Director
Elia Suleiman
Born 1960 · 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.
Directed
It Must Be Heaven
Director · 2019
To Each His Own Cinema
Director · 2007
The Time That Remains
Director · 2009
Divine Intervention
Director · 2002
7 Days in Havana
Director · 2012
War and Peace in Vesoul
Director · 1997
Homage by Assassination
Director · 1992
Chronicle of a Disappearance
Director · 1996
The Gulf War... What Next?
Director · 1993
Introduction to the End of an Argument
Director · 1990
Cyber Palestine
Director · 2000
The Arab Dream
Director · 1998
Acting
It Must Be Heaven
E.S. · 2019
To Each His Own Cinema
The filmmaker (segment "Irtebak") · 2007
The Time That Remains
E.S. · 2009
Divine Intervention
E.S. · 2002
Bamako
Cow-boy · 2007
7 Days in Havana
E.S. (segment "Diary of a Beginner") · 2012
Critic
Self · 2008
Homage by Assassination
E.S. · 1992
Chronicle of a Disappearance
E.S. · 1996
Kusturica - Balkan's Bad Boy
Himself · 2012
Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me
Self · 2013
A Special Day
Self · 2012
The Arab Dream
Himself · 1998