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For the final pick of the 2021 Mizna Film Series, we continue to celebrate the “best of” Mizna’s film festival with a blast from TCAFF’s past. Bringing back one of our audience favorites from the first Arab film festival in March of 2003, we’re excited to screen Elia Suleiman’s Divine Intervention in-person at the Trylon Cinema. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see the remastered version of this classic, absurd comedy on the big screen.
This film screens IN PERSON ONLY at Trylon Cinema on Wednesday, December 22, 2021 at 7pm.
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ABOUT THE FILM
A love story takes place between a Palestinian man living in Jerusalem and a Palestinian woman from Ramallah. The man, ES, 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 exempt reality from occupation. They are unable to preserve their intimacy in the face of a siege. A complicity of solemn desire begins to generate violent repercussions and against the odds, their angry hearts counter-attack with spasms of spectacular fantasy.
