Le temps qu'il reste

The time that remains
Director
Elia Suleiman
Country
Belgium, France, Italy, United kingdom
Year
2009
Genre
Fiction
Scriptwriters
Elia Suleiman
Cast
Saleh Bakri / Yasmine Haj / Leila Muammar / Elia Suleiman
Production
The Film
http://www.thefilm.fr

Storyline

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.

Festivals & Academy awards and others

Festival de Cannes 2009
Official Selection