Film of the Week #22

August 26th - September 2nd 2020

Like Twenty Impossibles (2002)

Short, 20m


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. 

Director: Anne Marie Jacir

Writers: Annemarie Jacir, Kamran Rastegar

Cinematographer: Philippe Bellaiche

Starring: Reem Abu Sbaih, Ismail Dabbagh, Ashraf Abu Moch