Elaha
Directed by Milena Aboyan
Produced by Kinescope Film, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
A tense, intimate examination of a young Kurdish woman's struggle against patriarchal expectations around virginity, sexuality, and autonomy within marriage.
Elaha, 22, believes she must restore her supposed innocence before she weds. A surgeon could reconstruct her hymen but she cannot afford such an operation. She asks herself: why does she have to be a virgin anyway, and for whom?
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