Goldwidows: Women in Lesotho (1990)

Genre

documentary film

Country

Lesotho, South Africa

Elsewhere

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How it feels

This documentary looks at the lives of Basotho women whose husbands work in South African gold mines. It shows their daily struggles and the impact of the mining system on their families.

observationalintrospectivegroundedquietly sombereverydayinformativerestrainedsocially conscious

What happens

Goldwidows: Women in Lesotho est un film documentaire sud-africain réalisé par Don Edkins en 1990. Il est consacré aux conditions de vie des femmes des mineurs basotho travaillant au Lesotho. Le même réalisateur a ensuite consacré un autre documentaire à la vie de ces mineurs en Afrique du Sud (The Color of Gold). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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