Desert Flower - a very moving film about Waris Dirie and her fight against female circumcision

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Desert Flower (UK/Germany/Austria, 2009)
Seen: Wednesday, 31st March 2010 (cinema)
Runtime: 120′
Director: Sherry Horman
Cast: Liya Kebede, Sally Hawkins, Craig Parkinson, Meera Syal, Anthony Mackie, Juliet Stevenson, Timothy Spall
Production House: Desert Flower Filmproductions
Plot: (from imdb)
The autobiography of a Somalian nomad circumcised at 3, sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally [...]

The Hurt Locker - a pretty evenhanded account of what being stationed in Iraq is like

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The Hurt Locker (USA, 2008)
Seen: ??? sometime in March, didn’t note down the date :-/ (cinema, special screening)
Runtime: 131′
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Cast: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce, Ralph Fiennes
Production House: Voltage Pictures, Grosvenor Park Media
Plot: (from imdb)
Iraq. Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite [...]