Carsey-Wolf Center at UC Santa Barbara 
Dreaming Palestine: The Time That Remains
- Wednesday, February 18, 2015 / 7:00 PM (PST)
- Pollock Theater
- Screening Format: Blu-Ray (109 Minutes)
- With Steven Salaita (Associate Professor of English, Virginia Tech) and Sherene Seikaly (Assistant Professor of History, UCSB)
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Director: Elia Suleiman
Starring: Saleh Bakri, Ali Suliman, Samar Tanus
Winner of the Jury Grand Prize at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, and nominated for a Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, writer-director Elia Suleiman’s The Time That Remains (2009) is an intimate semi-biographical portrait of Palestinians living as a minority in their own homeland between 1948 and the present day. 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 recounts the saga of the filmmaker’s family in subtly hilarious vignettes.
We were joined for a post-screening discussion with Steven Salaita (former Associate Professor of English at Virginia Tech) and Sherene Seikaly (UCSB Assistant Professor in History), moderated by Maryam Griffin (UCSB doctoral candidate in Sociology).
This event is sponsored by the Carsey-Wolf Center, the Mellichamp Global Studies Initiative, the Center for Middle East Studies, the Department of Film & Media Studies, the Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies, and the Department of the History of Art & Architecture.
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