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Shira Mendelman, an 18-year-old Hasidic girl living in Tel Aviv, is looking forward to an arranged marriage with a young man whom she likes. However, on Purim, her family suffers a tragedy when Shira's older sister Esther dies in childbirth. Shira's father subsequently delays the engagement so as not to have to deal with an empty house so soon ...
Arranged is a 2007 American independent film produced by Cicala Filmworks, directed by Diane Crespo and Stefan Schaefer, and starring Zoe Lister-Jones and Francis Benhamou. It tells the story of the friendship between an Orthodox Jewish woman (Rochel) and a Muslim woman (Nasira), both of whom are teachers in New York City .
The film explores the expectations surrounding marriage in the Patels' first-generation Indian immigrant family and in wider American society. [2] It had its international premiere at Hot Docs in April 2014. [3] [4] Fox Searchlight acquired remake rights after the documentary won the Audience Award at the Los Angeles Film Festival. [5] [6]
Heaven on Earth a.k.a. Videsh is a 2008 Canadian film directed and written by Deepa Mehta. Preity Zinta plays the leading role of Chand, a young Indian Punjabi woman who finds herself in an abusive arranged marriage with an Indo-Canadian man, played by theatre actor Vansh Bhardwaj.
THE COUNTDOWN: From ‘Mr and Mrs Smith’ to ‘Cleopatra’, Helen Coffey rounds up the movies that saw their stars get caught-up in illicit romances on and off screen 11 films that ended actors ...
Tanna is a 2015 Australian-Ni-Vanuatu [4] drama film directed by Bentley Dean and Martin Butler.Set on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu, the film dramatizes the true story of Wawa and Dain (Mungau Dain), members of the Indigenous Kastom tribe, who defy their community’s tradition of arranged marriage by pursuing a forbidden romance, igniting tensions with the rival Imedin tribe.
But at the same time it didn't feel forced or fake like so many modern "feminist" movies/recasts and I think Ripley really is the perfect example of a strong female lead. Image credits ...
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