In Divorce Iranian Style, directors Kim Longinotto and Ziba Mir-Hosseini provide an insight into the world of Iranian women, as seen from inside a family court

Pleading one moment, coaxing and cajoling the next, the women in British filmmaker Kim Longinotto and Iranian co-director Ziba Mir-Hosseini's Divorce Iranian Style belong to a world that is untainted by stereotype.

"We wanted to present an ordinary view of Iran," says Longinotto over the phone from London, about the 1998 documentary that examines the human consequences of Iran's divorce laws.


According to Iranian law, a woman who re-marries automatically loses
custody of her children to the father, like Maryam (pictured here with
her daughter), one of three women featured in the documentary