Chronicle of a Disappearance
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Chronicle of a Disappearance (Arabic
: Segell Ikhtifa) is a 1996
drama film
by Palestinian
director and actor
Elia Suleiman
. Suleiman stars in the film along with his family members, his relatives, and other non-actors. Dhat Productions produced the film. The film features no real storyline or character arc. Suleiman plays himself returning to Israel
and the West Bank
after a long absence which is followed by a series of barely connected vignettes and sketches, which are intended to convey the feelings of restlessness and uncertainly from Palestinian statelessness. The film's tone varies through these scenes such as "Nazareth Personal Diary", which has a light and domestic tone, and "Jerusalem Political Diary", which has a more ideological tone.
Chronicle of a Disappearance was Suleiman's first feature film. It has received international critical acclaim and was shown at the of 1996
Venice Film Festival
, where it won the award for Best First Film Prize.
and the election
of Benjamin Netanyahu
, with the strained relations implied but not explicitly depicted. It is divided into two major sections, all loosely tied together as the story of Suleiman's return to the West Bank
and Israel
. The character of Suleiman in the film is described only as 'E.S.' E.S. returns from a twelve-year exile in New York City
and is now in unfamiliar territory. Within the film, no real plot or character development emerges. A series of mostly unconnected scenes take place one after the other in documentary film
like fashion. The gradual accumulation of images and dialogue start without conclusion presenting an unsettling kind of feeling, which was meant to convey the quality of life led by Palestinians
given their statelessness.
The first, and lightest, section is the "Nazareth Personal Diary", featuring warm observations of his family and his relatives' lives. Some of the notable vignette
s include the dull yet comedic routines of the proprietor of a souvenir shop called "the Holyland" in which he fills bottles of alleged holy water
from his own tap
and fails to keep a cheap camel statuette from falling over on his shelves. E.S. and the shop owner spend time sitting in front of the stop waiting futilely for tourists to stop by. A boat full of Arab men fish, as one of the men bashes various Palestinian families that his friend does not belong to while praising the one that his friend does belong to. Suleiman also interviews a Russian Orthodox cleric who rails against the tourists polluting the Sea of Galilee
.
A short middle segment shows E.S. getting up to speak at a conference on Palestinian film making
; the microphone immediately begins feeding back
and he leaves the podium. The last section, "Jerusalem Political Diary, has a quicker narrative pace and a more overtly ideological message. Absurd humor is evoked alongside feelings of anti-Israeli paranoia in the characters; for example, what first appears to be a terrorist's hand grenade held by a Palestinian turns out to be a cigarette lighter.
Suleiman discovers an Israeli policeman's walkie-talkie
, and he then meets up with a single young Arab woman who is engaging in a search for an apartment that is just as fruitless as the two men's search for tourists. The woman, who speaks fluent Hebrew
, is told by Jewish landlords that they do not rent to Arabs, while an Arab landlord tells her to live at home in accordance to Islamic tradition. She uses the walkie-talkie to play various pranks on the Israeli police, at one point singing an overly malevolent version of Israel's national anthem
over the air. In the last part of the film, the woman stages a piece in which the police unwittingly participate as a member of a guerrilla theatre
group. The end comes after a long shot of Suliman's parents sleeping, with all the lights off and Israeli material playing on their television.
in extreme poverty; an interviewer later compared his background to the drawings by the late Palestinian cartoonist Naji al-Ali
. He left school at sixteen both out of his opposition to the "structured and confined" nature of his education as well as his difficult socio-economic conditions, and he immigrated
to New York to live there for several years. He became seriously interested in filmmaking almost by accident, being asked to translate some parts of a film by the Lebanese
-Canadian filmmaker Jay Salloum. Suleiman went on to direct two short films before moving to Jerusalem in 1994, working for Bir Zeit University.
Suleiman has said that Chronicle of a Disappearance is "a journey in search of what it means to be Palestinian." Suleiman told his own personal story in the film. In his production notes, Suleiman wrote that "My life makes me laugh... I am far from being courageous. I hate venturing. I wish to settle down and lead a linear existence, but even when I purposely attempt to conform, something is bound to go wrong." The Arabic
, Hebrew
, French
, English
, and Russian
languages are all spoken in the film.
