Synopsis
In the West, the image of Palestinian women has a rather Orientalist slant. However, they didn't wait for the Intifada in 1987 before revolting. Veiled Hope breaks with the miserabilistic image of Palestinian women that prevails in the West to follow these extraordinary women in their daily lives. It also evokes the usual depiction of women in Palestinian pictorial art: they are always masked. Details are erased, sensuality is absent, bodies are stylized to the extreme.
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producer : Solera Films
- Co-production : France 3
Full credits (14)
- Executive Producer : Norma Marcos
- Screenwriter : Norma Marcos
- Director of Photography : Peter Chappell
- Music Composers : Abed Azrié, Rima Tarasi
- Editors : Dominique Pâris, Juliette Garcias, Claudia Veloso
- Sound Recordist : Philippe Fabbri
- Line Producer : George Khleifi
- Voice-over : Catherine Courel
- Assistant Operators : Suhaer Mousa, Abd el Salam Shehadeh
- Camera Operator : Peter Chappell
- Production manager : Françoise Gazio
- Sound editors : Bernard Ollivier, Philippe Fabbri
- Grader : Angela Pascoux
- Sound mixers : Bernard Ollivier, Philippe Fabbri
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Themes : Conflict, Painting, Politics
- Production language : Arabic
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 1994
- Runtime : 55 min 2 seconds
- Production formats : Super 16
- Color type : Color and Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 16/9
- Audio format : Dolby 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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🏆 This short film won the César Award 2024 for Best Short Film (Fiction)