12:30 – 2:00 p.m. EST*
The Jerusalem Fund
Considered the second installment in Elia Suleiman’s triology (starting with Chronicle of a Disappearance and ending with The Time that Remains), Divine Intervention has been variously described by critics who were not used to writing about Palestinian cinema as a Jaques Tati-like or Buster Keaton-esque “black comedy” about the existential absurdity Palestinians endure living in Israel and under the occupation.
Join us as we revisit this film, and its sequence of vignettes that provide an ironically authentic tableau of life for young and old living in this limbo, and which culminates in an unforgettable genre-bending fantasy sequence: