Simply sign up to the Film myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. First Garbo talked. Now it’s Elia Suleiman’s turn. “So what country do you come from?” asks a New York taxi driver in It ...

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 ...

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 ...

With pursed lips and welcoming eyes, Yasser Arafat is grinning as he looks into the camera. This isn't the real Arafat but a caricature, and it's on a garish red-pink balloon floating over an Israeli ...

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has inked Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman, whose fifth film It Must Be Heaven won the Jury Special Mention and Fipresci Critics’ Award at last May’s Cannes Film Festival, and will ...

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 ...

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” ...

In It Must Be Heaven, the droll, impeccable new comedy from Elia Suleiman, Gael García Bernal introduces the director – who is playing himself: “This is my friend, Elia Suleiman, the Palestinian ...