Elia Suleiman

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Elia Suleiman

Born 1960-07-28 Nazareth, Israel 15 films

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 "burlesqu…

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Filmography

15 films
Critic poster

Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observ…

Critic

★ 7.9 2008

Bamako poster

Caught in the stranglehold of debt and structural adjustment, Africa is fighting for its survival.…

Bamako

★ 7.1 2007

The Arab Dream poster

In this autobiographical film the Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman goes in search of his past an…

The Arab Dream

★ 0.0 1998