Directing
Elia Suleiman
Directing · Born 1960-07-28 · Nazareth, Israel
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.
Credits · 18
FilmAnd Then They Burn the Sea
2021 · Thanks
FilmIt Must Be Heaven
2019 · E.S.
FilmOnly Lovers Left Alive
2013 · Thanks
FilmNelson Mandela: The Myth and Me
2013 · Self
FilmA Special Day
2012 · Self
Film7 Days in Havana
2012 · E.S. (segment "Diary of a Beginner")
FilmKusturica - Balkan's Bad Boy
2012 · Himself
FilmThe Time That Remains
2009 · E.S.
FilmCritic
2008 · Self
FilmTo Each His Own Cinema
2007 · The filmmaker (segment "Irtebak")
FilmBamako
2007 · Cow-boy
FilmDivine Intervention
2002 · E.S.
FilmCyber Palestine
2000 · Writer
FilmWar and Peace in Vesoul
1997 · Director
FilmChronicle of a Disappearance
1996 · E.S.
FilmThe Gulf War... What Next?
1993 · Director
FilmHomage by Assassination
1992 · E.S.
FilmIntroduction to the End of an Argument
1990 · Director