LITTLE BRIDE

PRZYRZECZONA

There is about 2.5 million Turkish minority members in Germany. Every year there is at least a dozen of Turkish women beaten to death by their husbands or other family members. The actual scale of those crimes in Germany, where law and order are so highly valued, is unknown – according to the official data, in Turkey there are committed more than 300 so-called honor killings annually and 40% of wives are violence victims.    
 
A Turkish girl was sent to Germany and forced to marry when she was 13 years old. Soon after, her hell has begun; she was beaten and abused in different ways. After several years she managed to run away; she has been hiding until now – only because of that she is able to tell us her life story.

FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION

  • Genre: Dokumentalny
  • Country: Polska
  • Running time: 18
  • Year: 2009

Director: Lesław Dobrucki

DOP: Piotr Rosołowski

Editing: Bartosz Pietras, Jakub Kossak, Robert Polewski

Production company: Mistrzowska Szkoła Reżyserii Filmowej Andrzeja Wajdy (obecnie: Wajda Studio)

About the director:

Lesław Dobrucki

Lesław Dobrucki

Born in 1969 in Warsaw. A graduate of the Faculty of Graphic Arts of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (diploma in the Animation Studio of Professor Daniel Szczechura in 1988) and of a documentary film course at the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing. An author of animated (Morderczy Kiełek kontra Gigakotek – 1998), semi‑documentary (Zęboludy – 2006) and documentary films (Ekipa – 2007, a co‑author; Kilka mniejszych wygranych – 2008).
 

At festivals:

45th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Czech Republic, 2010 (competition)

Era New Horizons International Film Festival 2010, Poland, 2010 (competition)

DOKUFEST, The International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Kosovo, 2010 (competition)

Vilnius Film Shorts, Lithuania, 2010 (Second Prize)

East Silver Market 2010, Czech Republic, 2010 (competition)

VERZIO Documentary Film Festival, Hungary, 2010 (screening)

Sheffield Doc/Fest, England, 2010 (screening)

Expresión En Corto International Film Festival - Speak Out Against Domestic Violence, 2010 (Honorary Mention)

DOCUMENTARIST - Istanbul Documentary Days,"Which Human Rights?", Turkey, 2010 (screening)

13th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Greece, 2011 (screening)

Women's Film Festival - Brattleboro Vermont, USA, 2011 (screening)

One World Romania Documentary Film Festival, 2011 (screening)

KINOTEKA - 9th Polish Film Festival, London, UK, 2011 (screening)

FilmPOLSKA, Germany, 2011 (screening)

39th Huesca International Film Festival, Spain, 2011 (competition)

Open City London Documentary Festival, UK, 2011 (competition)

Art Film Fest, Slovakia, 2011 (competition)

“Golden Apricot” 8th Yerevan Film Festival, Armenia, 2011 (screening)

Concorto Film Festival, Italy, 2011 (competition)

Saratov Sufferings Film Festival, Russia, 2011 (competition)

Batumi International Art House Film Festival, Georgia, 2011 (screening)

Ljubljana Independent Documentary Film Festival Dokubazaar, Slovenia, 2011 (screening)

International Human Rights Film Festival in Albania, 2011 (screening)

6th Kenya International Film Festival in Nirobi, Kenya, 2011 (screening)

Cortopotere International Short Film Festival, Italy, 2011 (competition)

6th Human Rights Film Festival PRAVO LJUDSKI, Bosnia and Hercegovina, 2011 (screening)

Children's Rights Festival, Croatia, 2011 (competition)

SkenaUp Festival, Kosovo, 2011 (competition)

MujerDOC: Third International Documentary Festival on Gender Equality, 2012 (competition)

10th Tabor Film Festival, Croatia, 2012 (screening)

10th International Festival Signes de Nuit, France, 2012 (screening)