Visions of Africa: Contemporary African Cinema
Presents:
October 14, 2009, Wednesday
7:00 pm, Luce Hall Auditorium-Yale University
34 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, CT
LUMO
Directed by Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt and
Nelson Walker III (2006)
Lumo is an intimate look into a woman’s tragedy and
healing process, and, by extension, into the scourge of
rape that marks the war-torn politics of central Africa.
Lumo is also the story of a remarkable African hospital
that works tirelessly to restore the physical and mental
health of women suffering in an epidemic of fistula
caused by rape. The hospital’s self-called “Mamas,”African women who work tirelessly as healers, even flout traditional prejudice and government policy by
leading a march in defense of women’s human rights.
But Lumo remains most of all,Lumo Sinai’s story as she
struggles through four failed surgeries and searches for
strength to face the future—whatever the outcome of
one more surgery by the hospital’s dedicated doctors.
Please join us!
Comments