SAUDI ARABIA - Under The Veil
A nation teeters between tradition and change as wealth, religious control, and reformist demands collide, exposing a society’s struggle to balance modernity and conservatism in a fight for its future.
Directed by Yorgos Avgeropoulos
SAUDI ARABIA - Under The Veil
A nation teeters between tradition and change as wealth, religious control, and reformist demands collide, exposing a society’s struggle to balance modernity and conservatism in a fight for its future.
71 min 2006 Full HD
Directed by Yorgos Avgeropoulos

SYNOPSIS
The hub of the Islamic world, the largest oil-producing country in the world, homeland of Osama Bin Laden, is balanced precariously between the “modern, Western way of life” and tradition.
Over-conservative clerics are asking for a return to the roots of Islam. Reformists are pressuring for liberties. The country is changing and its king is trying to keep a balance by satisfying everyone around him. Women who are not allowed to drive cars, reformists who are often jailed for voicing their demands, clerics and religious police who insist on dictating every aspect of life, Americans who insist on determining the country’s oil wealth.
The documentary sheds light on a society where theater, cinema and music are forbidden, while executions are a public spectacle. Wealth and oil, human rights, the “free besieged” life of the young, religion and terrorism… as seen through the eyes of ordinary people and the country’s VIPs.
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MAIN CREDITS
Written, Produced & Directed By: YORGOS AVGEROPOULOS
Research Coordinator: APOSTOLIS KAPAROUDAKIS
Editing Director: DIMITRIS NIKOLOPOULOS
Production Manager: ANASTASIA SKOUBRI
Director of Photography: YIANNIS AVGEROPOULOS