Cast: Elia Suleiman

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Elia Suleiman. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Bamako (The Court)

2006 · Movie · 118 min. · Mali

Direction Abderrahmane Sissako

Cast Aïssa Maiga · Tiécoura Traoré · Maimouna Helene Diarra · Habib Dembélé

Synopsis Melé is a bar singer, her husband Chaka is out of work and the couple is on the verge of breaking up. In the courtyard of the house they share with other families, a court has been set up: African...

6.7

360 votes

6.7

360 votes

The Time That Remains

2009 · Movie · 109 min. · France

Direction Elia Suleiman

Cast Saleh Bakri · Yasmine Haj · Leila Muammar · Elia Suleiman

Synopsis THE TIME THAT REMAINS is a semi biographic film, in four historic episodes, about a family -my family - spanning from 1948, until recent times. The film is inspired by my father’s diaries of his personal accounts, starting from when...

6.6

166 votes

6.6

166 votes

It Must Be Heaven

2019 · Movie · 97 min. · Palestine

Direction Elia Suleiman

Cast Ali Suliman · Elia Suleiman · Holden Wong · Robert Higden

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

6.5

309 votes

6.5

309 votes

To Each His Cinema

2007 · Movie · 111 min. · France

Direction Theodoros Angelopoulos · Olivier Assayas · Bille August · Jane Campion

Cast Cindy Beckett · Audrey Dana · Jacques Frantz · George Babluani

Synopsis To Each His Cinema is a 2007 film, produced and conceived by Gilles Jacob, celebrating the Cannes Film Festival's 60th anniversary. The film is comprised of a collection of 35 three-minute short films by some of the world's leading directors,...

6.2

1K votes

6.2

1K votes

Divine Intervention

2002 · Movie · 92 min. · Palestine

Direction Elia Suleiman

Cast Elia Suleiman · Manal Khader · Nayef Fahoum Daher

Synopsis Palestinian director and performer Elia Suleiman delivers a darkly comic masterpiece. Suleiman utilizes irreverence, wit, mysticism and insight to craft an intense, hallucinogenic and extremely adept exploration of the dreams and nightmares of Palestinians and Israelis living in uncertain times....

6.0

431 votes

6.0

431 votes

7 Days in Havana

2012 · Movie · 125 min. · Spain

Direction Laurent Cantet · Benicio del Toro · Julio Medem · Gaspar Noé

Cast Josh Hutcherson · Emir Kusturica · Daniel Brühl · Jorge Perugorría

Synopsis A young American boy is trying to break into the acting business, and goes to Cuba during a film festival.

5.6

2K votes

5.6

2K votes

Homage by Assassination (S)

1992 · Movie · 23 min. · United States

Direction Elia Suleiman

Cast Elia Suleiman · Robert Harriman · Paul McIsaac · Ella Habiba Shohat

Synopsis 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...

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The Gulf War... What Next?

1991 · Documentary · 108 min. · Tunisia

Direction Elia Suleiman · Borhane Alaouié · Néjia Ben Mabrouk · Nouri Bouzid

Cast Najate Atabou · Raouf Ben Amor · Touria Hadraoui · Touria Jabrane

Synopsis The Gulf War, from five different Arab filmmakers point of view. In their respective works and itineraries, they share the same concern for authenticity.

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Chronicle of a Disappearance

1996 · Movie · 88 min. · Palestine

Direction Elia Suleiman

Cast Elia Suleiman · Ula Tabari · Nazira Suleiman · Fuad Suleiman

Synopsis A young Palestinian filmmaker returns from U.S. to film a movie in his country. The observation of the Palestinian way of life, people that are living in their land occupied since 1948, contrasts with a delirious political fantasy about the...

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The Arab Dream

1998 · Movie · 30 min. · Palestine

Direction Elia Suleiman

Cast Elia Suleiman · Ula Tabari

Synopsis The Palestinian film-maker Elia Suleiman goes in search of his past and possible future in occupied territory. Wherever he looks, he feels surrounded by images and places that have a political significance. Can a landscape be free of meaning, is...

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