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Divorce Iranian Style

Screening on Film
Directed by Kim Longinotto and Ziba Mir-Hosseini.
UK/Iran, 1998, 16mm, color, 80 min.
Farsi with English subtitles.

In a small Tehran courtroom, the stories of three strong-willed women unfold as they employ reason, charm, pleas for sympathy, anger, and even a disarming wit to win what they each desperately need—a divorce. Divorce Iranian Style offers a unique window into the impassioned but very practical business of divorce (and marriage) in the lives of three Iranian women: Jamileh, who was saved by her own son from the hands of her abusive husband; the outspoken teenaged Zibah, who proudly stands up to her thirty-eight-year-old husband and his family; and the remarried Maryam, who is desperate to regain custody of her two daughters.

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