DOHA: Doha Film Institute (DFI) will screen three movies of filmmaker Elia Suleiman on February 20 and 21 at Museum of Islamic Art auditorium.
The showcase will highlight the career of the celebrated director and actor who is also DFI’s Artistic Adviser.
Suleiman will engage with audience after the screenings to answer questions and discuss his filmmaking process. He will also conduct a private master class over the weekend with local students associated with DFI’s education and development programmes.
The screenings will open with Suleiman’s first feature film Chronicle of a Disappearance (1996) which won the Best First Film prize at the Venice Film Festival. The second in the series is Divine Intervention (2002), Suleiman’s second feature which solidified his status as an icon of contemporary filmmaking, winning the Jury Prize and the International Film Critics Prize at the Festival de Cannes and the Best Foreign Film Prize at the European Awards in Rome. It was also Palestine’s submission to the Academy Awards in 2003.
The third film is The Time That Remains (2009) selected for Official Competition at the Festival de Cannes and won the Black Pearl Award for Best Middle Eastern Narrative Film at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival and the Jury Grand Prize at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards.
The showcase is in the lead up to the inaugural edition of Qumra, DFI’s new event for the mentorship and development of emerging filmmakers, on March 6-11.
The Peninsula
