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SPECIAL FILM PREVIEW in aid of Bir Zeit University and Palestine Solidary Campaign. Sunday 12 January 2003 at 11.00am, Renoir Cinema, Brunswick Centre, (near Russell Square) WC1. Divine Intervention (Yadon Ilaheyya) Directed by Elia Suleiman With Elia Suleiman, Manal Khader and Nayef Fahoum Daher France/Palestine 2002 Arabic and Hebrew with English sub-titles 92' Jury Prize Winner and International Critics' Prize Cannes 2002 The film the Academy of Motion Picture Arts refused because Palestine does not exist! Elia Suleiman's film is a deeply humourous and ironic look at the current situation in Palestine. Set in Nazareth, its sardonic approach to Israeli occupation and oppression, its effects on daily life, resistance and the possibility of love between lovers based in Jerusalem and Ramallah has echoes of Buster Keaton and Jacques Tati but is very much Suleiman's own. Fantasy and visual gags abound in a film in which humour leaves no-one in any doubt that, despite all, the Palestinians still triumph. Tickets £10 available on the day at the Renoir; tickets can be reserved in advance from PSC, telephone 020 7700 6192 or email [log in to unmask] Preview generously provided by Artificial Eye Film Company Film opens at the Renoir, Chelsea and Curzon Soho cinemas 17 January.