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Chronicle of a Disappearance (1996)

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Chronicle of a Disappearance

Elia Suleiman | France, Palestine and Israel | 1996 | M
Film

When

Wed 15 Oct 2025

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Set in the tense atmosphere following the 1995 assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the subsequent (first) election of Benjamin Netanyahu, Suleiman’s debut feature expresses the uncertainties of Palestinian daily life through a disconnected, disquieting and comic series of vignettes.

Starring Suleiman himself along with many of his family members, the director’s innate humanism and his film’s eclectic tapestry combine for a movingly egalitarian experience.

Winner of the Luigi De Laurentiis Award for a Debut Film at the 1996 Venice Film Festival.

Format: 35mm
Language: Arabic, English, French and Hebrew with English subtitles
Source: Pyramide
Courtesy: Pyramide
Runtime: 88 mins

Event duration

88 mins

Rating

M

Coarse Language

Where

Cinema 1, Level 2
ACMI, Fed Square

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