Elia Suleiman

Biography

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.

Directed

1. It Must Be Heaven (2019) — Director
2. To Each His Own Cinema (2007) — Director
3. 7 Days in Havana (2012) — Director
4. The Time That Remains (2009) — Director
5. Divine Intervention (2002) — Director
6. Chronicle of a Disappearance (1996) — Director
7. Introduction to the End of an Argument (1990) — Director
8. The Gulf War... What Next? (1993) — Director
9. Cyber Palestine (2000) — Director
10. War and Peace in Vesoul (1997) — Director
11. Homage by Assassination (1992) — Director
12. The Arab Dream (1998) — Director

Also appeared in

1. It Must Be Heaven (2019) — E.S.
2. To Each His Own Cinema (2007) — The filmmaker (segment "Irtebak")
3. 7 Days in Havana (2012) — E.S. (segment "Diary of a Beginner")
4. The Time That Remains (2009) — E.S.
5. Divine Intervention (2002) — E.S.
6. Bamako (2007) — Cow-boy
7. Chronicle of a Disappearance (1996) — E.S.
8. Critic (2008) — Self
9. Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me (2013) — Self
10. A Special Day (2012) — Self
11. Kusturica - Balkan's Bad Boy (2012) — Himself
12. Homage by Assassination (1992) — E.S.
13. The Gulf War... What Next? (1993)
14. War and Peace in Vesoul (1997)
15. The Arab Dream (1998) — Himself