Origin: France | Documentary | Director: Norma Marcos | 74 minutes

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A long hot summer in Palestine , by Norma Marcos (director and producer), documentary 74 min. France 2017. English and French subtitles.

Synopsis director Norma Marcos:

‘My film A long hot summer in Palestine is about the war of summer 2014 in Gaza, seen from the West Bank. I was shooting a film on women with my niece Yara who was in my previous film and the "normal" daily life in the West Bank before the war on Gaza in
June 2014. "I'm 16 and I've already been through three wars" said Farah Baker, a Palestinian girl in a tweet read by 70,000 people after the bombing of her house in Gaza. Shocked by this tweet, I knew that my film will take another direction. I then took my camera and encountered Palestinians in the West Bank. Through an artist, banker, a florist, a woman race driver, a woman mayor... we discover how they are affected by this conflict in their daily life, their solidarity towards Gaza and how  they rebuild their society despite the Israeli oppression and violence.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/normamarcos/alonghotsummerinpalestine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG75RvRGdrI

Norma Marcos, Palestinian with a French passport, is also a writer and screenwriter. Among other works, she has directed five movies, which were selected at a number of prestigious festivals around the world: Rotterdam (Netherlands), Rome, Montréal, San Francisco, Tetouan (Morocco, ) Beirut (Lebanon), Chicago, Boston, Baghdad and which were screened in more than 40 cinema theaters in France.

In 2004, she won the Grand Prix (Grand Prize, SOPADIN) for Best Screenplay among 357 scripts: "Nouzha" , which is an adaptation of a Palestinian novel by Sahar Khalifa, translated and edited by the prestigious publisher Flammarion.
In 2022 she completed a feature script: "Sami, Like Dew Drops on thorns".

Norma Marcos is the winner of several international awards, including: Winner of the SOPADIN competition for her feature film script Nouzha. Winner of Villa Medicis competition for the documentary Retrouver Jerusalem. Winner of "Voice of America " Radio training program. Winner of Knight Fellowships program at Stanford University. Winner of the Umverteilen Foundation author funding.

In 2013 her book "The Veil of Despair: Women, sexuality and feminism in Palestine" was published by Riveneuve editing house.

Her movies:
"The Veiled Hope" (1993)
"Nouzha" (2004)
"Waiting for Ben Gourion" (2006)
"Fragments of a Lost Palestine" (2010)
"Wahdon" (Alone - 2012)

Website:
https://normamarcos.com

Contact: Norma MARCOS. Phone: + 33 1 40 31 88 87. Mobile: + 33 6 66 41 11 40.

norma.marcos@orange.fr

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