Kim Longinotto and Ziba Mir-Hosseini spent weeks filming in a Tehran family court. Women like Jamileh, whose husband beats her, and Ziba, a sixteen-year-old wife, argue for divorce and for their children with wit, courage and sheer persistence, in a system weighted against them.
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Kim Longinotto and Ziba Mir-Hosseini spent weeks filming in a Tehran family court. Women like Jamileh, whose husband beats her, and Ziba, a sixteen-year-old wife, argue for divorce and for their children with wit, courage and sheer persistence, in a system weighted against them.
In Persian with English subtitles (press CC), about 1 hour 16 minutes. Content note: domestic abuse. Shared from the YouTube channel of Real Stories, which distributes the film.
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