African cinema's founding father, 81-year-old Ousmane Sembene, continues to be its most fiery, provocative spirit. Extending the strong feminist consciousness that marked his previous triumph Faat Kine (as well as such earlier classics as Black Girl and Ceddo), Moolaade is a rousing polemic directed against the stillcommon African practice of female circumcision. Winner of the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury --Special Mention and the Grand Prize in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, Moolaade also won Special Jury Award at the Marrakech International Film Festival (2004), the Jury Award at the Los Angeles Pan African Film Festival (2005), and the NSFC Award for Best Foreign Language Film (2005). New Yorker Films