Elia Suleiman
Directing
Born July 28, 1960 in 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.
Filmography
And Then They Burn the Sea
It Must Be Heaven
E.S.
Only Lovers Left Alive
Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me
Self
A Special Day
Self
7 Days in Havana
E.S. (segment "Diary of a Beginner")
Kusturica - Balkan's Bad Boy
Himself
The Time That Remains
E.S.
Critic
Self
To Each His Own Cinema
The filmmaker (segment "Irtebak")
Bamako
Cow-boy
Divine Intervention
E.S.
Cyber Palestine
The Arab Dream
Himself
War and Peace in Vesoul
Chronicle of a Disappearance
E.S.
The Gulf War... What Next?
Homage by Assassination
E.S.
Introduction to the End of an Argument