Divorce Iranian Style
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Kimona Longinotto
Joanna Rosethall
Christine Felce
Lizzie Lemon
Kimona Longinotto
Kimona Longinotto
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A 16-year-old, married at the age of 14 to a man more than twice her age, explains that she desperately wants a divorce to go back to school. Another pleads for custody of her 4-year-old daughter, having already lost custody of her other child. One woman tells the judge her husband is crazy: in 30 years, he has refused to let her answer the phone. In Iran "craziness" is one of the few acceptable grounds for for divorce when proceedings are brought by a woman; for men, divorce is granted upon request... Inside an Iranian divorce court, a stream of veiled women (some only teenagers, others elderly) make use of reason, wit, charm and chicanery to get what they want above all else: a divorce.
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Winner of the Grand Prize for Best Documentary at the 1999 San Francisco International Film Festival.
Released in United States 1998
Released in United States 1999
Released in United States August 1998
Released in United States March 1999
Released in United States October 1998
Released in United States October 8, 1999
Released in United States Winter December 9, 1998
Shown at Cleveland International Film Festival March 18-28, 1999.
Shown at Edinburgh International Festival (Imagining Reality) August 16-30, 1998.
Shown at San Francisco International Film Festival April 22 - May 6, 1999.
Shown at Vancouver International Film Festival September 26 - November 12, 1998.
Released in United States 1998 (Shown at Vancouver International Film Festival September 26 - November 12, 1998.)
Released in United States 1999 (Shown at San Francisco International Film Festival April 22 - May 6, 1999.)
Released in United States March 1999 (Shown at Cleveland International Film Festival March 18-28, 1999.)
Released in United States October 8, 1999 (Laemmle's Grande 4 Plex; Los Angeles)
Released in United States Winter December 9, 1998
Shown at Viennale International Film Festival in Vienna October 16-28, 1998.
Released in United States August 1998 (Shown at Edinburgh International Festival (Imagining Reality) August 16-30, 1998.)
Released in United States October 1998 (Shown at Viennale International Film Festival in Vienna October 16-28, 1998.)
