A Palestinian director and actor who began his filmmaking career in New York, Elia Suleiman is best known for Chronicle of a Disappearance (1996) and Divine Intervention (2002), a modern tragicomedy that addresses life under occupation in the Palestinian territories.

Divine Intervention won the Cannes Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize. With a style that has been compared to both Jacques Tati and Buster Keaton, Suleiman manages to find moments in levity in the most sobering of situations. The Time That Remains is his first feature film in seven years.

Director of The Time That Remains