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Maria's Grotto

Type:
Documentary

Director:
Buthina Canaan Khoury

Year:
2007

Time:
52 minutes

Language:
Arabic with English subtitles

 

WINNER— Silver Award, Dubai Film Festival

 
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Available for online sale
Available for online sale
   

In some parts of Palestine, if a woman has a sexual relationship outside the bonds of marriage or is suspected of an extra-marital affair, she is considered to have brought dishonor upon her family, which is punishable by death. Commonly called "honor killings," a relative usually carries out the sentence on behalf of the family, and the murder is committed without any legal consequences.

In her documentary, Palestinian filmmaker and activist Buthina Canaan Khoury weaves the moving stories of four women who've faced such a predication with that of a young woman who strives to expose the injustice of these crimes to wider society.

This film is available with a Digital Site License (DSL), which allows colleges, universities, or libraries to encode, locally host, and stream the film to their community on a closed, password-protected system.

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