Personal Info
엘리아 술레이만
إيليا سليمان
אליה סולימאן
エリア・スレイマン
Elya Süleyman
Elia Suleiman
Directing
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.
Known For
Filmography
Movies
It Must Be Heaven
as E.S.
Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me
as Self
A Special Day
as Self
7 Days in Havana
as E.S. (segment "Diary of a Beginner")
Kusturica - Balkan's Bad Boy
as Himself
The Time That Remains
as E.S.
Critic
as Self
To Each His Own Cinema
as The filmmaker (segment "Irtebak")
Bamako
as Cow-boy
Divine Intervention
as E.S.