The Boston Palestine Film Festival (BPFF), celebrates its fifth anniversary this autumn. The festival, co-presented with Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) will be held from October 21-30, 2011. With the Palestinian culture and politics in the news on a daily basis, this is a film festival that will enlighten and educate, as well as entertain.
The BPFF will screen “over 50 Palestine-related films by Palestinian, American, Israeli, and international filmmakers at the MFA and other venues across the city” according to a press release from the BPFF.
Five films are North American Premieres and two are USA Premieres. The festival will also feature two live music shows and “twelve esteemed invited guests are expected.”
Friday October 21, at 6:30 pm at the MFA, is the time and place for opening night film of a unique Boston film festival
The Time That Remains (2009), by Elia Suleiman will be screened on the opening night of the BPFF, with fhe film’s director, Elia Suleiman in attendance.
The Time that Remains was a 2009 Cannes Selection and is a semi-biographical black comedy film written and directed by Suleiman, starring Elia Suleiman, Saleh Bakri, Leila Mouammar, and Bilal Zidani.
This award winning film offers “an account of the creation of the state of Israel from 1948 to the present.” The film won the prestigious Black Pearl Award for Best Middle Eastern Narrative Film at the 2009 Middle East International Film Festival (MEIFF) in Abu Dhabi. It also won the Jury Grand Prize (with About Elly) at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards.
Said Variety Magazine: “Suleiman has unquestionably made his masterpiece with The Time That Remains.”
Elia Suleiman is a Palestinian film writer, director, actor, and producer. According to The New Yorker Magazine, “Suleiman’s name is often linked with that of Jacques Tati, and the comparison is just.”
For more about the 2011 Boston Palestine Film Festival, please read Part Two of this two part series
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