Canadian women in education
Women’s education experiences around the world
Brave girls (2018)
Desai, Y. (Director)., & Walton, E. (Director). Aya Arts and Media. [Streaming Video]
Filmed over 4 years, Brave Girls explores the urgent questions about the empowerment of women in the developing world from the perspective of the women living those questions and facing the consequences of answering them.
Set in 1998 Turkey, The Final Exam is a classroom drama based on actual events. Upholding new academic policy, a university professor tells a devout young Muslim woman to remove her headscarf in order to write a final exam. Seeing her distress, the young man beside her finds a "strategic" way to guard her privacy.