Elia Suleiman

Biography

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

To Each His Own Cinema

It Must Be Heaven

The Time That Remains

7 Days in Havana

A Special Day

Kusturica - Balkan's Bad Boy

Divine Intervention

Critic

All Movies (15)

• It Must Be Heaven2019 · as E.S.
• Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me2013 · as Self
• A Special Day2012 · as Self
• 7 Days in Havana2012 · as E.S. (segment "Diary of a Beginner")
• Kusturica - Balkan's Bad Boy2012 · as Himself
• The Time That Remains2009 · as E.S.
• Critic2008 · as Self
• To Each His Own Cinema2007 · as The filmmaker (segment "Irtebak")
• Bamako2007 · as Cow-boy
• Divine Intervention2002 · as E.S.
• The Arab Dream1998 · as Himself
• War and Peace in Vesoul1997
• Chronicle of a Disappearance1996 · as E.S.
• The Gulf War... What Next?1993
• Homage by Assassination1992 · as E.S.