The Time That Remains

Le temps qu'il reste

Belgium, United Kingdom, Italy, France

2009

105 Min

Color

1.85:1

English, Hebrew, Arabic

Currently 4.0/5 Stars.
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PROD Michael Gentile, Elia Suleiman

CAST Ali Suleiman, Saleh Bakri, Elia Suleiman, Yasmine Haj, Leila Muammar, Isabelle Ramadan, Nina Jarjoura, Ziyad Bakri, Shafika Bajjali

SOUND Pierre Mertens, Christian Monheim

Cannes (In Competition), Toronto (Contemporary World Cinema), London (Film on the Square), São Paulo, Rotterdam (Spectrum)

Synopsis

The Time That Remains is a semi biographic film, in four historic episodes, about a family -my family – spanning from 1948, until recent times. The film is inspired by my father’s diaries of his personal accounts, starting from when he was a resistant fighter in 1948, and by my mother’s letters to family members who were forced to leave the country since then. Combined with my intimate memories of them and with them, the film attempts to portray the daily life of those Palestinians who remained in their land and were labeled « Israeli-Arabs », living as a minority in their own homeland. —Elia Suleiman

Director

Elia Suleiman

Elia Suleiman is a Palestinian-Israeli film director and actor. He is best known for the 2002 film Divine Intervention, a modern tragic comedy on living under occupation in the Palestinian territories which won the Jury Prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. Between 1982-1993, Suleiman lived in New York City, where he directed two short films: Introduction to the End of an Argument and Homage by Assassination, that won numerous awards.
In 1996, Suleiman directed Chronicle of a Disappearance, his first feature film. It won the Best First Film Prize at the 1996 Venice Film Festival. In 2002, Suleiman’s second feature film, Divine Intervention, subtitled, A Chronicle of Love and Pain, won the Jury Prize at the Festival de Cannes and the International Critics (FIPRESCI) Prize, also receiving the Best Foreign Film Prize at the European Awards in Rome. Suleiman was part of the jury for the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. —World Cinema Foundation

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Hani

10Feb13

I only liked the old neighbor who always comes up with incredible ideas for the middle-east conflict :-D

John M.

18Dec12

The time that remains is better than the hobbit. It's an escape from this shit in my country, a reminder that the rest of the world is faces challenges and everyday life.

Kitty

19Nov11

Images from Chronicle of a Disappearance still linger. In that film, and this one, he superbly conjures a world of stillness, beauty & absurdity. A film of gestures, with composition to rival Fassbinder’s Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant. A film imbued with a familial warmth that leaves one yearning, strangely, for the unenviable world of its characters. He's a modest troubadour. Sophisticated. Gentle. Weary.

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