INVISIBLE MOTHERS

S Y P N O S I S

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

Production: 3boxmedia 

With the support of SRF (Switzerland)

Country: Spain / Germany
Format: HD
Duration: 67 minutos
Languages: Arabic (dariya) / Spanish / French
Year of production: 2016

Direction and production: Lorenzo Benítez
Research and script: Lorenzo Benítez y Helena Madico
Cinematographer: Pedro Sara
Sound: Mariluz Domínguez, María Zafra y Yolaperdono
Edition: Mariluz Domínguez

  • PREMIERE – Documenta Madrid Film Festival, 28th April 2016. 
  • Tarifa African Film Festival, 2016. 
  • Premiere in Morocco. Cinema Rif, Tangier, 2016.
  • Cadiz Documentary Film Festival, inauguration, 2016.
  • Beirut International Film Festival, 2016.
  • Euro Arab Film Festival, Santiago de Compostela, 2016.
  • Seville European Film Festival, 2016.
  • Cartagena International Film Festival, 2016.
  • Nominated for Best Novel Director and Best Documentary Awards ASECAN Andalusian Cinema 2017.
  • International Documentary Film Festival Miradasdoc, Tenerife 2017.
  • Asturias Social and Human Rights Film Festival 2017.
  • Valencia International Human Rights Film Festival 2017.
  • Buenos Aires International Human Rights Film Festival 2017. 
  • Premiere in Barcelona, Zumzeig Cinema 2017.
  • International Festival of Ethnography – Ethnovideographic 2017, Castilla y León.
  • International Liége Festival Imagésanté (Belgium) 2018. Official competition.
  • Arts and Film Festival, University of Bath (UK), 2018.
  • Geneva International Oriental Film Festival (Switzerland), 2018.

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