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.
Les Yeux secs raconte l'histoire d'un village berbère au Maroc uniquement habité par des femmes condamnées à offrir leurs charmes. Seuls des hommes dûment argentés peuvent y séjourner. Mais lorsque Mina, incarcérée durant vingt-cinq ans, revient, l'ordre des choses est perturbé : celle-ci ayant appris l'art du métier à tisser leur offre une nouvelle perspective… Ces femmes contraintes jusqu'ici de dissimuler douleur et honte, autrement dit d'avoir les « yeux secs », vont-elles s'émanciper, enfin, d'un destin tragique ?
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