watch elia suleiman film divine intervention

I can say that it’s a warning sign about a certain feel of the experience that we, whoever we are, might be living.

I cannot say that the time is running out - I don’t have authority over time. How would you explain the title time is running out for what?Įlia Suleiman: I would say that the title is a warning sign. Sabah Haider: The title of your new film is The Time That Remains. The Electronic Intifada contributor Sabah Haider interviewed Elia Suleiman and discussed a broad range of topics from his new film to the human experience and the quest for justice in this world. The Time That Remains broke the French box office’s top ten list last summer and has garnered much acclaim on the festival circuit. Suleiman’s latest film, The Time That Remains (2009), which premiered at the last Cannes Film Festival, marks the end of what has been described as his “Palestinian film trilogy,” beginning with Chronicle of a Disappearance (1996) the much-acclaimed Divine Intervention (2002) which was Palestine’s official submission to the Academy Awards that year (but denied entry because “Palestine is not a country” - although the following year the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences reneged and accepted it as a submission from the “Palestinian Authority”) and concluding with The Time That Remains.

Nazareth-born filmmaker Elia Suleiman is one of the darlings of Cannes and stands out from the pack of contemporary Palestinian filmmakers for his unique style of filmmaking based on sewing together a series vignettes, silence - an emphasis on visual storytelling versus dialogue, and deadpan comedy found in often grim humor in the lives of everyday people living under the tyranny of what he calls a “pathetic occupation.” Sabah Haider The Electronic Intifada 1 February 2010

Watch elia suleiman film divine intervention