Cinematography Jocelyne Abi Gebrayel | ||
Edited by Michele Tyan, Raëd Younan (sound) Release date December 9, 2013 (2013-12-09) | ||
Scheherazade's Diary is a 2013 film directed by Zeina Daccache.
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Synopsis
The women inmates of Lebanon's Baabda Prison mine the depths of personal experience and confront patriarchy as they prepare and present the first theatre performance staged inside an Arab women’s prison. It was filmed during and after the ten-month 2012 drama therapy/theatre project in the prison. It features the women inmates.
In the course of their artistic journey, these “murderers of husbands, adulterers and drug felons” reveal stories of domestic violence, traumatic childhood, failed marriage, forlorn romance and deprivation of motherhood. The film journeys into daily prison life, follows the women storytellers as they rehearse for the show and intermingles scenes from the live performance with testimonials and backstage antics.