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Difret

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★ From Executive Producer Angelina Jolie-Pitt ★

“Really taken with Difret, first film ever at Sundance from Ethiopia, excellent by any standard.”
-- Kenneth Turan / LA Times

“This is a story of compassion and conviction that ought to inspire everybody.”
-- Secretary of State John Kerry / U.S. State Department

“A film ... which deftly examines the issues faced today by women and girls in rural Ethiopia.”
-- Lauren Said-Moorehouse / CNN

Director: Zeresenay Berhane Mehari
Runtime: 
99 min.
UPC: 888295371667

Prebook: 1/5/16
Street: 2
/2/16
​SRP: 
$24.95
GENRE: Narrative, Drama, Cultural Studies, Human Rights, Politics, Gender Studies

SYNOPSIS:

From executive producer Angelina Jolie Pitt comes the award-winning drama DIFRET, based on the inspirational true story of a young Ethiopian girl and a tenacious lawyer embroiled in a life-or-death clash between cultural traditions and their country's advancement of equal rights. When 14-year-oldHirut is abducted in her rural village’s tradition of kidnapping women for marriage, she fights back, accidentally killing her captor and intended husband. Local law demands a death sentence for Hirut, but Meaza, a tough and passionate lawyer from a women’s legal aide practice, steps in to fight forher. With both Hirut’s life and the future of the practice at stake, the two women must make their case for self-defense against one of Ethiopia’s oldest and most deeply-rooted traditions. DIFRET paints a portrait of a country in a time of great transformation and the brave individuals ready to help shape it.
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