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Sentenced To Marriage

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English Title: Sentenced to Marraige
Hebrew Title: Mekudeshet
Documentary, 65 min, 2004, digibeta . color (also available 60/52 min)
Directed by: Anat Zuria
Produced by: Amit Breuer, Amythos Films
Co-Producers: Point Du Jour
Language: Hebrew with English subtitles
Also available French subtitles in 52 min version.
With the support of Makor Foundation, Nik Media, Programma Medea, Sundance Institute Documentary Fund and the Fund for Jewish Documentary Filmmaking National Foundation for Jewish Culture

Synopsis

Three young married women trapped in religious courts.
They can't get a divorce because the court needs their husband's consent in order to grant one. Dependant on their husbands' whim, they know not when release will finally come.
They are denied other relationships and are condemned to be barren, because a married woman is forbidden to another man.
In Israel, a democratic country of the 21 st century, their pain and suffering is embedded in the law. Being young and anonymous, their voices are silenced.
For two years the film follows the Kafkaesque struggle of Tamara, Michelle and Rachel - three young women doing all that is humanly possible to obtain a divorce, with the help of a group of female orthodox rabbinical advocates.
The film premiered at the Jerusalem Film Festival July 2004 where it won the Wolgin Award for the best documentray. It was shown in numerous festivals around the world and also won later best Israeli film at Hot Docs film festival Toronto 2005.