Like Twenty Impossibles (Ka'inana Ashrun Mustaheel)

Succint and powerful Film Comment

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, like twenty impossibles wryly questions artistic responsibility and the politics of filmmaking, while speaking to the fragmentation of a people.

Annemarie Jacir, Palestine 2003, 17 min, 35mm, colour, Arab./Engl. Engl. subtitles
Cast Reem Abu-Sbaih, Ismail Dabbagh, Raja’I Khateeb, Rami Mussalem, Shadi Zumorrod, Ashraf Abu Moch | Director of Photography Phillipe Bellaiche | Musical Score Kamran Rastegar | Sound Design Bill Toles | Edited, Directed and Produced by Annemarie Jacir

Subjects: Palestine, Occupation, Film-making, Travel-restrictions