The cast includes Elia Suleiman himself as well as Fuad Suleiman, Nazira Suleiman, Ula Tabari, James Daher, Juliet Mazzawi, Fawaz Eilemi, Leonid Alexeenko, and Iaha Mouhamad. Much of the cast are related to him. The company Dhat Productions produced the film along with assistance from the European Union Media Project Production Company, the Centre national de la cinématographie
, the Fund for the Promotion of Israeli Quality Film, and the Independent Television Service. Assaf Ami, of Norma Productions, served as the executive producer.
and the Museum of Modern Art's
New Director/New Films series. It was shown at the Venice Film Festival
of 1996
and won the 'Best First Film Prize'. In October 1999, a group of Israeli critics cited by The New York Times
selected the film as the best Israeli film of the year. It has notably been one of the few Palestinian films
to receive national release in the United States
, which occurred in fall 1997.
Reviews praising the film appeared in The Austin Chronicle and The Los Angeles Times. Artforum
extolled its use of artistic minimalism
and called it a "shrewdly soft-voiced argument for peace". Janet Maslin of The New York Times
called it "quite remote" as well as "schematic and abstract". She also stated, "[f]or every astute or revealing detail about a culture full of frustrations, there is liable to be a glimpse of someone falling asleep on a sofa or staring disconsolately into space." Cinematic scholar Gönül Dönmez-Colin dedicated a chapter to the film in her 2007 book The Cinema of North Africa and the Middle East. She commented, "Much of Palestinian film deals with the liminality of loss and disappearance- of country, of the people, and of the self. In other Palestinian film, however, are these processes of love disappearance more beautifully captured than in Chronicle of a Disappearance."
Richard Brody of The New Yorker
labeled it "witty" and lauded its "graceful artistry and rhetoric". He also stated that Suleiman "constructs his film disingenuously around the politics that he omits". All Movie Guide
commented that "[i]n his fragmented, personal, self-critical, and low-key way, Suleiman makes his point that the disappearance he's chronicling is that of the identity of his people." Sam Adams of The Philadelphia City Paper stated that the film "succeeds because of aesthetics, not politics' and avoids ideological commentary on the conflict. Critic Dennis Schwartz of Ozus' World Movie Reviews panned the film. In particular, he cited its portrayal of both Nazareth
and Jerusalem as part of 'Palestine
' despite the sovereign Israeli history in those cites as inappropriate and provocative. He also criticized its disjointed, non-linear structure.
When asked about the international critical praise for the film by IndieWire
, Suleiman commented:
Arabic language
Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...
: Segell Ikhtifa) is a 1996
1996 in film
Major releases this year included Scream, Independence Day, Fargo, Trainspotting, The English Patient, Twister, Mars Attacks!, Jerry Maguire and a version of Evita starring Madonna.-Events:...
drama film
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
by Palestinian
Palestinian people
The Palestinian people, also referred to as Palestinians or Palestinian Arabs , are an Arabic-speaking people with origins in Palestine. Despite various wars and exoduses, roughly one third of the world's Palestinian population continues to reside in the area encompassing the West Bank, the Gaza...
director and actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
Elia Suleiman
Elia Suleiman
Elia Suleiman , is a Palestinian film director and actor. He is best known for the 2002 film Divine Intervention , a modern tragic comedy on living under occupation in Palestine which won the Jury Prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival...
. Suleiman stars in the film along with his family members, his relatives, and other non-actors. Dhat Productions produced the film. The film features no real storyline or character arc. Suleiman plays himself returning to Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
and the West Bank
West Bank
The West Bank ) of the Jordan River is the landlocked geographical eastern part of the Palestinian territories located in Western Asia. To the west, north, and south, the West Bank shares borders with the state of Israel. To the east, across the Jordan River, lies the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan...
after a long absence which is followed by a series of barely connected vignettes and sketches, which are intended to convey the feelings of restlessness and uncertainly from Palestinian statelessness. The film's tone varies through these scenes such as "Nazareth Personal Diary", which has a light and domestic tone, and "Jerusalem Political Diary", which has a more ideological tone.
Chronicle of a Disappearance was Suleiman's first feature film. It has received international critical acclaim and was shown at the of 1996
53rd Venice International Film Festival
The 53rd Venice International Film Festival was held on 28 August - 7 September, 1996.-Jury:* Roman Polanski * Paul Auster* Souleymane Cissé* Mrinal Sen* Callisto Cosulich* Anjelica Huston* Miriam Mifai* Antonio Skármeta* Hulya Ucansu...
Venice Film Festival
Venice Film Festival
The Venice International Film Festival is the oldest international film festival in the world. Founded by Count Giuseppe Volpi in 1932 as the "Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica", the festival has since taken place every year in late August or early September on the island of the...
