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Elia Suleiman
Writer 66 years old

Elia Suleiman

Nazareth, Israel

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... Read full bio →

Filmography

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It Must Be Heaven

It Must Be Heaven

Elia Suleiman 2019 1h 43m 6.3

Filmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland of Palestine.

The Time that Remains

The Time that Remains

Elia Suleiman 2009 1h 49m

An examination of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 through to the present day. A semi-biographic film, in four chapters, about a family spanning from 1948 until recent times.

Yadon ilaheyya

Yadon ilaheyya

Elia Suleiman 2002 1h 32m 8.0

Santa Claus tries to outrun a gang of knife-wielding youth. It's one of several vignettes of Palestinian life in Israel - in a neighborhood in Nazareth and at Al-Ram checkpoint in East Jerusalem. Most of the stories are droll, some absurd, one is mythic and fanciful; few words are spoken.

Segell ikhtifa

Segell ikhtifa

Elia Suleiman 1996 1h 28m

Chronicle of a Disappearance unfolds in a series of seemingly unconnected cinematic tableaux, each of them focused on incidents or characters which seldom reappear later in the film.

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