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Films: 4th World Conference on Women, Beijing 1995

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TAPE 5

Pretty Baby
Scotland
Production Company: Karpus Productions
Producer/Director: Cassandra McGrogan
Intimate interviews with three young mothers reveal the human stories behind the UK's teenage pregnancy rate, the highest in Europe.

Looking at Ourselves from Within
Cuba
Broadcaster: Insitituto Cubano de Radio y TV
Producer/Director: Tania Teresa Licea Jimenez
Teenagers talk on the streets of Cayo Hueso, a middle class neighbourhood in Havana, about the legendary machismo of Latin American societies.

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India
Production Company: Project SMITA
Director: Vinta Nanda
Film-maker, Vinta Nanda's, odyssey across India, uncovering the "bizarre realities" of women's lives across the country.

Bad Dreams
Czech Republic
Broadcaster: Czech TV
"I want to work abroad" say Czech teenagers. Atmospheric dramatisations show what happened to other girls who followed that dream, only to find themselves sold into the sex industry, far away from home.

A Break with Tradition
Norway
Broadcaster: Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation
Executive Producer: Gerd Inger Polden
A picture of the remarkable solidarity between men and women, religious leaders and the faithful, in changing attitudes to FGM (female genital mutilation) in Senegal.