Elia Suleiman
Birthday: 1960-07-28
Place of Birth: Nazareth, Israel
Biography: Elia Suleiman (Arabic: إيليا سليمان, IPA: [ˈʔiːlja sʊleːˈmaːn]; born 28 July 1960; Nazareth) is a Palestinian film director and actor. He is best known for the 2002 film Divine Intervention (Arabic: يد إلهية), a modern tragicomedy on living under occupation in Palestine which won the Jury Prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. Suleiman's cinematic style is often compared to that of Jacques Tati and Buster Keaton, for its poetic interplay between "burlesque and sobriety". He is married to Lebanese singer and actress Yasmine Hamdan.
Movies
Divine Intervention
Santa Claus tries to outrun a gang of knife-wielding youth. It's one of several vignettes of Palesti...
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The Time That Remains
An examination of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 through to the present day. A semi-bio...
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7 Days in Havana
A lesbian, an aspiring actor, an aspiring singer, a low-class marriage, a neighborhood community and...
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Bamako
Caught in the stranglehold of debt and structural adjustment, Africa is fighting for its survival. I...
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Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me
Khalo Matabane spent two years making the film, interviewing those who knew and loved Mandela, and a...
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Chronicle of a Disappearance
Chronicle of a Disappearance unfolds in a series of seemingly unconnected cinematic tableaux, each o...
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A Special Day
At the 60th anniversary of Cannes Film Festival, 34 famous directors are followed by camera....
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To Each His Own Cinema
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brou...
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It Must Be Heaven
Filmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland o...
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Critic
Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observe...
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Homage by Assassination
A Palestinian filmmaker is writing a script in his New York apartment during the first Gulf war. As ...
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The Gulf War... What Next?
The second Gulf War from 1990 to 1991 represents in the collective Arab memory a turning point in re...
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Kusturica - Balkan's Bad Boy
A film director, an actor, a musician, an organizer of festivals, a husband, a father, a grand-fathe...
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The Arab Dream
In this autobiographical film the Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman goes in search of his past and...
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