, where it won the award for Best First Film Prize.
Plot
The film is set in the tense period in the Israel-Palestinian peace process shortly after the assassination of Yitzhak RabinAssassination of Yitzhak Rabin
The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin took place on November 4, 1995 at 21:30, at the end of a rally in support of the Oslo Accords at the Kings of Israel Square in Tel Aviv...
and the election
Israeli legislative election, 1996
Elections for the fourteenth Knesset were held in Israel on 29 May 1996. Voter turnout was 79.3%.The 1996 elections included two new changes, both designed to increase the stability of the Knesset. First, the Prime Minister was to be elected on a separate ballot from the remaining members of the...
of Benjamin Netanyahu
Benjamin Netanyahu
Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu is the current Prime Minister of Israel. He serves also as the Chairman of the Likud Party, as a Knesset member, as the Health Minister of Israel, as the Pensioner Affairs Minister of Israel and as the Economic Strategy Minister of Israel.Netanyahu is the first and, to...
, with the strained relations implied but not explicitly depicted. It is divided into two major sections, all loosely tied together as the story of Suleiman's return to the West Bank
West Bank
The West Bank ) of the Jordan River is the landlocked geographical eastern part of the Palestinian territories located in Western Asia. To the west, north, and south, the West Bank shares borders with the state of Israel. To the east, across the Jordan River, lies the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan...
and Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
. The character of Suleiman in the film is described only as 'E.S.' E.S. returns from a twelve-year exile in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
and is now in unfamiliar territory. Within the film, no real plot or character development emerges. A series of mostly unconnected scenes take place one after the other in documentary film
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
like fashion. The gradual accumulation of images and dialogue start without conclusion presenting an unsettling kind of feeling, which was meant to convey the quality of life led by Palestinians
Palestinian people
The Palestinian people, also referred to as Palestinians or Palestinian Arabs , are an Arabic-speaking people with origins in Palestine. Despite various wars and exoduses, roughly one third of the world's Palestinian population continues to reside in the area encompassing the West Bank, the Gaza...
given their statelessness.
The first, and lightest, section is the "Nazareth Personal Diary", featuring warm observations of his family and his relatives' lives. Some of the notable vignette
Vignette (literature)
In theatrical script writing, sketch stories, and poetry, a vignette is a short impressionistic scene that focuses on one moment or gives a trenchant impression about a character, an idea, or a setting and sometimes an object...
s include the dull yet comedic routines of the proprietor of a souvenir shop called "the Holyland" in which he fills bottles of alleged holy water
Holy water
Holy water is water that, in Catholicism, Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Lutheranism, Oriental Orthodoxy, and some other churches, has been sanctified by a priest for the purpose of baptism, the blessing of persons, places, and objects; or as a means of repelling evil.The use for baptism and...
from his own tap
Tap water
Tap water is a principal component of "indoor plumbing", which became available in urban areas of the developed world during the last quarter of the 19th century, and common during the mid-20th century...
and fails to keep a cheap camel statuette from falling over on his shelves. E.S. and the shop owner spend time sitting in front of the stop waiting futilely for tourists to stop by. A boat full of Arab men fish, as one of the men bashes various Palestinian families that his friend does not belong to while praising the one that his friend does belong to. Suleiman also interviews a Russian Orthodox cleric who rails against the tourists polluting the Sea of Galilee
Sea of Galilee
The Sea of Galilee, also Kinneret, Lake of Gennesaret, or Lake Tiberias , is the largest freshwater lake in Israel, and it is approximately in circumference, about long, and wide. The lake has a total area of , and a maximum depth of approximately 43 m...
.
A short middle segment shows E.S. getting up to speak at a conference on Palestinian film making
Cinema of Palestine
Palestinian cinema is relatively young in comparison to Arab cinema as a whole, many Palestinian movies are made with European and Israeli funding and support. Palestinian movies are not exclusively produced in Arabic and some are made in English, French and Hebrew...
; the microphone immediately begins feeding back
Audio feedback
Audio feedback is a special kind of positive feedback which occurs when a sound loop exists between an audio input and an audio output...
and he leaves the podium. The last section, "Jerusalem Political Diary, has a quicker narrative pace and a more overtly ideological message. Absurd humor is evoked alongside feelings of anti-Israeli paranoia in the characters; for example, what first appears to be a terrorist's hand grenade held by a Palestinian turns out to be a cigarette lighter.
