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Laila enters a police station in Beirut to submit a claim about marital rape but is faced with unexpected queries

Farah Shaer is a Lebanese director, actress, and activist. Her work in theater and film deals mainly with major issues facing women in the Arab society. Her film Wahabtoka Al Muta'h about a devout Lebanese Shiite Muslim widow, who uses her legal religious right of performing 'pleasure marriage' to gather blessings for her late husband, was one of 2 films banned from the Beirut International Film Festval 2015. (The other one, WASP, can be seen here on realeyz.de)