The Time that Remains
By: Elia Suleiman
(France/Belgium/UK/Italy,
2009, 109 min)
Screens: Sunday, November 13th, 7:30 pm
Synopsis:
A wry, semi-autobiographical account of Palestinians, reduced to living as a minority in their own homeland, is told through the experiences of acclaimed director Elia Suleiman’s family and across several generations. The film examines the impact that the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 had upon its indigenous Palestinian people, and illustrates the intimate details of one family’s struggle to continue living on their land to the present day, in spite of Israeli occupation.
This film is a dark comedy similar to Suleiman’s Divine Intervention, which won the 2002 Cannes Jury Prize and was screened at Mizna’s first Arab Film Festival in 2003.
Director's Bio:
Elia Suleiman is a Palestinian film director and actor. He is best known for his 2002 film Divine Intervention, a modern tragic comedy about living under occupation in Palestine. The film won the Jury Prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. Suleiman’s cinematic style is often compared to that of Jacques Tati and Buster Keaton, for its poetic interplay between burlesque and sobriety.
