fw: Screening: Divine Intervention by Elia Suleiman December 17 at 6:30pm, NYC

[claudia westermann]

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Because of technical limitations, this movie will be screened in video.
The film will be released on January 17 at the Angelika in 35mm.

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   Tuesday December 17 at 6:30pm
   at The New School's Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th St. in NYC

   Divine Intervention
   by Elia Suleiman, France/Palestine, 2002, 35mm, 92 min.
   Arabic with English subtitles, FREE to the public


   Subway: A,C,E to West 4th Street   1,2,3,9,L to 14th Street-6th Avenue
   4,5,6,N,R to 14th Street-Union Square

   See location A at http://www.newschool.edu/gf/directory/map3.htm

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Alwan NYC in cooperation with The Diversity Initiative of The New School
University, and Avatar Films present

   Divine Intervention
   by Elia Suleiman, France/Palestine, 2002, 35mm, 92 min.
   Arabic with English subtitles
   with Elia Suleiman, Manal Kahder, Naeif Daher, Nayef Fahoum Daher
   Producers: Humbert Balsan, Avi Kleinberger, Joachim Ortmanns,
     Babette Schroder, Elia Suleiman
   Screenwriter: Elia Suleiman
   Cinematographer: Marc-Andr=E9 Batigne
   Editor: V=E9ronique Lange

Palestinian director and performer Elia Suleiman delivers a darkly comic
masterpiece. Suleiman utilizes irreverence, wit, mysticism and insight to
craft an intense, hallucinogenic and extremely adept exploration of the
dreams and nightmares of Palestinians and Israelis living in uncertain
times.

Subtitled, "A Chronicle of Love and Pain," Divine Intervention follows
ES, is a character played by and clearly based upon the filmmaker himself.
ES is burdened with a sick father, a stalled screenplay and an unrequited
love affair with a beautiful Palestinian woman (Manal Khader) living in
Ramallah. An Israeli checkpoint on the Nazareth-Ramallah road forces the
couple to rendezvous in an adjacent parking lot. Their relationship and
the absurd situations around them serve as metaphors for the lunacy of
larger cultural problems, and the result is palpable, bottled personal and
political rage.

Suleiman's wry chronicle sketches his hometown of Nazareth as a place
consumed by ferocious absurdity, where residents harbor feuds, dump
garbage into neighbors' yards, and surreptitiously block access roads.
Characters transgress rules with abandon - stealing forbidden cigarette
breaks in a hospital corridor, for example. Yet the film's acerbic,
absurdist sense of humor (earning comparisons to Jacques Tati and Nanni
Moretti), in a situation where death seems to lurk at every corner, and
Suleiman's own eye-popping directorial interventions, are what earned him
the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes.  (Avatar)


Awards
** Cannes Film Festival, Grand Jury Prize, and FiPresci Prize, 2002

Selections
* Toronto International Film Festival 2002
* New York Film Festival 2002
* Mill Valley Film Festival 2002
* AFI Film Festival, Los Angeles 2002
* Denver International Film Festival 2002
* Arab Film Festival, San Francisco 2002


   Tuesday December 17 at 6:30pm
   at The New School's Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th St. in NYC

   Divine Intervention
   by Elia Suleiman, France/Palestine, 2002, 35mm, 92 min.
   Arabic with English subtitles

   Subway: A,C,E to West 4th Street   1,2,3,9,L to 14th Street-6th Avenue
   4,5,6,N,R to 14th Street-Union Square

   See location A at http://www.newschool.edu/gf/directory/map3.htm

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