Elia Suleiman
Directing • Born 1960-07-28
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.
Filmography
14 credits
Divine Intervention
Movie • 2002
E.S.
The Time That Remains
Movie • 2009
E.S.
7 Days in Havana
Movie • 2012
E.S. (segment "Diary of a Beginner")
The Court
Movie • 2006
Cow-boy
Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me
Movie • 2013
Self
Chronicle of a Disappearance
Movie • 1996
E.S.
A Special Day
Movie • 2012
Self
To Each His Own Cinema
Movie • 2007
The filmmaker (segment "Irtebak")
It Must Be Heaven
Movie • 2019
E.S.
Critic
Movie • 2008
Self
Homage by Assassination
Movie • 1992
E.S.
The Gulf War... What Next?
Movie • 1993
Kusturica - Balkan's Bad Boy
Movie • 2012
Himself
The Arab Dream
Movie • 1998
Himself