As campaign to repeal Morocco's Article 490 - which makes it illegal for anyone to have sex outside of marriage - continues, the subject continues to crop up in films from the region, particularly with reference to pregnant women, who often come late to medical treatment or avoid it at all because if they present to a hospital to have their baby out of wedlock, they face arrest. Recent fictional treatments have included Meryem Benm'Barek-Aloïsi's Sofia and Maryam Touzani's Adam and now Myriam Bakir considers the issue from a documentary standpoint.
She takes her camera inside the buildings of the Oum El Banine association in Agadir, which offers refuge and support to pregnant girls, while trying to broker reconciliation with their families. The organisation is run by Mahjouba Edbouche who we see going about her day-to-day business, along with their team as they offer a mix of forthright...
She takes her camera inside the buildings of the Oum El Banine association in Agadir, which offers refuge and support to pregnant girls, while trying to broker reconciliation with their families. The organisation is run by Mahjouba Edbouche who we see going about her day-to-day business, along with their team as they offer a mix of forthright...
- 4/6/2021
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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