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Deadly Honour

DVD Release Date:
10 January 2009

Deadly Honour

(Doc., Long version: 85 min.; Short version: 58 min., DVD/DV cam, color, 2009 - New Release)
  • Written, directed and produced by: Lipika Pelham
  • Language: Arabic, Hebrew and English, with English Subtitles.

Synopsis

Narrated by a 15-year old girl, Salma, based on a real life survivor of honour killing, 'Deadly Honour' documents multiple murders and attempted murders of young women in the Israeli city of Ramle. Juarish is a closed neighborhood in Ramle where young girls grow up in fear anticipating their turn to face the killers. This fear is sealed with a code of silence – no one talks about the murders, no one goes to court. But the status quo changed one day when the body of a murdered woman was found in a disused well in the forest.

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Festivals

  • Jewish Motifs Film Festival, Warsaw, Poland, 2010
  • Isratim Film Festival, Paris, 2010
  • India Int'l Women Film Festival, Special Showcase for Ruth Diskin Films, December 2009
  • San Diego Jewish Film Festival, USA, 2010

Educational

  • University of Pennsylvania
  • Dickinson College
  • Georgetown University
 
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