Quand les hommes pleurent (English: When Men Cry) is a 1999 documentary film directed by Yasmine Kassari.
[1][2][3][4] The director spent a summer in the region of Murcia alongside the clandestine workers featured in her documentary.
Poems of the Palestinian Mahmoud Darwich are scattered throughout the film.
[6][7][8] The film follows "men who cry", Moroccan workers who have crossed the Strait of Gibraltar in order to reach Spain, in search of a better future.
These migrants soon discover the impasse in which they find themselves, stuck there in living conditions worse than those they knew at home.