Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem [+leggi anche:
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Gett is now being screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and later on will also visit three leading festivals in the US: The Hamptons International Film Festival, the Mill Valley Film Festival in San Francisco and the Chicago International Film Festival. The film is distributed in the US by Music Box Pictures, and screening in the States will begin in January 2015. 

In Europe, Gett will be screened at the London Film Festival, the San Sebastian Film Festival and the Oslo Film Festival, which will have a special tribute to the Elkabetz duo and will show their two previous films, To Take a Wife and Seven Days.

The film tells the story of an Israeli woman (Ronit Elkabetz) seeking to finalise her divorce from her cruel and manipulative husband. She finds herself effectively put on trial by her country's religiously based marriage laws. In Israel, there is neither civil marriage nor civil divorce; only rabbis can legalise a marriage or its dissolution, which is only possible with the husband's full consent. Viviane Amsalem has been applying for a divorce for three years, but her husband Elisha (Simon Abkarian, of Casino Royale [+leggi anche:
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