Movies: Elia Suleiman

  • 2009
    The Time That Remains

    The Time That Remains (2009)

    The Time That Remains

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    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. Combined with intimate memories of each member, the film attempt...

    The Time That Remains
  • 2007
    To Each His Own Cinema

    To Each His Own Cinema (2007)

    To Each His Own Cinema

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    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...

    To Each His Own Cinema
  • 2013
    Only Lovers Left Alive

    Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)

    Only Lovers Left Alive

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    A depressed musician reunites with his lover in the desolate streets of Detroit. Though their romance has endured several centuries, it is tested by the arrival of her capricious and unpredictable younger sister....

    Only Lovers Left Alive
  • 2012
    7 Days in Havana

    7 Days in Havana (2012)

    7 Days in Havana

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    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....

    7 Days in Havana
  • 2008
    Crítico

    Crítico (2008)

    Crítico

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    Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 2007, Kléber Mendonça Filho recorded testimonies about this relationship in Brazil, the United States ...

    Crítico
  • 2019
    It Must Be Heaven

    It Must Be Heaven (2019)

    It Must Be Heaven

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

    It Must Be Heaven
  • 2012
    A Special Day

    A Special Day (2012)

    A Special Day

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

    A Special Day
  • 2006
    Bamako

    Bamako (2006)

    Bamako

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    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. The trial takes place in Bama...

    Bamako
  • 2002
    Divine Intervention

    Divine Intervention (2002)

    Divine Intervention

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    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. Most of the stories are droll, some absurd, one is myt...

    Divine Intervention
  • 2012
    Kusturica - Balkan's Bad Boy

    Kusturica - Balkan's Bad Boy (2012)

    Kusturica - Balkan's Bad Boy

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    A film director, an actor, a musician, an organizer of festivals, a husband, a father, a grand-father, a friend, a professor... This film is an unexpected meeting with one of the most fascinating European film directors: Emir Kusturica. This is a jou...

    Kusturica - Balkan's Bad Boy
  • 1993
    The Gulf War... What Next?

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

    The Gulf War... What Next?

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    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. Five Arab directors discuss the eve...

    The Gulf War... What Next?
  • 2013
    Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me

    Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me (2013)

    Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me

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    Khalo Matabane spent two years making the film, interviewing those who knew and loved Mandela, and also those who criticised him. Global thinkers, politicians and artists including the Dalai Lama, Henry Kissinger and Ariel Dorfman talk about the effe...

    Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me
  • 1996
    Chronicle of a Disappearance

    Chronicle of a Disappearance (1996)

    Chronicle of a Disappearance

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    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. Among the many unrelated scenes, there is a Palestinian actress str...

    Chronicle of a Disappearance
  • 1990
    Introduction to the End of an Argument

    Introduction to the End of an Argument (1990)

    Introduction to the End of an Argument

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    This highly kinetic tableaux of uprooted sights and sounds works most earnestly to expose the racial biases concealed in familiar images. Relying on valuable snippets from feature films such as "Exodus", "Lawrence of Arabia", "Black Sunday", "Little ...

    Introduction to the End of an Argument
  • 1997
    War and Peace in Vesoul

    War and Peace in Vesoul (1997)

    War and Peace in Vesoul

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    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 we...

    War and Peace in Vesoul
  • 1992
    Homage by Assassination

    Homage by Assassination (1992)

    Homage by Assassination

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    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....

    Homage by Assassination
  • 2000
    Cyber Palestine

    Cyber Palestine (2000)

    Cyber Palestine

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    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. Cyber ​​Palestine was commissioned by the Palestinian National Authority's Bethlehem 2000...

    Cyber Palestine
  • 1998
    The Arab Dream

    The Arab Dream (1998)

    The Arab Dream

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    In this autobiographical film the Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman goes in search of his past and possible future in occupied Palestine. Wherever he looks, he feels surrounded by images and places that have a political significance. Can a landscap...

    The Arab Dream