Elia Suleiman — Director (6)

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Cyber Palestine (2000)
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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 Project as part of the millennium commemorations in Bethlehem.

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Introduction to the End of an Argument (1990)
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other title: 争论的终结 / Muqaddimah Li-Nihāyāt Jidāl
Made by the Lebanese-Canadian video artist Jayce Salloum and the Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman, 'Introduction to the End of an Argument' deals with the distorted picture we have of Arab culture in general and of the Intifada – the Palestinian resistance to Israel’s occupation – in particular. Salloum and Suleiman have combined and confronted fragments of image and text taken from Hollywood, European and Israeli films, documentaries and news items with material Salloum personally recorded in Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip. What is revealed is far from reassuring: for years we have been bombarded with a vision of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict that is riddled with racist and ideological prejudice. Instead of listening to the people involed, we have allowed ourselves to be brainwashed by the insidious images and news items propagated by our own, prejudiced and superficial media. The videotape mimics the dominant media's forms of representation, subverting its methodology and construction. A process of displacement and deconstruction is enacted attempting to arrest the imagery and ideology, decolonizing and recontextualizing it to provide a space for a marginalized voice consistently denied expression in the media. Salloum and Suleiman have compiled an incisive argument for the need to think and look beyond.

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Chronicle of a Disappearance (1996)
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伊利亚·苏雷曼 actor: 伊利亚·苏雷曼 / Nazira Suleiman …
other title: 消失文明的编年史 / سجل اختفاء …
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 struggling to find an apartment in West Jerusalem, the owner of the Holy Land souvenir shop preparing merchandise for incoming Japanese tourists, a group of old women gossiping about their relatives, and an Israeli police van which screeches to a halt so several heavily armed soldiers can get off the car and urinate.

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Divine Intervention (2002)
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★ 7.2 10 ratings
伊利亚·苏雷曼 actor: 伊利亚·苏雷曼 / Manal Khader …
other title: 神的介入 / Yadon ilaheyya …
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 mythic and fanciful; few words are spoken. A man who goes through his mail methodically each morning has a heart attack. His son visits him in the hospital. The son regularly meets a woman at Al-Ram; they sit in a car, hands caressing. Once, she defies Israeli guards at the checkpoint; later, ninja-like, she takes on soldiers at a target range. A red balloon floats free overhead. Neighbors toss garbage over walls. Life goes on until it doesn't.

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The Time That Remains (2009)
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★ 8.8 9 ratings
伊利亚·苏雷曼 actor: Saleh Bakri / 伊利亚·苏雷曼 …
other title: 时光依旧 / 这事不能说太细(港) …
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 attempts to portray the daily life of those Palestinians who remained in their land and were labelled "Israeli-Arabs," living as a minority in their own homeland.