\u00bbWhen I was 12 years old, my father left us to return to Palestine. His dream to build a house and pursue the fight for freedom in Palestine failed. He was expelled by the Israelis. Suddenly he was back in Berlin, ringing at our front door. My mother looked at him, did not say a word and let him in. Now he spends his days sitting in the cellar of our small row house. Withdrawn in his turtle shell. My mother lives upstairs. They are not fighting anymore. They try not to cross each other\u2019s path. Not a sound is to be heard. Only the creaking steps of my mother on the stairs. The whirr of the television. And my nagging questions to my father.\u00ab
\n\u2013 Pary El-Qalqili<\/p>\n
With her camera the daughter approaches her father in the Berlin cellar where he is frittering his existence away. Together they travel across Egypt, Palestine and Jordan: an argument at the airport, singing with taxi drivers, lonely nights in hotels, wranglings at remote petrol stations. Drinking a beer in the Naqab desert: in The Turtle\u2019s Rage<\/strong>, Pary El-Qalqili tells the story of her father, whose life is marked by flight, expulsion, a life in exile and the failed return to Palestine. Whose biography is disrupted by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and whose daughter is searching for answers that often he himself cannot give her.<\/p>\n Pary El-Qalqili is certainly representative here of a young generation of Arab filmmakers or those of Arab origin who are trying to make some sense of the revolutionary past, which for their parents has become synonymous with broken promises, failure and pain. El-Qalqili presents the story of her father with many nuances, making it impossible to think along the lines of victim and perpetrator, good and evil, black and white.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","movie_year":[304],"movie_genre":[85],"movie_cat":[363],"festival":[628],"class_list":["post-20066","movie","type-movie","status-publish","hentry","movie_year-304","movie_genre-documentary-en","movie_cat-focus-en-2012","festival-2012-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n