Invisible Mothers

Produced in 2016

Film Information

Festival Edition 2016 - Edition 16

Section Rejection Front

Director Lorenzo Benitez

Country Morocco

Duration 87 min

Language Arabic/French/Spanish (English Subtitles)

Category Rejection Front 2016

Producer Juan Valentín Romero Giménez

Screenplay José Lorenzo Benitez

Cast Hafida Mazrak, Najia Es-Shimy, Claire Trichot

Genre Drama

Synopsis

Hafida is a single mother in Tangier. She runs away from home when got pregnant. Some years later she becomes a sexual health educator and goes back to her city, El Jadida, with her son. The family men reject them. Sex outside marriage is a crime in Morocco. The law stigmatizes single mothers as whores and their children as bastards.