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Elia Suleiman

28 July 1960 – present

Elia Suleiman is a Palestinian film director, screenwriter and actor born in Nazareth. His features, in which he usually appears as a largely silent observer, include Chronicle of a Disappearance, Divine Intervention and It Must Be Heaven. His work has been shown in competition at the Cannes and Venice film festivals, where it has received several awards.

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Born in Nazareth
28 July 1960

Born to a Palestinian Christian family in Nazareth, in northern Israel.

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Left Nazareth and settled in New York City
1982 – 1993

After a period in London he moved to New York, where he lived for about a decade and began making films.

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Made his first short films in New York
1990 – 1992

Works from this period include Introduction to the End of an Argument and Homage by Assassination.

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Returned to Jerusalem to establish a film and media department at Birzeit University
1994

The post was created with funding from the European Commission.

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Released his first feature, Chronicle of a Disappearance
1996

The film received the prize for best first feature at the Venice Film Festival.

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Divine Intervention won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival
2002

The film also received the International Federation of Film Critics prize at Cannes.

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The Time That Remains premiered in competition at Cannes
2009

The film draws on his father's diaries and his mother's letters to trace his family's history from 1948.

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It Must Be Heaven received a Special Mention at Cannes
2019

The film competed for the Palme d'Or and also won the international critics' prize.

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