A few years ago I had watched a wonderful movie called "Ujeli: A Child Bride". It is educational, heartwarming, and occasionally funny. If you are lucky, you may find it in your local/university library. You may also order it from the UNICEF (http://www.unicef.org/broadcast/vidcat.htm NOTE: the ordering link is broken. Damn! Find a way around it) Here is the cut-and-paste info: Ujeli: A Child Bride in Nepal Production Year: 1992 Length: 59 minutes Language: English subtitles Ten-year-old Ujeli lives in Nepal with her parents and brother. Against the advice of her teacher and a doctor, who warn about the dangers of early childbearing, Ujeliýs parents arrange for her to get married. Nepal has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world, and 40 per cent of the women are married before the age of 14. Marriage at a very young age excludes most women from the school system, and as in Ujeliýs case, children take on adult responsibilities. From another source: "Ujeli-The Child Bride" is a short docudrama. It is set in rural Nepal and highlights the problem of child marriage. Solutions are sought to improve the status of a girl child vis a vis her health welfare and rights. The film portrays the story of Ujeli before and after marriage. It captures moments like the disappointments of Ujeli when she comes to know that she can no longer go to school with her brother, her questions about marriage and why she is not given as much food as her brother. It also reflects the rituals around marriage and traditional routines a girl has to follow at her in laws house like waking up before sunrise to do the daily chores, washing the husband's feet and drinking that water on waking up etc. The village priest/matchmaker and the grandmother give voice to the tradition, the schoolmaster represents the modern rationale and the father of Ujeli stands between the extremes as a person willing to listen to the voice of reason but is swayed by traditions. The film is handled sensitively. Though shocking at times it is neither too stark nor too critical about values or tradition - all is left to the viewers to form their own verdicts.