The common denominator in his films, including Divine Intervention (2002), which received the Jury Award at the Cannes Film Festival, is the Palestine conflict. Many of the scenes in The Time that Remains combine resignation and resolve, hope and despair, gentleness and rigidity. Although he has often been compared to Jacques Tati and Buster Keaton, his films also manifest a sense of sadness, isolation, and alienation, fused with the evident absurdist comedy.
Suleiman is mostly known for his highly controlled, stylized and humorous scenes, almost always of a deadpan nature. The film, semi-autobiographical, is in part based on his father Fuad’s diaries and stretches from 1948 into the present time. The first film to be screened was The Time that Remains (2009) by Palestinian director Elia Suleiman, who was flown in from Paris to attend the event. The goal of the organizers of the project is to present Palestinians in a different light than what is often portrayed in the mainstream media.
P alestinian Film Days, the first of its kind here in Czech Republic, started Thursday in Prague.
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