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Daytime Film: The Turtle's Rage
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When director Pary El-Qalqili was twelve years old, her father left his family in Berlin and returned to Palestine. Years later, he turned up on the doorstep, and now lives in the basement of the family home, lonely, withdrawn and filled with rage. In this tender and sorrowful film, the two travel to meet family members spread all over the Middle East, and the filmmaker strives to understand her father. The Turtle’s Rage tells the story of a mysterious man, whose life has been molded by flight, expulsion, life in exile and the failed return to Palestine. The film is composed of a daughter’s search for answers from her father, through the murky terrain of suppressed memory. It is a torn biography affected tremendously by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 2012, 70 mins.
“In her first feature documentary, The Turtle’s Rage, Palestinian-German filmmaker Pary El-Qalqili is determined to break down the walls her estranged Palestinian father has built up over his many years in exile. Shot over the course of one year in Germany and Palestine, this tender and sorrowful film shows El-Qalqili trying to understand her father’s anger and isolation as a displaced foreigner in a land that is not his own.” (Boston Palestine Film Festival)
For an interview with the director from the Boston Palestine Film Festival, click here.
