Duka's Dilemma - PREVIEW

Purchase: http://www.der.org/films/duka-dilemma.html Duka is a married woman and mother of five young children, living in Hamar, Southern Ethiopia. Ever since her husband married a beautiful, young, second wife, Duka has been in a state of emotional turmoil. Among the Hamar, who live with herds and cultivate small fields of sorghum in their remote, bush-covered country, men are allowed to marry more than one wife, but only a few men ever do so.

Duka wonders why her husband married again; did he find her too old, or was he turned off because of her chronic malaria? Also, she doesn't know what to make of the new wife who is silent and never expresses her feelings except in rage? And on top of this, her mother-in-law keeps making trouble and is angry with her son for marrying a second wife behind her back.

Personal and intimate, the film follows the drama of this family in crisis, the high points of which are the birth of the new wife's child, and nine months later, a heated dispute between the mother-in-law and her son, which leads to the building of a new house.

Duka, her husband, her mother-in-law and the second wife voice their different points of view as events proceed and the crisis finally gets resolved. The language of the film is Hamar, and is translated by subtitles. There is no need for extra commentary from the filmmakers, whose presence and close relationship to the people are always evident.

a film by Jean Lydall and Kaira Strecker
distributed by Documentary Educational Resources

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Africa
• Ethiopia
• Hamar
• family
• gender
• politics
• anthropology
• ethnography
• documentary
• film

[kisfrtdm]

@hannaxyz123 saggy breasts are what nursed humanity. perky breast are so because women in your culture don't breast feed and don't work like these women do. and most women who have kids breasts start to sag and then their self esteem goes down because our culture says they have to be "pretty" for me to look at and want to fuck. you're ideal of the woman body is skewed towards degradation, get a mind and learn to respect the mother of humanity, the African woman.

[paapakobe]

It's great to see the life of Africa people presented in our own words and sounds, without ignorant narration. Let people learn about the complexities and regular soap-opera of life, commonalities of all people. Not just soundless, exotic, impersonal images. thanks. This is a DVD worth buying.

[SubZeroKO]

Обезьяны

[smukase]

@kisfrtdm nuff said

[omoibile]

There is so much resemblance between this people and the Jarawas of India

[BronzeSista]

I think wife number 1 has a natural beauty.

[HairH2O]

Are they Dinka or Hamar? They look more Hamar or are they the same?

[DorianDietrichBlog]

what kind of metals do they make their jewellery from

[h4tchetman]

Wow this was a great video no annoying voice over, I actully got to hear the language its really nice.

[cwegers1]

@hannaxyz123 you should educate your brain