Elia Suleiman

DirectingBorn: July 28, 1960in 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.

Elia Suleiman

It Must Be Heaven

Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me

A Special Day

7 Days in Havana

Kusturica - Balkan's Bad Boy

The Time That Remains

Critic

To Each His Own Cinema

Bamako

Divine Intervention

The Arab Dream

War and Peace in Vesoul

Chronicle of a Disappearance

The Gulf War... What Next?

Homage by Assassination