(Mekudeshet), Anat Zuria / Izrael, 2004
Hebrew version / Czech subtitles, 65 min
Today in Israel a woman can divorce her husband only in the case that her husband gives his agreement. It does not matter if he beats her, is unfaithful or even mistreats the children. Director Anat Zuria, who received the Best Director award for the film "Purity: Breaking Taboos of Silence" at the 5th annual One World film festival, for two years carefully recorded the desperate attempts of three young women to receive a divorce. Tamara, Michell and Ráchel care for four children, and with the help of their female lawyers at the rabbinic court fight the absurdly rigid law founded on the Jewish interpretation of the bond of marriage. Because in Israel a married woman is taboo for other men, the main characters of the film cannot begin a new life until after completing the divorce proceedings. They can count on the fact that their husband will refuse to provide financial support for the children or in some cases will agree to the divorce only in exchange for a large "indemnity". The course of the divorce itself in the rabbinic court, where the husband and their lawyers stand on one side and the frustrated women who are not allowed to the decide their own fate stand on the other, is carried out in a strong Kafkaesque fashion and raises the question how something like this is still possible in the 21st Century.
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