BBC Documentary Exposes Harsh Realities of Women’s Prisons in Morocco

Directed by the German-Moroccan Mohamed Nabil, the film will be screened on the British television channel BBC, starting this month. Assisted by a team of German professionals, the director sought to let the image speak instead of the silence, which does not allow to describe the many alterations that the detention system for women is experiencing.

Mohamed Nabil was able to obtain authorization to film, after two years of waiting. He thus defied the walls of silence to convey the story of Moroccan prisons for women, and to expose the taboos silenced within these walls.

The film traces the real stories of the inmates, through individual interviews where the prisoners are the true heroines, and recount their ordeals both inside and outside the prisons.

The Silence of the Cells had already been shown in several Moroccan theaters last year.