Elia Suleiman

Born: 1960-07-28

Elia Suleiman - (Arabic: إيليا سليمان‎); born July 28, 1960 in Nazareth ; is a Palestinian film director.


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To Each His Own Cinema

as The filmmaker (segment "Irtebak")
Released: 2007-10-31

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema"...

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7 Days in Havana

as E.S. (segment "Diary of a Beginner")
Released: 2012-04-05

A young American boy is trying to break into the acting business, and goes to Cuba during a film...

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Bamako

as Cow-boy
Released: 2006-06-21

Caught in the stranglehold of debt and structural adjustment, Africa is fighting for its...

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It Must Be Heaven

as E.S.
Released: 2019-12-04

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

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The Time That Remains

as E.S.
Released: 2009-08-12

An examination of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 through to the present day. A...

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Crítico

as Self
Released: 2008-01-22

Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the...

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A Special Day

as Self
Released: 2012-05-16

At the 60th anniversary of Cannes Film Festival, 34 famous directors are followed by camera.

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Divine Intervention

as E.S.
Released: 2002-04-11

Santa Claus tries to outrun a gang of knife-wielding youth. It's one of several vignettes of...

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Chronicle of a Disappearance

as E.S.
Released: 1996-09-01

Chronicle of a Disappearance unfolds in a series of seemingly unconnected cinematic tableaux,...

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Awkward

as Director
Released: 2007-05-17

A Palestinian director (Suleiman) is uncomfortable at a film festival.

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Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me

as Self
Released: 2013-11-23

Khalo Matabane spent two years making the film, interviewing those who knew and loved Mandela,...

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Kusturica - Balkan's Bad Boy

as Himself
Released: 2012-03-01

A film director, an actor, a musician, an organizer of festivals, a husband, a father, a...

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Homage by Assassination

as E.S.
Released: 1992-01-01

A Palestinian filmmaker is writing a script in his New York apartment during the first Gulf war....

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The Gulf War... What Next?

as uncredited
Released: 1993-01-02

The second Gulf War from 1990 to 1991 represents in the collective Arab memory a turning point...

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The Arab Dream

as Himself
Released: 1998-01-01

In this autobiographical film the Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman goes in search of his past...

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