Elia Suleiman

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.

Filmography

It Must Be Heaven

E.S.

Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me

Self

A Special Day

Self

7 Days in Havana

E.S. (segment "Diary of a Beginner")

Kusturica - Balkan's Bad Boy

Himself

The Time That Remains

E.S.

Critic

Self

To Each His Own Cinema

The filmmaker (segment "Irtebak")

Bamako

Cow-boy

Divine Intervention

E.S.

The Arab Dream

Himself

War and Peace in Vesoul

1997

Chronicle of a Disappearance

E.S.

The Gulf War... What Next?

1993

Homage by Assassination

E.S.