I come from Sierra Leone, and I have been in Germany for about eight months. Being part of KINOASYL is a pleasure, because I am learning a lot from peoples’ cultures from different parts of the world. I am learning a lot from the processes involved in organising a film festival. I am participating in the KINOASYL project, because I want to show a film from my homeland that I watched some years ago with friends in Sierra Leone. This film is called “AMINATA” and it tells about the tradition of marrying young girls to older men in Africa.
This film from Sierra Leone deals with the problem of the early marriage of Aminata, the only daughter of poor parents. She is eager to go to school and get a Western education, but in her village only Islamic education is allowed for girls. At the age of 14, she is forced to marry the […]
