Missing Fetine (2018)

FETINE is a Muslim woman from Cyprus who was forced to marry a Palestinian at age of 14, in 1936 and leave her home to Palestine, never to be seen again. FETINE shared the same fate a large number of young women in Cyprus had during the British Colonial Period at a time where many families were living in extreme poverty (between the 1920's-1950'). Many of these young women were never seen again by their families and never returned to Cyprus. After several decades this issue has only recently been brought to light raising many questions namely why so many were never sought after and if indeed the marriage was a sale? Pembe Mentesh, an Australian-born Cypriot, upon moving to Cyprus, decides to break the decades long silence regarding FETINE's marriage and begins an investigation to locate her. Pembe's work in human rights and activism ignites her need to search for her great aunt and she travels throughout Cyprus and the Middle East to find out why this chapter of Cypriot history remained in the dark for so long and what actually happened to Missing FETINE.