L'espoir voilé

France | 1994 | 55 min | Documentary 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 the 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. A film by Norma Marcos