Trailer for "like twenty impossibles" film - a film by Annemarie Jacir

like twenty impossibles
Short film, Fiction
Directed by ANNEMARIE JACIR
Actors REEM ABU-SBAIH, ISMAIL DABBAGH, RAJA'I KHATEEB, RAMI MUSSALEM, SHADI ZUMORROD, ASHRAF ABU MOCH




Palestine, 2003

"like twenty impossibles" was an official selection of the Cannes International Film Festival, went on to be a Student Academy Awards Finalist, and has won more than 15 awards at International festivals including Best Film at the Palm Springs Short Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival, Institute Du Monde Arabe Biennale, Mannheim-Heidelberg Film Festival, and IFP/New York. "like twenty impossibles", named one of the ten best films of 2003 by Gavin Smith of Film Comment Magazine (Editors Choice) wryly questions artistic responsibility and the politics of film making while speaking to the fragmentation of a people.


Official website: http://www.philistinefilms.org

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"The most effecive filmic expression of occupation policy to date" - DAILY STAR, 2006

"like twenty impossibles is grippingly suspenseful while also satirizing the power imbalances inherent in political filmmaking" - FILMMAKER MAGAZINE

"Succinct and powerful" - FILM COMMENT

"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

"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 devasting in condemnation - BLUE JAI ARTS

"A Palestinian film crew attempting to pass a military checkpoint into
Jerusalem encounters firsthand the insidious nature of oppression in the lyrical and unnerving faux documentary like twenty impossibles - NASHVILLE NEWS

"In Jacir's Kiarostamian like twenty impossibles, we are left with unnerving silence" - THE VILLAGE VOICE

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