"Like Twenty Impossibles"
by Annemarie Jacir (2003)
Fiction Short - Arabic,
English & Hebrew with English sub-titles
Approx. Length: 17 mins.
Description:
Occupied Palestine: A
serene landscape now pockmarked by military checkpoints. When
a Palestinian film crew decides to avert a closed checkpoint by
taking a remote side road, the political landscape unravels, and
the passengers are slowly taken apart by the mundane brutality of
military occupation. Both a visual poem and a narrative about the
fragmentation of a people, "like twenty impossibles" questions
the politics of filmmaking and the opportunism of artists.
* International Debut, Cannes Film Festival, 2003
* National Finalist - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences,
Student Academy Awards
* Best Short Screenplay - Nantucket Film Festival
* Best Short Film - Palm Springs International Short Film Festival
* Best Short Film (Emerging Narrative) - IFP/New York
* Silver Plaque - Chicago International Film Festival
* Best Short Film - Institute Du Monde Arabe Biannual
* Special Jury Prize - Ramallah International Film Festival
* Best Films of the Year list, 2003 - Film Comment Magazine
* 25 New Faces of Independent Cinema 2004 - Filmmaker Magazine
"Grippingly suspenseful while also satirizing the power imbalances
inherent in political filmmaking" - FILMMMAKER
"Succinct and powerful" - FILM COMMENT
"Compared in some quarters to Pontecorvo's also pseudo-documentary
The Battle of Algiers, this is obviously more compact and yet, in
its necessary absence of character development and visual brutality,
equally devastating in condemnation - BLUE JAI ARTS
"Blurs the line between truth and fiction to tell a story of
art bowed but not defeated by the routine violence of Israeli occupation"
- SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN
"Like the politics it discusses, it is resolutely, and brilliantly,
inconclusive" - TIME OUT
Distributor E-mail: philistinefilms@hotmail.com
More about the film &
film-maker: www.philistinefilms.org
Canadian Screenings:
Winnipeg
Calgary
Rated: PG (Manitoba Film
Classification Board), Mature Theme. |
