Elia Suleiman
Born in Nazareth, Israel — Jul 28 1960
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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
Crew
To Each His Own Cinema
The filmmaker (segment "Irtebak")
It Must Be Heaven
E.S.
Critic
Self
The Time That Remains
E.S.
Bamako
Cow-boy
7 Days in Havana
E.S. (segment "Diary of a Beginner")
Kusturica - Balkan's Bad Boy
Himself
A Special Day
Self
Divine Intervention
E.S.
Chronicle of a Disappearance
E.S.
Homage by Assassination
E.S.
Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me
Self
The Gulf War... What Next?
Introduction to the End of an Argument
Directing
And Then They Burn the Sea
Crew
War and Peace in Vesoul
The Arab Dream
Himself
Cyber Palestine
Writing