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FESTIVAL FILM PROGRAM

BPFF 2011: 10 Unforgettable Days of Palestine-Related Films and Events

Full Schedule

HIGHLIGHTS

Opening Film

The Time That Remains, the latest film by Elia Suleiman, is a semi-autobiographical tale about his family from 1948 to the present.

Chronicle of a Disappearance (Winner, Best First Film Prize, Venice Film Festival, 1996) and Divine Intervention (Winner, Jury Prize, Cannes Film Festival an Best Foreign Film Prize, European Awards, Rome) are also on the program.

Suleiman has unquestionably made his masterpiece with The Time That Remains.

--Variety Magazine

This film blew me away, visually and emotionally and engaged me intellectually….The Time That Remains is…as close to flawless as a film can be.

-- Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada

Elia Suleiman: His name is often linked with that of Jacques Tati, and the comparison is just.

--The New Yorker

Winner, Black Pearl Award for Best Middle Eastern Narrative Film (2009)

Variety’s annual Middle Eastern film-maker of the year, 2009

Winner, 2008 Claus Award Winner, 2008 Claus Award

Opening Night Reception

Featuring Shusmo, with their unique mélange of alternative Arabic music, as well as buffet, bar, and stimulating company!

Special Program – Berklee College of Music

The Gift of a Music Education

Celebrating the Legacy of Edward Said

Includes: the film Knowledge is the Beginning about the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra founded by Edward Said and Daniel Barenboim; a reception; and a program of musical tributes to Berklee College, which carries on Said’s legacy of facilitating music education, by Palestinian and Arab Berklee students whose lives have been enriched by receiving this gift.

Featured Film

The Imperialists are Still Alive!, by emerging talent, Palestinian-American Zeina Durra, a film that Filmmaker Magazine called “an unabashedly assured debut from a first-time filmaker unafraid to throw a punch.”

I urge you to watch The Imperialists Are Still Alive! because its images and themes will remain in your heart and mind for weeks to come.

--E. Nina Rothe, The Huffington Post

Zeina Durra: Sundance’s most fascinating filmmaker

--Movieline

Featured Film

Love During Wartime, by Gabriella Bier, a cinema vérité tale of a real marriage between an Israeli Jewish woman and a Palestinian man from Ramallah, which The Atlantic called “a heartbreaking and unusually intimate account of a relationship impeded by geopolitics.”

Closing Film

Man Without a Cell Phone, a humorous and moving feature debut by Palestinian director Sameh Zoabi, which was shown last March at the New Directors/New Films festival, presented jointly by The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) and The Film Society of Lincoln Center.

Sameh Zoabi: …one of the Top 25 New Faces of Independent Cinema

--Filmmaker Magazine

Sameh Zoabi’s perceptive feature debut offers a window into a section of Palestinian society rarely seen on screen: Israeli citizens whose daily lives appear removed from the ongoing struggle, yet who often feel they are second-class citizens.

--Indiewire