The Damned Don’t Cry (Les damnés ne pleurent pas)

Fatima-Zahra and her teenage son, Selim, move from place to place, forever trying to outrun the latest scandal Fatima-Zahra’s caught up in. When Selim discovers the truth about their past, Fatima-Zahra vows to make a fresh start. In Tangier, new opportunities promise the legitimacy they each crave, but not without pushing the volatile mother-son relationship to the breaking point. The Damned Don’t Cry combines melodrama and neorealism to tell the story of a mother-son relationship on the fringes, observing the effects of oppression, both economic and affective, in a cut-throat world. Fyzal Boulifa, a British director of Moroccan descent, has created a unique film about sexuality and queerness in an Islamic majority country.