The Blue Inmates (12A) + Live virtual ScreenTalk
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Director Zeina Daccache is on a mission to reform penal law in Lebanon.
Having introduced and pioneered drama therapy in the Lebanese prison system, Zeina’s theatre production 12 Angry Lebanese in 2009, and the documentary that emerged from that process, led to a progression in legislation to reduce the prison year and allow prisoners to get release for good conduct.
Her third film in the series, The Blue Inmates, follows the making of a theatre production involving convicts with mental health conditions and demonstrates the legal hurdles inherent in Lebanese law, in which a 1943 law stipulates that ‘Insane’, ‘Mad’ or ‘Possessed’ offenders shall be incarcerated until they can prove they are ‘cured’, meaning offenders are in reality serving a life sentence regardless of their crime.
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