TUESDAY 25th OCTOBER
TIME 8.30pm admission €6.50 Phoenix Cinema Dingle
FEATURE FILM : DIVINE
INTERVENTION
Elia Suleiman French-Palestine / 2002 / 92min / 35mm / Colour
In Nazareth, under a guise of banal normality, the town embraces
folly.
Under pressure from his failing business, a man takes matters
into his own hands and tries to break a chain reaction of
petty feuds.He breaks down himself.The man is Elia Suleiman’s
father.
A love story takes place between a Palestinian man living
in Jerusalem and a Palestinian woman from Ramallah.The man
-Elia Suleima - shifts between his ailing father and his love
life, trying to keep both alive.
Because of the political situation, the woman's freedom of
movement ends at the Israeli army checkpoint between the two
cities. Barred from crossing, the lovers' intimate encounters
take place on a deserted lot right beside the checkpoint.
The lovers are unable to escape from the reality of occupation.
They are unable to preserve their intimacy in the face of
a siege. A complicity of solemn desire begins to generate
violent repercussions. Against the odds, their angry hearts
counter-attack with spasms of spectacular fantasy.
•WINNER OF THE GRAND JURY PRIZE CANNES
like twenty impossibles Annemarie Jacir
Palestine / 2003 / 17min / 35mm / Colour
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.
FILM CLUB : 10.30pm
til late music session in McCarthy's Bar. 70's Irish Rock played
by 'FIST'
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