Elia Suleiman
Known for DirectingBorn 1960-07-28Nazareth, 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.
Known for
Bamako
2007 · as Cow-boy
To Each His Own Cinema
2007 · as The filmmaker (segment "Irtebak")
Divine Intervention
2002 · as E.S.
7 Days in Havana
2012 · as E.S. (segment "Diary of a Beginner")
The Time That Remains
2009 · as E.S.
It Must Be Heaven
2019 · as E.S.
A Special Day
2012 · as Self
Chronicle of a Disappearance
1996 · as E.S.
Kusturica - Balkan's Bad Boy
2012 · as Himself
Critic
2008 · as Self
Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me
2013 · as Self
The Gulf War... What Next?
1993
Homage by Assassination
1992 · as E.S.
The Arab Dream
1998 · as Himself
War and Peace in Vesoul
1997