Women Have Issues

V Film Festival 2010 offered a variety of films by women directors dealing with issues ranging from pluralism, diversity, and youth identity to Shari’a Islam.

May 5, 2010

EVERY day I pray that I will give birth to a baby. Then, my husband will not look for a new wife.” These words flowed softly from the lips of a young woman named Ziba, the fourth wife of a rich farmer from a village in Iran. In tears, she tells how she has wanted to commit suicide many times because of feeling so desperate.

This film dealing with the issue of polygamy was one of the films shown in the V Film Festival, an international women

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