Elia Suleiman

Harb El Khalij... wa baad

Mostafa Derkaoui, Borhane Alaouié

Raouf Ben Amor, Najate Atabou

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 events from their personal perspective.

Кустурица - Балкански хулиган

Georgi Toshev, Yavor Vesselinov

Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Zoran Hamovic

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 journey to memory and forgetfulness. Beyond success, money, dependencies and pride. A deeper look into the world of Kusturica and his Wooden city at Mokra Gora. A tale about the won battles, as well as the lost ones. About the everlasting curiosity in filmmaking.

مقدمة لنهايات جدال

Jayce Salloum, Elia Suleiman

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 Drummer Girl", and network news shows, the filmmakers have constructed an oddly wry narrative, mimicking the history of Mid East politics.

Crítico

Kleber Mendonça Filho

Aki Kaurismäki, Alain Riou

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 and Europe, based on his experience as a critic.

الزمن الباقي

Elia Suleiman

Saleh Bakri, Elia Suleiman

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.

سجل اختفاء

Elia Suleiman

Elia Suleiman, Nazira Suleiman

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.

It Must Be Heaven

Elia Suleiman

Elia Suleiman, Ali Suliman

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

Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me

Khalo Matabane

Khalo Matabane, Greg Marinovich

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 effect of his policies and his decision making. Their thoughts are weighed equally with ordinary South Africans like Charity Kondile, who refuses to forgive her son's apartheid operative murderer. Through these interviews, completed in the last months of Mandela's life, Matabane interrogates for himself the meaning of freedom, reconciliation and forgiveness. By doing so he challenges Mandela's enduring impact in today's world of conflict and inequality. Thought-provoking and reflective, Mandela, the Myth and Me is a moving film which frames Mandela from a fresh, deeply personal perspective. (Storyville)

Bamako

Abderrahmane Sissako

Aïssa Maïga, Tiécoura Traoré

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 Bamako, in the yard of a house, among its inhabitants.

Al Hilm Al-‘Arabi

Elia Suleiman

Elia Suleiman

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 landscape be free of meaning, is there any point in striving for an approach that transcends all ideology? Commissioned by the ARTE network as part of a series of films for the end of the millennium, this film is a travelogue through Jerusalem, Nazareth and Ramallah. The film is a meditation on quotidian injustices, and a formulation of an aesthetic and creative response to them.

To Each His Own Cinema

Raúl Ruiz, Takeshi Kitano

Pegah Ahangarani, Leonid Alexeenko

A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about cinema.

يد إلهية‎

Elia Suleiman

Elia Suleiman, Manal Khader

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 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.

Une Journée particulière

Gilles Jacob, Samuel Faure

Theo Angelopoulos, Olivier Assayas

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

7 Days in Havana

Julio Medem, Laurent Cantet

Josh Hutcherson, Daniel Brühl

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

Cyber Palestine

Elia Suleiman

Khader Abu Sway, Serene Al Hamayel

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.

War and Peace in Vesoul

Amos Gitai, Elia Suleiman

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 welcome is rather comical and the questions of war and peace in the Middle East create misunderstandings: through a kind of inverted exoticism, we end up wondering who is really the “stranger” in this story.