‘Strawberries’ Review: The Indignities Faced by Migrant Workers Unfold Through the Eyes of a Brilliant Young Actress
The film 'Strawberries' explores the harsh realities faced by migrant workers through the eyes of a young Moroccan woman named Hasna. As she navigates her new life in Spain, she confronts the exploitation and injustices prevalent in the agricultural sector. The narrative highlights her struggles and the systemic issues that render these workers invisible and vulnerable.
- ▪Hasna, a young Moroccan immigrant, faces challenges in a strawberry greenhouse in Spain.
- ▪The film illustrates the exploitation of migrant workers and the complexities of their working conditions.
- ▪Hasna's journey reveals severe issues such as paycheck withholding and the threat of violence.
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| Publication time | Mon, 18 May 2026 22:54:46 +0000 |
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If you were dropped into a greenhouse full of strawberries and instructed to pick everything in your row by a supervisor speaking tersely a foreign language, what would you do about the unripe ones? Skip them and you might appear to be incapable of finishing a task, but pick them and you end up wasting fruit and creating more work for the people sorting them. With your survival on the line, you have to decide quickly. It’s one of the first challenges that Hasna (Nisrin Erradi) faces in “Strawberries” after migrating from Morocco to Spain with the hopes of a better life. And while it’s resolved fairly quickly after she guesses wrong, the scene becomes a skeleton key that explains much of Laila Marrakchi’s painful film about the lives of migrant workers.
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