Norma Marcos is a critic, filmmaker and journalist who lives in Paris but was born in the Palestine territories, where she frequently works. While traveling to Palestine to begin production on a documentary, Marcos was detained by Israeli authorities, who held her in a jail in Bethlehem. Marcos insisted the charges against her were false and she ended up sending seven weeks behind bars while waiting for her case to be sorted out. In the meantime, Marcos began filming her new surroundings with a mini-DV camera, and shooting interviews with one of her occasional visitors, her seven-year-old niece Yara. Marcos fashioned her DV footage into a short documentary, En Attendant Ben Gurion (aka Waiting For Ben Gurion), which blends her jailbird's eye view of Bethlehem with a child's perspective on life in the Middle East. En Attendant Ben Gurion was screened in competition at the 2007 Rotterdam International Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
