Origin: France | Documentary | Director: Norma Marcos | 55 minutes

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The Veiled Hope by Norma Marcos
France, 1994, 55 minutes, Color, DVD, Subtitled
Order No. W99413

THE VEILED HOPE explores the personal and political challenges facing
Palestinian women through a series of wonderful portraits of women living
on the Gaza and West Bank. The women explain how in their daily lives as
doctors, schoolteachers and activists they are working to rebuild
Palestinian cultural identity. They also provide a rare insight into the
complex feelings women have surrounding the emergence of political Islamic
movements. THE VEILED HOPE gives an in-depth analysis of the position of
Palestinian women as they juggle women's and national liberation struggles.

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