I came across the following note I made a year ago. I have yet to see these movies, but still want to.
Thomas Hibbs concluded his recent review of Hotel Rwanda by mentioning two other movies that sound well worth seeing:
"With Hotel Rwanda, last summer's Osama (a harrowing and captivating tale of a girl's attempt to secure a job to assist her family by disguising herself as a male under the ruthless Taliban regime in Afghanistan), and the just-released Moolaade (a deeply critical look at the practice of female circumcision in Africa), a number of current films about non-Western society manage to captivate, inspire, and educate. These films also reveal the moral poverty and political impotence of certain still-trendy proclamations of multiculturalism. Instead of railing against imperialism, these films face squarely the moral and political deficiencies inherent in a number of non-Western cultures and regimes. Even as they provide Americans with an introduction to cultures in many ways quite alien to our own, these films appeal to and refine a moral sensibility that largely transcends the specificity of culture."