Yashmak (2000, UK)

Short black and white film in which a man sets out to shoplift in a department store by dressing in the full arab burqa.

But the Qu'ran says, Cursed are those men who try to resemble women, and he is spotted and chased through the streets by a security man.

In the credits the actor playing the shoplifter in the yashmak is only identified as Coco.

The interesting thing is that even under the burqa it's easy to tell from the body language that it's a man.

HF August 2002

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