Elia Suleiman
Known for directing · Born 28 July 1960 · 66 · Nazareth, Israel
29 credits
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.
Known for
It Must Be Heaven
2019
To Each His Own Cinema
2007
7 Days in Havana
2012
The Time That Remains
2009
Divine Intervention
2002
Chronicle of a Disappearance
1996
Introduction to the End of an Argument
1990
Critic
2008
Cyber Palestine
2000
War and Peace in Vesoul
1997
The Gulf War... What Next?
1993
Homage by Assassination
1992