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.
Filmography
It Must Be Heaven
2019
as E.S.
Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me
2013
as Self
A Special Day
2012
as Self
7 Days in Havana
2012
as E.S. (segment "Diary of a Beginner")
Kusturica - Balkan's Bad Boy
2012
as Himself
The Time That Remains
2009
as E.S.
Critic
2008
as Self
To Each His Own Cinema
2007
as The filmmaker (segment "Irtebak")
Bamako
2007
as Cow-boy
Divine Intervention
2002
as E.S.
The Arab Dream
1998
as Himself
War and Peace in Vesoul
1997
Chronicle of a Disappearance
1996
as E.S.
The Gulf War... What Next?
1993
Homage by Assassination
1992
as E.S.