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<div><span style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva;color:#fc3e00;font-size:12pt"><strong>ELIA SULEIMAN COMES TO BPFF FOR BLOCKBUSTER WEEKEND</strong></span></div>
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<span style="text-decoration:underline;color:#00cccc;font-size:10pt"><strong><a style="color:rgb(0, 204, 204);font-family:Verdana, Geneva;text-decoration:underline" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=k89odgcab&et=1107973985830&s=1298&e=001YAnEdtDWIMzmIhZgqlOd4mrm1Nl4awMkNH0Ph-YCfSLk2WKvLPZkXcyubXFE6MryesKQgkdRbuJk_-iWxr9gac7EOULbcAL6g1ChTnljDK7MN36T35jrkieEgq95UXdKUHRqaeicnWHv76XOwdviMxGYJffmXfjr" shape="rect" target="_blank">Elia Suleiman</a></strong></span><span style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva;font-size:10pt"> <span style="color:#333333">is a highly celebrated film writer, director, actor, and producer. According to <i>The New Yorker</i> Magazine, </span><em><span style="color:#333333">"Suleiman's name is often linked with that of [filmmaking genius]</span> <a style="font-family:Verdana, Geneva;color:rgb(0, 204, 204);text-decoration:underline" shape="rect" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=k89odgcab&et=1107973985830&s=1298&e=001YAnEdtDWIMxBReuHHnv85zdhCRbCNb_ezxJK_7vokRHafCiQtiSNiWTvItV-uMsRlw9pX6P4P_T5yso5JQcamLHCi11g4xxhBNIPZnWT2FbNTm2orfgE2KoONbcC5l9H" target="_blank">Jacques Tati,</a><span style="color:#333333"> and the comparison is just."</span></em></span></p>






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<span style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva;font-size:10pt"><span style="color:black">Suleiman is best known for his 2002 film</span> <span style="color:#fc3e00"><strong><i>Divine Intervention (2002),</i></strong></span> <span style="color:#333333">a modern tragic comedy on living under occupation in the Palestinian  territories, which won the Jury Prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival </span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#333333">and the International Critics Prize (FIPRESCI); also receiving the Best Foreign Film Prize at the European Awards in Rome. </span><span style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#333333"><i>Divine Intervention,</i></span><span style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva;font-size:10pt"><span style="color:#333333"> as well as his earlier work</span> <span style="color:#fc3e00"><strong><i>Chronicle of a Disappearance (1996),</i> </strong></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#333333">which won the Best First Film Prize at the 1996 Venice Film Festival, are </span><span style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva;font-size:10pt"><span style="color:#333333">part of a trilogy together with</span> <span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="color:#fc3e00"><strong><i>The Time That Remains (2009), </i></strong></span><span style="color:#000000">t<span style="color:#333333">his year's <strong>Opening Night film. </strong></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,Geneva"> </span></p>






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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,Geneva"><span style="color:#fc3e00"><strong><i>The Time That Remains</i></strong></span><span style="color:#333333">, a 2009 Cannes Selection, is a semi-biographical black comedy film written and directed by Suleiman, starring Elia Suleiman, Saleh Bakri, Leila Mouammar, and Bilal Zidani. It offers an account of the creation of the Israeli state 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 <i>About Elly</i>) at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards.</span></span></p>






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<p style="font-family:Cambria;color:black;text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0pt;font-size:12pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,Geneva;color:#333333">According to <i>Variety</i> Magazine: <em>"Suleiman has unquestionably made his masterpiece with </em>The Time That Remains."</span></p>






<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"> </p><p style="font-family:Cambria;color:black;text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0pt;font-size:12pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#333333"><strong>All  three works will all be shown at separate screenings at the MFA</strong> during our Blockbuster Opening Weekend, October 21-23, 2011, all followed by discussion with Suleiman, offering <span style="text-decoration:underline"><b>a rare opportunity for engagement with an iconic Palestinian filmmaker about a major body of his work.</b></span></span></p>






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<p style="font-family:Cambria;color:black;text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0pt;font-size:12pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:30px"><span style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva;font-size:9pt;color:#333333">Subtitled <em>Chronicle of a Present Absentee,</em> this humorous, heartbreaking film is set shot largely in homes and places in which Suleiman's family, who are Palestinian citizens of Israel, once lived. Inspired by his father's diaries, letters his mother sent to family members who had fled the Israeli occupation, and the director's own recollections, the film spans from 1948 until the present, recounting the saga of Suleiman's family in four elegantly stylized episodes. Suleiman himself plays a silent, impassive observer. </span></p>






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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"> </p><p style="font-family:Cambria;color:black;text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0pt;font-size:12pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:30px"><span style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva;font-size:11pt;color:#000000"><strong><img style="text-align:right" height="105" vspace="5" border="0" name="1330059d9424e14e_1330059270f934c0_1330058359ad0620_1330057eb8c872b1_13300521741c54b6_133004f27029e8be_132db20cba0d53a4_ACCOUNT.IMAGE.132" width="207" alt="Divine Intervention Balloon" src="http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs061/1101864069994/img/132.jpg" align="right"></strong></span><span style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:9pt">Packed with witty visual gags, comic vignettes, and moments of spectacular fantasy, the award-winning <i style="color:#333333">Divine Intervention</i><span style="color:#333333"> (subtitled </span><i style="color:#333333">A Chronicle of Love and Pain</i></span><span style="color:#333333;font-size:12px"><span style="font-size:9pt">) is a portrait of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict laced with wicked and subversive humor. Suleiman again plays the central character himself: "E.S." cares for his ailing father in Jerusalem whilst conducting an affair with a Palestinian woman in Ramallah. Recalling the comic genius of Jacques Tati and deadpan delivery of Buster Ke</span>aton, Suleiman's film is a passionate and surreal depiction of the situation in Palestine. </span></span></p>






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<div><span style="font-size:12pt;color:#fc3e00"><strong>THEMES OF THIS YEAR'S FILM FESTIVAL</strong></span><br></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#333333"><strong>The Work of Elia Suleiman</strong></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#333333"><strong>Celebrating the Legacy of Edward Said</strong></span></div></span><span><span><img height="78" vspace="5" name="1330059d9424e14e_1330059270f934c0_1330058359ad0620_1330057eb8c872b1_13300521741c54b6_133004f27029e8be_132db20cba0d53a4_ACCOUNT.IMAGE.137" border="0" hspace="5" width="140" alt="Edward Said Knowledge is the Beginning" src="http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs061/1101864069994/img/137.jpg"></span><br>






<br><div><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#333333"><strong>Homage to Past and Present Revolutions</strong></span></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#333333"><strong>In Honor of the Arab Spring</strong></span></div>






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</div></div></div><br></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div>Salma Abu Ayyash</div><div>Curator - Boston Palestine Film Festival</div><div><a href="mailto:salma@bostonpalestinefilmfest.org" target="_blank">salma@bostonpalestinefilmfest.org</a></div>
<div><a href="http://www.bostonpalestinefilmfest.org" target="_blank">http://www.bostonpalestinefilmfest.org</a></div><div>+1.617.642.9640</div><div>Address: </div><div>Boston Palestine Film Festival</div><div>955 Massachusetts Ave. #333</div>
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