Assal Ghawami

The Girl sitting Here tackles the culture of sexual violence against women in the Middle East as we follow Bahar getting pushed to into a temporary marriage.

Desperate for companionship, a lonely, young Palestinian-American man agrees to marry an Israeli woman in need of a Green Card, forcing them to re-examine their respective cultural and familial traditions.

A documentary film crew follows an Iranian woman, a doctor who is living under political house arrest. Inviting journalists into her home to share her research can hold a potential death sentence, a risk she is willing to take in order to save countless lives.