Alice Walker unflinching: 100 million women's silenced stories finally spoken.
WARRIOR MARKS is a poetic and political film about female genital mutilation from the director of A PLACE OF RAGE, presented by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of THE COLOR PURPLE and POSSESSING THE SECRET OF JOY. Female genital mutilation affects one hundred million of the world’s women and this remarkable film unlocks some of the cultural and political complexities surrounding this issue. Interviews with women from Senegal, Gambia, Burkino Faso, the United States and England who are concerned with and affected by genital mutilation are intercut with Walker’s own personal reflections on the subject.
Direction
Parmar weaves poetry and politics without exploitation.
Writing
Walker's narration: personal, furious, devastatingly clear.
Director
Pratibha Parmar
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released alongside Walker's novel 'Possessing the Secret of Joy,' this formed a rare dual-medium intervention—fiction and documentary weaponized together.
Parmar, a British Indian lesbian filmmaker, was accused by some critics of Western gaze despite her collaborative approach; the debate around who documents whose bodies remains unresolved.
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