Suleiman discovers an Israeli policeman's walkie-talkie
Walkie-talkie
A walkie-talkie is a hand-held, portable, two-way radio transceiver. Its development during the Second World War has been variously credited to Donald L. Hings, radio engineer Alfred J. Gross, and engineering teams at Motorola...
, and he then meets up with a single young Arab woman who is engaging in a search for an apartment that is just as fruitless as the two men's search for tourists. The woman, who speaks fluent Hebrew
Hebrew language
Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Culturally, is it considered by Jews and other religious groups as the language of the Jewish people, though other Jewish languages had originated among diaspora Jews, and the Hebrew language is also used by non-Jewish groups, such...
, is told by Jewish landlords that they do not rent to Arabs, while an Arab landlord tells her to live at home in accordance to Islamic tradition. She uses the walkie-talkie to play various pranks on the Israeli police, at one point singing an overly malevolent version of Israel's national anthem
Hatikvah
"Hatikvah" is the national anthem of Israel. The anthem was written by Naphtali Herz Imber, a secular Galician Jew from Zolochiv , who moved to the Land of Israel in the early 1880s....
over the air. In the last part of the film, the woman stages a piece in which the police unwittingly participate as a member of a guerrilla theatre
Guerrilla theatre
Guerrilla theatre, or Guerrilla Performance, is a term coined in 1965 within the San Francisco Mime Troupe to describe its performances, that in spirit of the Che Guevara writings from which the term guerrilla is taken, were committed to "revolutionary sociopolitical change." The group...
group. The end comes after a long shot of Suliman's parents sleeping, with all the lights off and Israeli material playing on their television.
Cast
- Elia SuleimanElia SuleimanElia Suleiman , is a Palestinian film director and actor. He is best known for the 2002 film Divine Intervention , a modern tragic comedy on living under occupation in Palestine which won the Jury Prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival...
as E.S. - Ola Tabari as Adan
- Nazira Suleiman as Mother
- Fuad Suleiman as Father
- Jamel Daher as Jamal, owner of the Holyland
- Juliet Mazzawi as The aunt
- Fawaz Eilemi as Abu Adnan
- Leonid Alexeenko as Priest
- Iaha Mouhamad as The writer
Production
Elia Suleiman was born in 1960 in NazarethNazareth
Nazareth is the largest city in the North District of Israel. Known as "the Arab capital of Israel," the population is made up predominantly of Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel...
in extreme poverty; an interviewer later compared his background to the drawings by the late Palestinian cartoonist Naji al-Ali
Naji al-Ali
Naji Salim al-Ali was a Palestinian cartoonist, noted for the political criticism of Israel in his works.He drew over 40,000 cartoons, which often reflected Palestinian and Arab public opinion and were sharply critical commentaries on Palestinian and Arab politics and political leaders...
. He left school at sixteen both out of his opposition to the "structured and confined" nature of his education as well as his difficult socio-economic conditions, and he immigrated
Immigration to the United States
Immigration to the United States has been a major source of population growth and cultural change throughout much of the history of the United States. The economic, social, and political aspects of immigration have caused controversy regarding ethnicity, economic benefits, jobs for non-immigrants,...
to New York to live there for several years. He became seriously interested in filmmaking almost by accident, being asked to translate some parts of a film by the Lebanese
Lebanese people
The Lebanese people are a nation and ethnic group of Levantine people originating in what is today the country of Lebanon, including those who had inhabited Mount Lebanon prior to the creation of the modern Lebanese state....
-Canadian filmmaker Jay Salloum. Suleiman went on to direct two short films before moving to Jerusalem in 1994, working for Bir Zeit University.
Suleiman has said that Chronicle of a Disappearance is "a journey in search of what it means to be Palestinian." Suleiman told his own personal story in the film. In his production notes, Suleiman wrote that "My life makes me laugh... I am far from being courageous. I hate venturing. I wish to settle down and lead a linear existence, but even when I purposely attempt to conform, something is bound to go wrong." The Arabic
Arabic language
Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...
, Hebrew
Hebrew language
Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Culturally, is it considered by Jews and other religious groups as the language of the Jewish people, though other Jewish languages had originated among diaspora Jews, and the Hebrew language is also used by non-Jewish groups, such...
, French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
, English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, and Russian
Russian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
languages are all spoken in the film.
