Love and Family in Palestinian Cinema screening: 'The Time That Remains'

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The Time That Remains (dir. Elia Suleiman, 2009)

Our final film in the series, The Time That Remains, is a semiautobiographical satire that tells a story of a Palestinian family from 1948 to the early 2000s. Like its predecessor in Suleiman's oeuvre, the film uses absurd humor to depict the daily triumphs and humiliations of Palestinians living under Israeli occupation. More focused than the vignette-based narratives of Divine Intervention and Chronicle of a Disappearance, the film plays out in four episodes: Nazareth's surrender to Israel in 1948; the death of pan-Arab leader Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1970; the fourth Land Day, an annual protest of Israeli land expropriation, in 1980; and a more fantastical sequence of events in the aftermath of the Second Intifada (2000-2005).

Though The Time that Remains is the third in Elia Suleiman's celebrated "Palestine trilogy," it's a great standalone film—you don't need to have seen the first two to enjoy this one!

This screening is part of the Love and Family in Palestinian Cinema series hosted by the JHU Global South Humanities Initiative. The film will be introduced by GSHI postdoc Alessandra Amin, a historian of Palestinian art.