15th Dec 2002

Palestinian Film Barred From Oscars

Unbelieveable. A new film “Divine Intervention,” by Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman, which won the international critics’ prize at Cannes and best foreign film at the European Film Awards, is ineligible for the American Academy Awards, apparently because Palestine is not a country.

There is a showing of the film in NYC on December 17 at 6:30pm at The New School’s Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th St.


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