Elia Suleiman
Known for: Directing
Born: July 28, 1960
Place of birth: 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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Filmography
19 movies · 0 TV shows, newest first
6.0
And Then They Burn the Sea
2021
6.5
It Must Be Heaven
2019
7.2
Only Lovers Left Alive
2013
6.4
Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me
2013
5.3
A Special Day
2012
5.6
7 Days in Havana
2012
8.0
Kusturica - Balkan's Bad Boy
2012
7.2
The Time That Remains
2009
7.9
Critic
2008
6.4
To Each His Own Cinema
2007
7.1
Bamako
2007
6.6
Divine Intervention
2002
7.0
Cyber Palestine
2000
NR
The Arab Dream
1998
10.0
War and Peace in Vesoul
1997
6.6
Chronicle of a Disappearance
1996
9.0
The Gulf War... What Next?
1993
10.0
Homage by Assassination
1992
7.8
Introduction to the End of an Argument
1990