Forbidden Lies (2007)

Directed by

Anna Broinowski

Genre

documentary film

Country

Australia

Runtime

1h 44m

Rating

7.6 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows the unraveling of a bestselling memoir about honor killings in Jordan, as the filmmaker uncovers evidence that the author may have fabricated her story.

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What happens

Forbidden Lie$ is an Australian documentary released in September 2007. It was directed by Anna Broinowski. It documents an investigation into the 2003 novel Forbidden Love (United States title: Honor Lost: Love and Death in Modern Day Jordan) written by Norma Khouri. The novel was published in 16 countries and sold between 250,000 and 550,000 copies around the world. Broinowski stated that her interest in the story came when details about Khouri's past in the United States were revealed. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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