Hidden Faces(الوجوه الخفية)
United Kingdom · 1990
52m
Director Kim Longinotto
Starring Nawal al Saadawi, Safaa Fathy
Genre Documentary
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The film was originally conceived as a portrait of Dr. Nawal El Saadawi, the well-known Egyptian doctor, writer, and women’s rights activist. But the director was disappointed by the encounter with the woman who had been her great role model. Instead, she set out to discover what life means to Egyptian women by visiting her female relatives. Her mother, aunts, and neighbors talk about life as a married woman, about the traditional clitoridectomy of girls, about love and sexuality. The result is a very impressive and extremely personal film.
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