Elia Suleiman

Known for DirectingBorn 1960-07-28 (age 65)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.Read more

Movies & web series

War and Peace in Vesoul

Homage by Assassination

The Gulf War... What Next?

Kusturica - Balkan's Bad Boy

Critic

Introduction to the End of an Argument

Only Lovers Left Alive

The Time That Remains

Bamako

Cyber Palestine

Divine Intervention

It Must Be Heaven

To Each His Own Cinema

Chronicle of a Disappearance

Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me

And Then They Burn the Sea

A Special Day

7 Days in Havana

The Arab Dream