Elia Suleiman
Directing
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
It Must Be Heaven
E.S.
To Each His Own Cinema
The filmmaker (segment "Irtebak")
Critic
Self
The Time That Remains
E.S.
Kusturica - Balkan's Bad Boy
Himself
A Special Day
Self
7 Days in Havana
E.S. (segment "Diary of a Beginner")
The Court
Cow-boy
Divine Intervention
E.S.
Chronicle of a Disappearance
E.S.
Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me
Self
Homage by Assassination
E.S.