Known for

Directing

Born

Jul 28, 1960 (66 years old)

Place of birth

Nazareth, Israel

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.

Titles

Only Lovers Left Alive

Movie • 2013

Bamako

Movie • 2007

It Must Be Heaven

Movie • 2019

To Each His Own Cinema

Movie • 2007

The Time That Remains

Movie • 2009

Chronicle of a Disappearance

Movie • 1996

7 Days in Havana

Movie • 2012

Divine Intervention

Movie • 2002

Critic

Movie • 2008

Homage by Assassination

Movie • 1992

Cyber Palestine

Movie • 2000

Introduction to the End of an Argument

Movie • 1990