Chronicle of a Disappearance (سجل اختفاء) is a drama film by Palestinian director and actor Elia Suleiman. Suleiman’s first feature film, Chronicle of a Disappearance documents feeling of restlessness and uncertainty resulting from Palestinian statelessness. Winner of prize for Best First Film at Venice Film Festival 1996.
Suleiman stars in the film along with his family members, his relatives, and other non-actors. The film unfolds in a series of seemingly unconnected cinematic tableaux, each of them focused on incidents or characters which seldom reappear later in the film. Among the many unrelated scenes, there is a Palestinian actress struggling to find an apartment in West Jerusalem, the owner of the Holy Land souvenir shop preparing merchandise for incoming Japanese tourists, a group of old women gossiping about their relatives, and an Israeli police van which screeches to a halt so several heavily armed soldiers can get off the car and urinate.
doors at 7pm, show at 7:30pm, sliding scale donation at the door ($10 suggested minimum)
