The Doll (Arousak)

After consulting with his relatives, a 35-year-old father consents to the marriage of his 14-year-old daughter. As individuals with differing perspectives, their family members grapple with the decision.

Directed by Elahe Esmaili

Director’s Bio: Elahe concerns about children’s and women’s rights; Issues like child marriage, child abuse, neglect, or violence by parents, rape, women-against-women, and social inequalities. Elahe’s first film is her graduation film, the short documentary THE DOLL(2021). THE DOLL is awarded as Best International Short at Hot Docs 2021 and nominated/selected for prestigious awards like International Documentary Association(IDA), Critics Choice Awards, Student Academy Awards, One World Media Award as well as prestigious festivals include more that 10 Oscar qualifying festivals such as Full Frame Documentary FF, Atlanta FF, Athens IFVF, Kerala IDSFFK well as tens of other International festivals like Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival.

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