Like Twenty Impossibles
Ka'inana ashrun mustaheel
When a Palestinian film crew decides to avert a closed checkpoint by taking a side road, the passengers are slowly taken apart by the brutality of military occupation. Both a visual poem and a narrative about the fragmentation of a people, it also questions the politics of filmmaking.
All Short films at IFFR 2017
Also in this combined programme
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Introduction to the End of an Argument
Snippets from Western films, documentaries and news coverage are woven together to expose their racial bias when depicting the Middle East, Arab cultu -
20 Handshakes for Peace
The Oslo Accords handshake between Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Bill Clinton repeated 20 times; tainted by countless shattered hopes. -
And Yet My Mask Is Powerful
A richly layered film in which 3D-printed Neolithic masks worn in destroyed Palestinian villages in Israel become a counterpoint to the dominant image
Film details
- Country of production
- Palestine
- Year
- 2003
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2017
- Length
- 17'
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
