Knots: A Forced Marriage Story

Released May 7, 2021

1 hr. 16 min.

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The film explores forced and child marriages, which are occurring legally across the United States every day. Director Kate Brewer reveals the disturbing truth about this problem in modern America through the complicated experience of three forced marriage survivors. Nina Van Harn, Sara Tasneem, and Fraidy Reiss share intimate details of their personal journeys of surviving, escaping and ultimately becoming powerful voices in the historic fight to end the human rights abuse of forced marriage.

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This is a compelling and important film. The child marriage problem is little known in the US but the impacts of child marriage on child brides are profound--their health, their education, and their development. "Knots" powerfully explores the reasons why children should not marry.

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Nell Minow

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This is the story of the women, the horrors they experienced, the courage they found, the triumphs they achieved, and the help they are now giving to help others.

Jan 11, 2022

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Nick Schager

The Daily Beast

Knots: A Forced Marriage Story provides a comprehensive cross-section of religious victimization.

May 8, 2021

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Cate Marquis

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Knots: A Forced Marriage Story is an eye-opening documentary that spotlights something that many of us think of as happening in other countries, not the US...

Jan 11, 2022

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Loren King

AWFJ.org

These three women make for sobering, understanding educators about a prevalent practice that needs the full glare of public attention. It's Reiss who calls the forced marriages for what they are: gender violence.

Jan 11, 2022

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Jennifer Merin

AWFJ.org

The well-crafted documentary is a highly effective call for essential change.

Jan 11, 2022

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Betsy Bozdech

AWFJ.org

This isn't The Handmaid's Tale; it's daily life in the United States right now for thousands...and as Kate Brewer's Knots: A Forced Marriage Story makes abundantly clear, it needs to stop now.

Jan 11, 2022

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Synopsis

The film explores forced and child marriages, which are occurring legally across the United States every day. Director Kate Brewer reveals the disturbing truth about this problem in modern America through the complicated experience of three forced marriage survivors. Nina Van Harn, Sara Tasneem, and Fraidy Reiss share intimate details of their personal journeys of surviving, escaping and ultimately becoming powerful voices in the historic fight to end the human rights abuse of forced marriage.

Director: Kate Ryan Brewer
Executive Producer: Tim Ryan
Screenwriter: Kate Ryan Brewer
Distributor: Global Digital Releasing
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 7, 2021, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 4, 2021

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