Elia Suleiman is in every scene of “It Must Be Heaven,” but he only speaks four words. The writer-director-star finds himself in a New York taxi cab in the midst of a globe-trotting journey after ...

“Where am I?” a disoriented Israeli cabdriver asks his dispatcher at the beginning of Elia Suleiman’s The Time That Remains. This pointillist portrait of Israeli Arabs in Nazareth tries to answer that ...

The European Film Academy will honor Palestinian auteur Elia Suleiman with its European Achievement in World Cinema Award. The Paris-based Suleiman, whose most recent work “It Must Be Heaven” ...

Few places on Earth seem more tragic at this moment than the checkpoint between Jerusalem and Ramallah. In Elia Suleiman’s fiction film “Divine Intervention,” the checkpoint isn’t just a physical ...

A former Cannes Film Festival jury member, Suleiman will help steer the organization and the Doha Film Festival. By Stuart Kemp Qatar’s Doha Film Institute on Wednesday said it has hired filmmaker ...

The 30th Sarajevo Film Festival will pay tribute to Palestinian director Elia Suleiman in recognition of his “outstanding contribution to the art of film.” The filmmaker will be presented with the ...

When it comes to cinema, the tragic situation in Palestine typically inspires grim documentaries or realist tales of hardship and war. Elia Suleiman has always opted for a different route, composing ...

Elia Suleiman: I never really come to a film through the structure. I simply jot down notes and build a story through them. Then I compose tableaux. When I get a tableau that stands by itself, it ...

From Nazareth to Paris and on to North America, Palestinian filmmaker-actor Elia Suleiman searches for the future of his native land in 'It Must Be Heaven.' By Deborah Young Filmmaker and actor Elia ...

The Doha Film Institute’s Qumra talent and project incubator event returned as a 100% in-person event last week, bringing participants together face-to-face in Doha for the first time since it was ...

Cannes: The Palestinian filmmaker's first movie in a decade is another insightful deadpan odyssey. Elia Suleiman is in every scene of “It Must Be Heaven,” but he only speaks four words. The ...