
Daughters of the Brothel
Naseema grew up in a red-light district after being abandoned by both her parents, raised instead by a woman she calls her mother, a sex worker who took her in as a child. Part of Al Jazeera's Witness series, the film follows Naseema's life inside a community built around the brothel economy, showing the daily routines, relationships, and pressures that shape girls born or raised in that world. Interviews with Naseema and the women around her lay out the choices she faces as she gets older, including the risk of following the same path as the woman who raised her. The camera stays close to the household rather than the wider trade, focusing on domestic scenes, conversations, and the bonds between the women who share the house. Without narration doing the arguing for them, the subjects describe their own circumstances, leaving the viewer to weigh what love, obligation, and survival look like in a setting most documentaries only glance at from outside.