Elia Suleiman

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

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To Each His Own Cinema Trailer (2007)

31 October 2007

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.

A Special Day Trailer (2012)

16 May 2012

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

Only Lovers Left Alive Trailer (2013)

12 December 2013

A depressed musician reunites with his lover. However, their romance, already played over several centuries, is disrupted by the arrival of her uncontrollable younger sister.

The Gulf War... What Next? Trailer (1993)

02 January 1993

The second Gulf War from 1990 to 1991 represents in the collective Arab memory a turning point in regards to the Arab nationalism’s self-perception as well as a moment of deep historical and existential insecurity.

Bamako Trailer (2007)

23 February 2007

Caught in the stranglehold of debt and structural adjustment, Africa is fighting for its survival. In the face of disaster, representatives of African society bring an action against international financial institutions.

Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me Trailer (2013)

23 November 2013

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

The Time That Remains Trailer (2009)

12 August 2009

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.

Critic Trailer (2008)

22 January 2008

Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic.

7 Days in Havana Trailer (2012)

05 April 2012

A lesbian, an aspiring actor, an aspiring singer, a low-class marriage, a neighborhood community and 2 renowned directors have memorable less-than-24-hour-long experiences while living in/visiting the capital of Cuba.

It Must Be Heaven Trailer (2019)

04 December 2019

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

Chronicle of a Disappearance Trailer (1996)

01 September 1996

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.

Divine Intervention Trailer (2002)

02 October 2002

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.

The Arab Dream Trailer (1998)

01 January 1998

In this autobiographical film the Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman goes in search of his past and possible future in occupied Palestine.

Kusturica - Balkan's Bad Boy Trailer (2012)

01 March 2012

A film director, an actor, a musician, an organizer of festivals, a husband, a father, a grand-father, a friend, a professor.

Homage by Assassination Trailer (1992)

01 January 1992

A Palestinian filmmaker is writing a script in his New York apartment during the first Gulf war. As much as he tries to shut himself off from the exterior world, images of past wars in the Middle East come back to haunt him.

Introduction to the End of an Argument Trailer (1990)

01 January 1990

Lebanese/Canadian artist Jayce Salloum and Elia Suleiman, a Palestinian filmmaker living in New York, have taken on our accumulated (mis)impressions of the Palestinian Intifada by tracing their genesis in film and television.

War and Peace in Vesoul Trailer (1997)

04 February 1997

In the train on the way to the Festival in Vesoul, filmmakers Amos Gitai and Elia Suleiman talk about the subjects that preoccupy them: war and peace in the Middle East, their film projects, their cities, their private lives… In Vesoul, the French welcome is rather comical and the questions of war and peace in the Middle East create misunderstandings: through a kind of inverted exoticism, we end up wondering who is really the “stranger” in this story.

Cyber Palestine Trailer (2000)

02 January 2000

Cyber ​​Palestine is a parable about a modern-day Mary and Joseph, two Palestinian returnees living in Gaza, and their tribulations with the Israeli occupation.

And Then They Burn the Sea Trailer (2021)

12 August 2021

Filmmaker Majid Al-Remaihi ruminates on the experience of witnessing his mother’s terminal memory loss over the course of many years.