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Divine Intervention (Jan 2003)
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Emma Boltanski, Elia Suleiman, Jamel Daher, Nayef Fahoum Daher, George Ibrahim, George Khleifi, Salman Nattor, Menashe Noy, Nazira Suleiman, Amer Daher, Manal Khader, Avi Kleinberger
"Divine Intervention" follows ES, 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.