Elia Suleiman
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 | Directing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.3909 |
| Birthday | 1960-07-28 |
| Place of Birth | Nazareth, Israel |
| Also Known As | 엘리아 술레이만, إيليا سليمان, אליה סולימאן, エリア・スレイマン, Elya Süleyman, 伊利亞·蘇萊曼, ایلیا سلیمان, |
2002
Divine Intervention
6.7/56
Santa Claus tries to outrun a gang of knife-wielding youth. It's one of several vignettes of Palestinian life in Israel - in a neighborhood in Nazaret...
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Divine Intervention
2009
The Time That Remains
7.192/60
An examination of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 through to the present day. A semi-biographic film, in four chapters, about a family spa...
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The Time That Remains
2012
7 Days in Havana
5.6/113
A lesbian, an aspiring actor, an aspiring singer, a low-class marriage, a neighborhood community and 2 renowned directors have memorable less-than-24-...
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7 Days in Havana
2006
Bamako
7/42
Caught in the stranglehold of debt and structural adjustment, Africa is fighting for its survival. In the face of disaster, representatives of African...
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Bamako
2013
Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me
6.4/5
Khalo Matabane spent two years making the film, interviewing those who knew and loved Mandela, and also those who criticised him. Global thinkers, pol...
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Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me
1996
Chronicle of a Disappearance
6.6/25
Chronicle of a Disappearance unfolds in a series of seemingly unconnected cinematic tableaux, each of them focused on incidents or characters which se...
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Chronicle of a Disappearance
2012
A Special Day
6/2
At the 60th anniversary of Cannes Film Festival, 34 famous directors are followed by camera.
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A Special Day
2007
To Each His Own Cinema
6.5/153
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmak...
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To Each His Own Cinema
2019
It Must Be Heaven
6.511/176
Filmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland of Palestine.
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It Must Be Heaven
2008
Critic
7.9/19
Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 20...
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Critic
1992
Homage by Assassination
10/1
A Palestinian filmmaker is writing a script in his New York apartment during the first Gulf war. As much as he tries to shut himself off from the exte...
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Homage by Assassination
1993
The Gulf War... What Next?
9/1
The second Gulf War from 1990 to 1991 represents in the collective Arab memory a turning point in regards to the Arab nationalism’s self-perception as...
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The Gulf War... What Next?
2012
Kusturica - Balkan's Bad Boy
8/2
A film director, an actor, a musician, an organizer of festivals, a husband, a father, a grand-father, a friend, a professor... This film is an unexpe...
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Kusturica - Balkan's Bad Boy
1998
The Arab Dream
0/0
In this autobiographical film the Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman goes in search of his past and possible future in occupied Palestine. Wherever h...
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The Arab Dream
1997
War and Peace in Vesoul
10/1
In the train on the way to the Festival in Vesoul, filmmakers Amos Gitai and Elia Suleiman talk about the subjects that preoccupy them: war and peace...
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