Women Hold Up Half the Sky

WHAT WAS PROMISED,* 2008, Iraq, 46 min. This documentary film is about the women who joined Iraq’s new security forces after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. Director Roshini Thinakaran is a filmmaker and a 2007 National Geographic Emerging Explorer. In Arabic with English subtitles.

AS WE FORGIVE, 2008, Rwanda, 53 min. Two women, Rosaria and Chantal, come face-to-face with the men who slaughtered their families during the 1994 Rwandan genocide in this redemptive story. Dir. Laura Waters Hinson is a filmmaker and photographer based in the Washington, D.C., area. In English and Kinyarwanda with English subtitles.