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Elia Suleiman
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Film & TV
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 won the Jury Prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. Suleiman's cinematic style is often compared to that of Jacques Tati…
Known for
- It Must Be Heaven — E.S.2019
- Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me — Self2013
- 7 Days in Havana — E.S. (segment "Diary of a Beginner")2012
- A Special Day — Self2012
- Kusturica - Balkan's Bad Boy — Himself2012
- The Time That Remains — E.S.2009
- Critic — Self2008
- Bamako — Cow-boy2007
- To Each His Own Cinema — The filmmaker (segment "Irtebak")2007
- Divine Intervention — E.S.2002
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Elia
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Israel
- Place of birth
- Nazareth
- Spouse
- Yasmine Hamdan
- Occupation
- director
- Educated at
- Birzeit University
- Employer
- European Graduate School
- Languages spoken
- Arabic
- Participant in
- documenta x
- Image
- Počasno Srce Sarajeva Elia Suleiman (Cropped).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1960-07-28
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Elia Suleiman
- start of work period
- 1990-00-00
- nominated for
- European Film Award for Best Non-European Film
- described at URL
- vtape.org/artist?ai=1448
- Commons category
- Elia Suleiman
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