Loin des yeux

"La Tuilière Prison, in French-speaking Switzerland. Some thirty inmates are serving their sentences here for theft, fraud, prostitution, drug traf cking or murder. Who are these women who one day end up in prison? And how can they continue to be mothers behind bars? A sensitive and intimate observation, through four interlinking portraits, of the reality of a Swiss women’s prison. "In prison, motherhood remains a solid benchmark for women who have chil- dren. It allows them to hold onto their identity, regardless of the offence or crime committed. In this prison system that plans and regulates not only every- thing they do but also the relationships they have with others, I wanted to film how these mothers maintain their day- to-day relationship with their children despite physical separation, administrative barriers and the social stigmatisation that imprisonment imposes. Between shame and guilt, there is often not much else left of these women; however, nobody can take away from them the consciousness of being a mother". "
(BR)