The cast includes Elia Suleiman himself as well as Fuad Suleiman, Nazira Suleiman, Ula Tabari, James Daher, Juliet Mazzawi, Fawaz Eilemi, Leonid Alexeenko, and Iaha Mouhamad. Much of the cast are related to him. The company Dhat Productions produced the film along with assistance from the European Union Media Project Production Company, the Centre national de la cinématographie
Centre National de la Cinématographie
Le Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée or CNC is a French agency of the Ministry of Culture, responsible for the production and promotion of cinematic and audiovisual arts in France, is a publicly owned establishment, with legal and financial autonomy.Created by law on 25 October 1946...
, the Fund for the Promotion of Israeli Quality Film, and the Independent Television Service. Assaf Ami, of Norma Productions, served as the executive producer.
Reception
The film has received international critical acclaim. It was played at SundanceSundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new...
and the Museum of Modern Art's
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...
New Director/New Films series. It was shown at the Venice Film Festival
Venice Film Festival
The Venice International Film Festival is the oldest international film festival in the world. Founded by Count Giuseppe Volpi in 1932 as the "Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica", the festival has since taken place every year in late August or early September on the island of the...
of 1996
53rd Venice International Film Festival
The 53rd Venice International Film Festival was held on 28 August - 7 September, 1996.-Jury:* Roman Polanski * Paul Auster* Souleymane Cissé* Mrinal Sen* Callisto Cosulich* Anjelica Huston* Miriam Mifai* Antonio Skármeta* Hulya Ucansu...
and won the 'Best First Film Prize'. In October 1999, a group of Israeli critics cited by The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
selected the film as the best Israeli film of the year. It has notably been one of the few Palestinian films
Cinema of Palestine
Palestinian cinema is relatively young in comparison to Arab cinema as a whole, many Palestinian movies are made with European and Israeli funding and support. Palestinian movies are not exclusively produced in Arabic and some are made in English, French and Hebrew...
to receive national release in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, which occurred in fall 1997.
Reviews praising the film appeared in The Austin Chronicle and The Los Angeles Times. Artforum
Artforum
Artforum is an international monthly magazine specializing in contemporary art.-Publication:The magazine is published ten times a year, September through May, along with an annual summer issue...
extolled its use of artistic minimalism
Minimalism
Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is set out to expose the essence, essentials or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts...
and called it a "shrewdly soft-voiced argument for peace". Janet Maslin of The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
called it "quite remote" as well as "schematic and abstract". She also stated, "[f]or every astute or revealing detail about a culture full of frustrations, there is liable to be a glimpse of someone falling asleep on a sofa or staring disconsolately into space." Cinematic scholar Gönül Dönmez-Colin dedicated a chapter to the film in her 2007 book The Cinema of North Africa and the Middle East. She commented, "Much of Palestinian film deals with the liminality of loss and disappearance- of country, of the people, and of the self. In other Palestinian film, however, are these processes of love disappearance more beautifully captured than in Chronicle of a Disappearance."
Richard Brody of The New Yorker
The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
labeled it "witty" and lauded its "graceful artistry and rhetoric". He also stated that Suleiman "constructs his film disingenuously around the politics that he omits". All Movie Guide
All Movie Guide
Allrovi is a commercial database launched by the Rovi Corporation in 2011. It compiles information about music and movies from the former services Allmovie and Allmusic.-Content:...
commented that "[i]n his fragmented, personal, self-critical, and low-key way, Suleiman makes his point that the disappearance he's chronicling is that of the identity of his people." Sam Adams of The Philadelphia City Paper stated that the film "succeeds because of aesthetics, not politics' and avoids ideological commentary on the conflict. Critic Dennis Schwartz of Ozus' World Movie Reviews panned the film. In particular, he cited its portrayal of both Nazareth
Nazareth
Nazareth is the largest city in the North District of Israel. Known as "the Arab capital of Israel," the population is made up predominantly of Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel...
and Jerusalem as part of 'Palestine
Palestine
Palestine is a conventional name, among others, used to describe the geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, and various adjoining lands....
' despite the sovereign Israeli history in those cites as inappropriate and provocative. He also criticized its disjointed, non-linear structure.
When asked about the international critical praise for the film by IndieWire
IndieWire
indieWIRE is a daily news site for the independent film community. It covers indie, documentary and foreign language films, as well industry news, film festival reports, filmmaker interviews and movie reviews...
, Suleiman commented:
See also
Films about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict- List of Palestinian films
- Artistic minimalismMinimalismMinimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is set out to expose the essence, essentials or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts...
- Notable films in 19961996 in filmMajor releases this year included Scream, Independence Day, Fargo, Trainspotting, The English Patient, Twister, Mars Attacks!, Jerry Maguire and a version of Evita starring Madonna.-Events:...