There’s a short documentary making waves in Turkey now. It was made by a woman who works in a wedding dress factory. In the film, women in a dress factory sew and talk about what’s really on their minds — violence against women. Like the filmmaker says, the women in the shop are selling a dream that even they don’t believe in. Durrie Bouscaren reports.
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