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Runaway / Women Make Movies ; a film by Kim Longinotto & Ziba Mir-Hosseini ; a Vixen film ; Channel Four-Television Corporation.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Persian
- Subjects (All):
- Runaway teenagers--Iran.
- Runaway teenagers.
- Girls--Iran--Social conditions.
- Girls.
- Family violence--Iran.
- Family violence.
- Iran.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (1 hr., 25 min.) : digital, sound, color
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, New York] : [Distributed by] Women Make Movies, [2021]
- Language Note:
- In Farsi with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- Tells the story of a group of young runaway girls who are taken to a women's shelter in Tehran-Iran. The film focuses on the sufferings of young girls who struggle to free themselves from the tyrannical and abusive power of their families, mainly their fathers, brothers, and stepfathers.
- Credits:
- Camera, Kim Longinotto ; editor, Ollie Huddleston.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: Vixen Film, Channel Four-Television Corporation, ©2001; previously released in 2002.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed April 19, 2021).
- Publisher Number:
- wm-runawa Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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