Femmes aux Yeux Ouverts (Women with Open Eyes)
Directed by Anne-Laure Folly, Togo, 1994. 52 minutes.

Source: California Newsreel

A film about African women is a rarity, even more one made by an African woman. In Women with Open Eyes, award-winning Togolese filmmaker Anne-Laure Folly presents portraits of contemporary women in four West African countries: Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal, and Benin. The film asks: what role are women playing in Africa's current opening to democracy? It shows how African women are beginning to speak out and organize to reshape key aspects of their lives including marital rights, sexual health and reproduction, women's role in the economy, female genital mutilation, and more.