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Elia Suleiman (Arabic: إيليا سليمان, IPA: [ˈʔiːlja sʊleːˈmaːn]; born 28 July 1960) is a Palestinian film director and actor. [1] [2] 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 ...
Elia Suleiman was born on 28 July 1960 in Nazareth, Israel. He is a director and writer, known for Divine Intervention (2002), It Must Be Heaven (2019) and The Time That Remains (2009). He is married to Yasmine Hamdan.
Mar 28, 2024 · I’m starting with this essay about Elia Suleiman’s marvellous Palestine trilogy of films. ” – Jim Poe. I first saw Elia Suleiman’s The Time That Remains, the concluding film in his autobiographical Palestine trilogy, when I was working at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival in 2011.
Jun 15, 2021 · “Palestinisation is everywhere”: Elia Suleiman on It Must Be Heaven. The deadpan tragi-comedian talks about his new film It Must Be Heaven, the violence and trauma that has followed him from Palestine to Paris, and why he finds hope in his younger post-national compatriots.
Feb 27, 2023 · Why Elia Suleiman Doesn’t Want to Be Called the Leading Palestinian Filmmaker. The award-winning director lives in Paris, but comes back regularly to visit his family in Nazareth and to make movies here – though it’s not due to any love for the land of his birth.
Jun 10, 2021 · Film-maker Elia Suleiman on ‘the Palestinianisation of the globe’. The writer-director’s latest is set partially in Nazareth but is about ‘tension rising everywhere’, not just in Palestine. A...
May 28, 2020 · In It Must Be Heaven, master filmmaker Elia Suleiman toys with the expat’s idea of home. When I first meet Suleiman on a clear fall day in the lobby of Toronto’s Ritz-Carlton hotel, he’s already two coffees-deep, reclining sheepishly in his signature straw hat.
