Cry No More
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Moroccan filmmaker Narjiss Nejjar makes her feature debut with the drama Cry No More. Former prostitute Mina (Raouia) is released from prison after a 25-year sentence. Bus driver Fahd (Khalid Benchegra) returns her to the isolated Berber village of prostitutes. Because the only men allowed in are customers, Fahd pretends to be Mina's son. Fahd falls for Mina's angry daughter, Hala (Siham Assif), who wants to stop the village curse. Hala has a daughter of her own, Zinba Rafiqua Belhaj, who's about to undergo a traditional loss-of-virginity ritual. As she forms a plan to stop the sex work-cycle, Mina doesn't let Hala know her real identity, although the village elders in the mountain cliffs remember her. Cry No More was shown during the Director's Fortnight at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.
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Narjiss Nejjar Director
Budget $600K · First release March 13, 2003 · Production Ministry of Foreign Affairs (France), Soread-2M
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Budget
$600,000
Production
Fonds Sud Cinéma
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs (France)
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Soread-2M
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Original title
Les yeux secs
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
Arabic
Release dates
Morocco · March 13, 2003
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No release date listed for United States.
Canada
September 10, 2003 · Toronto International Film Festival
France
May 20, 2003 · Cannes Film Festival
Sweden
January 30, 2004 · Gothenburg Film Festival
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