups of women shout to her to revoke or to be steadfast, but no woman interferes. When Colle is at the wedge of fainting, the merchant takes action and stops the maltreatment. Therefore he is hunted out of the village and, when out of sight, murdered.
Osama (Dari: أسامة) is a 2003 film made in Afghanistan. It tells a story about a young girl who disguises as a boy, Osama, that exposes the cruelty of the Taliban, and was the first film to be shot entirely in that country since 1996, when the Taliban régime banned the creation of all films. The film was an international co-production between companies in Afghanistan, the Netherlands, Japan, Ireland and Iran.
MacKenzie Allen becomes the first woman American president after she ascends to the job following the death of president Teddy Bridges.
Inspiring and empowering. Non come come altrimenti si possa definure una serie televisiva che ha come protagonista una donna presidente degli Stati Uniti.
This is a love story set in the steppes of Central Asia of today. Temür a thirty year old Kazakh decides to start life again in his ancestral village in the Kyrghyz Mountains. He discovers soon after his arrival that he is a misfit in this settlement of old conservative Islamic men,some women and children. The only ray of hope for him is Amira a young married woman who waits in frustration for her absentee husband - a Mujahideen. Temur watches sorrowfully as the individual village stories unfold at the same as he tries to help the community out in any way he can. In this way he comes closer to Amira and Taib, her young brother-in-law. In a dead end situation the lovers decide to leave the settlement and travel to a place that would hold out with their dreams.
"The Sensei" takes place in the early 80's, during the beginning of the AIDS epidemic. After a five year absence, Karen O'Neil, haunted by the death of her husband-to-be, boxer Mark Corey, returns to her hometown to reunite with her family who are leaders within their church and operate a successful martial arts business. After a lonely gay teenager named McClain Evans, is severely beaten, his mother asks Karen to take Mcclain as her secret pupil and teach him the martial way. When the secret gets out that she's his teacher, this manifest a series of events that effect her and her family.
Drama about a woman who assists her friend to arrange an illegal abortion in 1980's Romania.
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A lot of cases like this happened in Romania before '89, this is just the telling of one of them. I for one, didn't enjoy this movie, I don't like to remember stuff like that. Take everything for granted in the movie, stop asking why she did it, why this, why that. This things really happened, and believe me, they really had their motive. Making abortions illegal is the worst thing that happened to women in that era
Jasira, a 13-year-old Arab-American girl, navigates the confusing and frightening path of adolescence and her own sexual awakening. When Jasira's mother sends her to Houston to live with her strict Lebanese father, she quickly learns that her new neighbors find her and her father a curiosity. Worse, her budding womanhood makes her traditional and hot-tempered father uncomfortable. Lonely in this new environment, Jasira seeks friendship and acceptance from her neighbors Mr. Vuoso, an Army reservist, and Melina, a meddling but caring expectant mother. Thrown into an unfamiliar suburban world, Jasira must confront racism and hypocrisy at home and at school - and at the same time struggle to make sense of her raging hormones and newfound sexuality. Her boyfriend, Thomas, though a few years older, provides some comfort - but even that relationship causes problems when her father discovers that Thomas is black. Surrounded by adults who are just as lost as she is, Jasira yearns for understanding, even amidst often brutal acts.
