Scheherazade's Diary
7.9
In 2012, after a 10 months drama therapy workshop, the women inmates of a Beirut prison presented their play Scheherazade in Baabda inside prison to the audience. This film follows the women during these 10 months. The women tell their stories showing how difficult it is to be a woman in Lebanon, and in general in the Arab world, which is governed by a patriarchal mentality. They convey the voices of all women who are imprisoned by oppressive mentalities which in many cases lead women to crime.
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Zeina Daccache Director · Michèle Tyan Editor
Worldwide gross $42K · United States release April 11, 2015 · Produced in Lebanon
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Worldwide gross
$41,797
Production
Catharsis
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Lebanon
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Original title
يوميّات شهرزاد
Original language
Arabic
Spoken on screen
Arabic
Release dates
United Arab Emirates · December 5, 2013
Dubai International film festival
Lebanon · December 11, 2013
Theatrical
United States · April 11, 2015
SF Human Rights Film Festival
France
October 27, 2014 · Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival
Switzerland
March 25, 2015 · Digital
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