Project Detail

Divorce Iranian Style

Name: Divorce Iranian Style
Director: Kim Longinotto, Ziba Mir-Hosseini
Genre: Woman Director, Asian
Released: 1998
Duration: 80 minutes

Mr. Jamshidi

Synopsis

In a small Tehran courtroom, the stories of three strong-willed women unfold as they use reason, charm, pleas for sympathy, anger, even a disarming wit to win what they each need - a divorce. Divorce Iranian Style is a unique window into the impassioned but very practical business of divorce - and marriage - in three Iranian women's lives. Jamileh, whose son saved her from the hand of her abusive husband; Ziba, an outspoken 16-year-old who proudly stands up to her 38 year-old husband and his family; and Maryam, remarried and desperate to regain custody of her two daughters. Stirring and poignant, this fly-on-the-wall look into the real circumstances of Iranian women's lives shatters the stereotype of women as passive victims in the Muslim world. (Edinburgh Film Festival Review)

Details

Year: 1998
Running time: 80 minutes
Format: 16mm, BetaSP, DigiBeta
Director: Kim Longinotto, Ziba Mir-Hosseini
Producer: Kim Longinotto
Editor: Barrie Vince
Director of Photography: Kim Longinotto
Sound: Christine Felce

Genre

Woman Director Asian

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Vixen Films 26 Balfour Road London N5 2HE, England Tel: +44 (0)20 7359 7368 tg@tgraham.demon.co.uk

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