Director
Elia Suleiman
66 years · Nazareth, Israel · 17 films
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.
Best known for
It Must Be Heaven
2019 · E.S., Director
To Each His Own Cinema
2007 · The filmmaker (segment "Irtebak"), Director
7 Days in Havana
2012 · E.S. (segment "Diary of a Beginner"), Director
The Time That Remains
2009 · E.S., Director
On Philo
Divine Intervention
2002 · E.S., Director
On Kanopy
Bamako
2007 · Cow-boy
On MUBI
Filmography 17
It Must Be Heaven
2019 · E.S., Director
Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me
2013 · Self
On Hoopla
A Special Day
2012 · Self
7 Days in Havana
2012 · E.S. (segment "Diary of a Beginner"), Director
Kusturica - Balkan's Bad Boy
2012 · Himself
The Time That Remains
2009 · E.S., Director
On Philo
Critic
2008 · Self
To Each His Own Cinema
2007 · The filmmaker (segment "Irtebak"), Director
Bamako
2007 · Cow-boy
On MUBI
Divine Intervention
2002 · E.S., Director
On Kanopy
Cyber Palestine
2000 · Writer, Director
The Arab Dream
1998 · Himself, Director
War and Peace in Vesoul
1997 · Actor, Director
Chronicle of a Disappearance
1996 · E.S., Director
The Gulf War... What Next?
1993 · Actor, Director
Homage by Assassination
1992 · E.S., Director
Introduction to the End of an Argument
1990 · Director, Editor