The Time That Remains

Elia Suleiman, the director and the lead, brings forth the sensitive issue of the Palestinians and the Israeli clash. Inspired from his real life, with the aids of his father’s diary, Elia presents the unknown truths of the history of the nation and gradually shifts to the present day status, from his aide-memoir.

The director plays himself in the movie and the first scene of the movie will make you understand that he is not much of a speaker. Download The Time That Remains movie and see how his silences become a metaphor for the entire nation. The movie is split into four episodes, each of them narrating a different era. He reads through his father’s diary and recounts his family stories to us, explaining his father’s role in the resistance of 1948. He reads out from his mother’s letters, who had warned his family members to leave the country during the same period.

You can always buy The Time That Remains online to get a closer look towards the portrait that Eli, a Palestinian himself, establishes for being labeled as an ‘Israeli-Arab’ after becoming a minority in the country he chose to remain.