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The making of a theatre production depicting inmates suffering from mental health issues, isolated within “The Blue Building” in Lebanon’s Roumieh Prison, portrayed by their fellow inmates in general population.
Actor, drama therapist and director Zeina Daccache is on a mission to reform penal law in Lebanon. The Blue Inmates follows the making of a theatre production depicting inmates suffering from mental health issues, isolated within “The Blue Building” in Lebanon’s Roumieh Prison, portrayed by their fellow inmates in general population.
In this remarkable documentary, inmates enrolled in Daccache’s drama therapy programme convey messages from “The Blue Building” to the outside world and to decision-makers with the hope of changing the status of these forgotten prisoners. Through Daccache, we hear untold stories through the performance, as she seeks to show humanity within an inhumane system and to bring change – namely the possibility of rehabilitation – through art.
