Chronicle of a Disappearance (1996): Cast & Plot

Set in the fraught years after Rabin’s assassination and during the early days of Netanyahu’s term, the film travels between the West Bank and Israel through a mosaic of scenes that feel more like a documentary than a traditional plot. At the center is Ali Suliman as The Man, who returns from twelve years in New York City to a landscape that feels both intimate and alien, where life continues under the shadow of statelessness. The film refuses a single through-line, instead stacking impressions and conversations that accumulate without a neat conclusion, aiming to convey the uneasy texture of daily life in a politically charged moment.