Knots: A Forced Marriage Story

This is the story of the women, the horrors they experienced, the courage they found, the triumphs they achieved, and the help they are now giving to help others.

Knots: A Forced Marriage Story provides a comprehensive cross-section of religious victimization.

Knots: A Forced Marriage Story is an eye-opening documentary that spotlights something that many of us think of as happening in other countries, not the US...

These three women make for sobering, understanding educators about a prevalent practice that needs the full glare of public attention. It's Reiss who calls the forced marriages for what they are: gender violence.

The well-crafted documentary is a highly effective call for essential change.

This isn't The Handmaid's Tale; it's daily life in the United States right now for thousands...and as Kate Brewer's Knots: A Forced Marriage Story makes abundantly clear, it needs to stop now.

It is clearly a labor of love for Brewer, and she certainly expresses an urgency for change that seems to elude our politicians + there's value in hearing the highly personal stories.

Puts Ultra-Orthodox women within the pressured context of all girls/women in the U.S. facing no choices, with no social or legal recourse within their communities/families.

Knots lays out the legal and structural landscape that allows underage forced marriages.

The film's plot is strong, powerfully weaving together these three unique stories of suffering, struggle, and hard-fought liberation.