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Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A feisty, Bangladeshi teen-aged painter sets out on a quest to save her ailing father. Her artistic gift has blossomed with his encouragement but hasn't yet proven financially rewarding. Naima's mother dashes such childish dreams, which sends the frustrated teen off to the big city, determined to earn money for the family's survival. And she does, by disguising herself as a boy to get a job as a rickshaw driver. Still, Naima's creative drive has her...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A young girl fulfills her dreams in this video treatment of the acclaimed Pura Belpre' Award winner. -- Girls cannot be drummers. No one questioned that rule; until one dream girl. When at last her dream-bright music was heard, it was decided everybody should be free to drum and dream!
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
Maintaining a household and stoically submitting to conjugal duty are the skills Paulette Van Der Beck teaches with fervor in her homemaker's institute. Her certainties are shaken when she finds herself widowed and ruined. Is she rattled by the return of her first love or the wind of freedom in May '68? What if the good wife finally became a free woman?
4) The Race
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Mary, an 11-year-old girl from a poor rural community in Northern Ireland, has big dreams of becoming a racing driver. When the local rich big-wig decides to build a go-kart racetrack, Mary dares to compete in the male-dominated sport against the wishes of her parents, her school, and the community. With the help of her friend Tom, her perseverance will eventually win over the hearts of those who scorn her.
5) Albert Nobbs
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A woman passes as a man in order to work and survive in 19th century Ireland. Some thirty years after donning men's clothing, she finds herself trapped in a prison of her own making.
6) Orlando
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Orlando is an English nobleman who defies the laws of nature with surprising results. Immortal and highly imaginative, he undergoes a series of extraordinary transformations which humorously and hauntingly illustrate the eternal war between the sexes.
Pub. Date
2013
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Mulan is a young girl born into a military family. She has no male heirs to carry on the family name. When her father is summoned for battle, she disguises herself as a male soldier rather than exposing her ailing father of the horrors on the battlefield. As the invasion from the other armies draws near, Mulan's remarkable insight and unfailing courage prove her worth as a true leader.
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