Elia Suleiman
Elia Suleiman ( born July 28, 1960 in Nazareth, Israel) is a Palestinian film director.
Life
Suleiman's career as a filmmaker began in New York, where he lived from 1982 to 1993 and two short films, Introduction To The End Of An Argument (1991) and Homage By Assassination (1992 ) turned. In 1994, he returned to Jerusalem and was a lecturer at the Palestinian Birzeit University. His experiences on his return took Suleiman 1996 together in his first feature film, the political comedy Chronicle of a Disappearance. In this film, Suleiman acted not only as a director, producer and screenwriter, but also occurred on itself along with other family members. Chronicle of a Disappearance was honored at the Venice Film Festival as the best first work.
Suleiman became famous in 2002 with the film Divine Intervention - A chronicle of love and pain, an anecdotal composite tragi-comedy, in which he describes the everyday life of the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis. From the criticism of this film in the tradition of Jacques Tati, Jim Jarmusch and Buster Keaton was seen. Suleiman, who is also the lead role of " E. S. " took over, won several awards for divine intervention, including the Jury Prize of the 55th International Film Festival of Cannes, the European Film Award for the best non - European film and Bodil as the best non-American film. In 2006 he was a member of the competition jury of the 59th International Film Festival in Cannes. Three years later he received for his film The Time That Remains again an invitation to compete in the 62nd International film festival in Cannes. In 2008 he was one of the winners of the Prince Claus Award.