France

Synopsis

THE TIME THAT REMAINS is a semi-biographic film divided in four historic episodes, about a family, spanning from 1948 until recent times. The film is inspired of Elia Suleiman’s father’s diary of his personal accounts, starting from when he was a resistant fighter in 1948 and his mother’s letters written to family members who were forced to leave the country since then. The film attempts to portray the daily life of those Palestinians who remained in their land and were labelled “Israeli-Arabs” living as a minority in their own homeland.
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Cast & Crew

Directed by: Elia Suleiman

Written by: Elia Suleiman

Produced by: Michael Gentile, Elia Suleiman

Cinematography: Marc-André Batigne

Cast: Saleh Bakri (Fuad), Leila Muammar (Thuraya), Elia Suleiman (Elia)

Nominations and Awards

  • Feature Film Selection 2009