Person

Elia Suleiman

Directing · Born 1960-07-28 · 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.

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  Only Lovers Left Alive

  Thanks

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  Divine Intervention

  E.S.

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  Bamako

  Cow-boy

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  A Special Day

  Self

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  It Must Be Heaven

  E.S.

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  The Time That Remains

  E.S.

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  7 Days in Havana

  E.S. (segment "Diary of a Beginner")

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  To Each His Own Cinema

  The filmmaker (segment "Irtebak")

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  Cyber Palestine

  Writer

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  Critic

  Self

• 2021And Then They Burn the SeaThanks
• 2019It Must Be HeavenE.S.
• 2013Only Lovers Left AliveThanks
• 2013Nelson Mandela: The Myth and MeSelf
• 2012A Special DaySelf
• 20127 Days in HavanaE.S. (segment "Diary of a Beginner")
• 2012Kusturica - Balkan's Bad BoyHimself
• 2009The Time That RemainsE.S.
• 2008CriticSelf
• 2007To Each His Own CinemaThe filmmaker (segment "Irtebak")
• 2007BamakoCow-boy
• 2002Divine InterventionE.S.
• 2000Cyber PalestineWriter
• 1998The Arab DreamHimself
• 1997War and Peace in Vesoul
• 1996Chronicle of a DisappearanceE.S.
• 1993The Gulf War... What Next?
• 1992Homage by AssassinationE.S.
• 1990Introduction to the End of an ArgumentDirector