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Dying to Divorce

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Filmed over 5 years, DYING TO DIVORCE takes viewers into the heart of Turkey's gender-based violence crisis and the political events that have severely eroded democratic freedoms. Through intimately shot personal stories, the film gives a unique perspective on the struggle to be an independent woman in modern Turkey. More than one in three Turkish women have experienced domestic abuse and the number of femicides is rising. But some Turkish women are fighting back. Ipek Bozkurt, a courageous lawyer, is determined to challenge this misogynistic trend by putting abusive men behind bars. Working with a group of activists, Ipek fights to get justice for two survivors of horrific assaults: Arzu, married at 14 and Kubra, a successful TV presenter. Ipek struggles not only against a biased legal system but an increasingly repressive government. After an attempted coup, there is an unprecedented crackdown on dissenting voices, leaving Ipek, like thousands of other lawyers, fearing imprisonment.

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Craig Mathieson The Age (Australia) 05/26/2022
It is a bleak situation, without a quick solution, but the courage of the women fighting these battles is quietly inspiring as they make the life and death stakes unfailingly clear. Go to Full Review Fionnuala Halligan Screen International 12/17/2021
It's a horrifyingly effective presentation of stories which need to be told, over and over and over again, until attitudes change, in Turkey and elsewhere. Go to Full Review Guy Lodge Variety 11/28/2021
Chloë Fairweather's film - the U.K.'s international Oscar entry - occasionally strains to merge personal narrative and systemic analysis in its slender runtime, but it's powerful all the same. Go to Full Review Edward Porter Sunday Times (UK) 12/08/2021
4/5
It might not surprise you to learn that Turkey's legal system is blighted by sexist bias, but the cases outlined in Chloe Fairweather's documentary are especially shocking. Go to Full Review Read all reviews
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Chloë Fairweather

Director

Sinead Kirwan

Self

Elisabeth Kleppe

Self

Özge Sebzeci

Self

Ipek Bozkurt

Self

Sinead Kirwan

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Synopsis Filmed over 5 years, DYING TO DIVORCE takes viewers into the heart of Turkey's gender-based violence crisis and the political events that have severely eroded democratic freedoms. Through intimately shot personal stories, the film gives a unique perspective on the struggle to be an independent woman in modern Turkey. More than one in three Turkish women have experienced domestic abuse and the number of femicides is rising. But some Turkish women are fighting back. Ipek Bozkurt, a courageous lawyer, is determined to challenge this misogynistic trend by putting abusive men behind bars. Working with a group of activists, Ipek fights to get justice for two survivors of horrific assaults: Arzu, married at 14 and Kubra, a successful TV presenter. Ipek struggles not only against a biased legal system but an increasingly repressive government. After an attempted coup, there is an unprecedented crackdown on dissenting voices, leaving Ipek, like thousands of other lawyers, fearing imprisonment.
Director
Chloë Fairweather
Producer
Sinead Kirwan, Chloë Fairweather, Seda Gökçe, Özge Sebzeci
Production Co
Aldeles AS, Dying to Divorce ltd
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
British English
Runtime
1h 22m