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Title Divorce Iranian style / a film by Kim Longinotto & Ziba Mir-Hosseini ; a Twentieth Century Vixen Production for Channel Four
Published [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (streaming video file) (approximately 77 min.) : sound, color
Summary A film by Kim Longinotto and Ziba Mir-Hosseini. Hilarious, tragic, stirring, this fly-on-the-wall look at several weeks in an Iranian divorce court provides a unique window into the intimate circumstances of Iranian women's lives. Following Jamileh, whose husband beats her; Ziba, a 16-year-old trying to divorce her 38-year-old husband; and Maryam, who is desperately fighting to gain custody of her daughters, this deadpan chronicle showcases the strength, ingenuity, and guile with which they confront biased laws, a Kafaka-esque administrative system, and their husbands' and families' rage to gain divorces. With the barest of commentary, acclaimed director Kim Longinotto turns her cameras on the court and lets it tell its own story. Dispelling images of Iran as a country of war, hostages, and "fatwas", and Iranian women as passive victims of a terrible system, this film is a subtle, fascinating look at women's lives in a country which is little known to most Americans. Directed by Kim Longinotto and Ziba Mir-Hosseini, author of MARRIAGE ON TRIAL: A STUDY OF ISLAMIC FAMILY LAW
Notes Title from title frames
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1998
This version distributed by Women Make Movies
Credits Camera, Kim Longinotto ; editor, Barrie Vince
Performer Narrator, Joanna Rosenthall
Notes In English with some parts in Farsi with English subtitles
Subject Divorce -- Iran
Divorce (Islamic law) -- Iran
Marriage -- Iran
Marriage (Islamic law) -- Iran
Women -- Iran -- Social conditions
Divorce.
Divorce (Islamic law)
Marriage.
Marriage (Islamic law)
Women -- Social conditions.
Iran.
Genre/Form Internet videos.
Documentary films.
Feature films.
Nonfiction films.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Feature films.
Internet videos.
Documentaires.
Films autres que de fiction.
Vidéos sur Internet.
Form Streaming video
Author Longinotto, Kim, film director, director of photography.
Mir-Hosseini, Ziba, film director.
Rosenthall, Joanna, narrator
Vince, Barrie, 1933- editor of moving image work.
Twentieth Century Vixen (Firm), production company.
Channel Four (Great Britain), production company.
Women Make Movies (Firm), film distributor.
Kanopy (Firm), publisher.