The Women in Block J

Three patients and a nurse from a women’s psychiatric ward in Casablanca, confront their suffering and forge a strong friendship, escaping in occasional nocturnal escapades that slowly help to bring them back to life. As the Cairo Film Festival is honouring women, Mohamed Nazif’s The Women in Block J is an ideal film to honour Moroccan women from different social backgrounds. The characters bond together via the pain of mental illness through which they face and counter trauma and which gives them well to support each other. In their night trips outside the sanatorium, the drama behind each character evolves. (Cairo International Film Festival)