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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 ...
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.
Feb 27, 2023 · 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. In a rare interview with an Israeli journalist, ‘the Palestinian Chaplin’ reflects on his career.
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 scene...
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.
Jun 20, 2021 · T he Palestinian director Elia Suleiman, known for his deadpan observational comedies and the most expressively quizzical eyebrows in the business, returns after a decade’s absence.
May 28, 2020 · We spoke with Elia Suleiman about his newest film, It Must Be Heaven, and how his nomadic existence has influenced his work.
May 13, 2019 · For over two decades, the Nazareth-born filmmaker Elia Suleiman has made movies that reflect his experience of history. For a Palestinian like Mr. Suleiman, that often means addressing the...
Elia Suleiman was born on July 28, 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.
An interview with Elia Suleiman, the contradictory talent whose ‘The Time That Remains’ is a highly personal closing to his sweeping historical Palestinian trilogy.
