Director
Elia Suleiman
July 28, 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.
Often works with
Ali Suliman
3 titles together
It Must Be Heaven, The Time That Remains, Chronicle of a Disappearance
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Lutuf Nouasser
3 titles together
The Time That Remains, Divine Intervention, Chronicle of a Disappearance
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Leonid Alexeenko
2 titles together
To Each His Own Cinema, Chronicle of a Disappearance
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Jamel Daher
2 titles together
Divine Intervention, Chronicle of a Disappearance
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Nazira Suleiman
2 titles together
Divine Intervention, Chronicle of a Disappearance
Full filmography · 12
It Must Be Heaven
as E.S. and Director and Writer
20196.5
7 Days in Havana
as E.S. (segment "Diary of a Beginner") and Director
20125.6
The Time That Remains
as E.S. and Director and Writer
20097.3
To Each His Own Cinema
as The filmmaker (segment "Irtebak") and Director
20076.5
Bamako
as Cow-boy
20077.1
Divine Intervention
as E.S. and Director and Writer
20026.6
Cyber Palestine
Writer and Director
2000
War and Peace in Vesoul
cast and Director
1997
Chronicle of a Disappearance
as E.S. and Director and Writer
19966.6
The Gulf War... What Next?
cast and Director and Writer
1993
Homage by Assassination
as E.S. and Director and Writer
1992
Introduction to the End of an Argument
Director
1990