
Elia Suleiman
Directing
Born 1960-07-28 · 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.
Known for

Homage by Assassination
1992 · Movie

To Each His Own Cinema
2007 · Movie

War and Peace in Vesoul
1997 · Movie

Critic
2008 · Movie

Kusturica - Balkan's Bad Boy
2012 · Movie

The Gulf War... What Next?
1993 · Movie

It Must Be Heaven
2019 · Movie

The Time That Remains
2009 · Movie

Bamako
2006 · Movie

A Special Day
2012 · Movie

Divine Intervention
2002 · Movie

7 Days in Havana
2012 · Movie

Chronicle of a Disappearance
1996 · Movie

Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me
2013 · Movie

The Arab Dream
1998 · Movie