Screenplay: Elia Suleiman

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Elia Suleiman. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


The Time That Remains

2009 · Movie · 109 min. · France

Direction Elia Suleiman

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

6.0

431 votes

6.0

431 votes

Homage by Assassination (S)

1992 · Movie · 23 min. · United States

Direction Elia Suleiman

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

Plot 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,...

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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

Plot 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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Cyber Palestine (S)

1999 · Movie · 16 min. · Palestine

Direction Elia Suleiman

Cast Khader Abu Sway · Serene Al Hamayel

Plot 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...

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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

Plot 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...

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The Arab Dream

1998 · Movie · 30 min. · Palestine

Direction Elia Suleiman

Cast Elia Suleiman · Ula Tabari

Plot 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...

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