Like Twenty Impossibles

Like Twenty Impossibles (Ka'inana Ashrun Mustaheel) is an independent short film written and directed by Annemarie Jacir in 2003.[1]

It received attention when it became the first ever short film from the Arab world to be chosen as an Official Selection of the Cannes International Film Festival. As well as being the first Palestinian short film in Cannes, it also marked the first time a Palestinian female director walked the red carpet. The film went on to win numerous awards and was a National Finalist at the Academy Awards, breaking new ground for Arab cinema. It is a fiction film following a Palestinian film crew shot in Palestine. Annemarie Jacir is considered part of the Arab New Wave Cinema.

Synopsis

Occupied Palestine: A serene landscape now pockmarked by military checkpoints. When a Palestinian film crew averts 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.

First Palestinian short film to be an Official Selection at Cannes Film Festival, a National Finalist of Academy Awards and winner of over 15 awards including Best Film at Chicago International Film Festival, IFP/New York, Institut du Monde Arabe, and Palm Springs International Film Festival.

Awards

Notes

  1. ↑ http://www.mecfilm.de/en/media/like/Presskit_20_Impossibles.pdf

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