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    Hidden Faces

    Kim Longinotto 1990 England Documentary color 52min 16mm
    Nawal El Saadawi is the well-known Egyptian female writer, and at the same time she also is a pioneer whose position is under the Islam religious doctrine limit, vigorously promotes the feminist movement. This documentary originally planned to discuss the Egyptian woman's in Islam world status by her story. But the Egyptian woman, Safaa Fathay who lives abroad Paris has Participated in this document and after interviewing Nawal Ei Saadawi, she starts to depart from her idea. The film follows Fathay's journey to her family home and discovers similar complex frictions between modernity and tradition. Her mother's decision to return to the veil after twenty years and her cousin's clitoridectomies reveal a disturbing renewal of in a fundamentalism. This absorbing documentary broaches the contradictions of feminism in a Muslim environment, a startling, unforgettable picture of contemporary women in the Arab world.

    Director

    Kim Longinotto

    Kim Longinotto studied camera and directing at England's National Film School. In 1986, Longinotto formed the production company Twentieth Century Vixen with Claire Hunt. Together they made Fireraiser, a look at the bombing of Dresden; Eat the Kimono, about the controversial Japanese feminist performer Hanayagi Genshu; Hidden Faces, the internationally acclaimed, collaborative documentary with/about Egyptian women; and The Good Wife of Tokyo in which they examine women, love and marriage in Japanese society.

    Kim Longinotto

    2005 Sister in Law

    2002 Day I Will Never Forget

    2000 Gaea Girls

    1998 Divorce Iranian Style

    1996 Rock Wives(ㄒV)

    1995 Shinjuku Boys

    1994 Dream Girls

    1992 Good Wife of Tokyo

    1990 Hidden Faces

    1989 Eat the Kimono

    1982 Underage

    1976 Pride of Place

    1975 Theatre Girls

    Director/ Kim Longinotto & Claire Hunt

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