Hidden Faces (1990)

The film was originally conceived as a portrait of Dr Nawal El Saadawi the wellknown Egyptian doctor writer and womens 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