FILM DIRECTOR

Elia Suleiman

1960 - Today

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Elia Suleiman (Arabic: إيليا سليمان, IPA: [ˈʔiːlja sʊleːˈmaːn]; born 28 July 1960) is a Palestinian film director and actor. He is best known for the 2002 film Divine Intervention (Arabic: يد إلهية), a modern tragicomedy on living under occupation in Palestine which won the Jury Prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. Suleiman's cinematic style is often compared to that of Jacques Tati and Buster Keaton, for its poetic interplay between "burlesque and sobriety". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elia Suleiman has received more than 246,373 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Elia Suleiman is the 877th most popular film director (up from 1,011th in 2019), the 260th most popular biography from Israel (down from 252nd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Israeli Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 250k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.70

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Elia Suleimen by language

Over the past year Elia Suleiman has had the most page views in the with 36,891 views, followed by French (10,514), and Italian (8,563). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Czech (197.94%), Malagasy (155.69%), and Portuguese (143.91%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Elia Suleiman ranks 877 out of 2,041. Before him are Jack Clayton, Yevgeni Bauer, Esfir Shub, Nicolas Winding Refn, Jonathan Nolan, and Ennio de Concini. After him are Martin McDonagh, Ivan Ivanov-Vano, Alex Proyas, Anthony Harvey, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, and Mitchell Leisen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Elia Suleiman ranks 203. Before him are Aleida Guevara, Doug Hutchison, Almudena Grandes, Pedro Delgado, Susanne Lothar, and Eric Adams. After him are Linden Ashby, Oleg Bryjak, Mikael Håfström, Tomislav Ivković, Aguri Suzuki, and Anders Hejlsberg.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, Elia Suleiman ranks 260 out of 466. Before him are Ari Folman (1962), Benny Morris (1948), Yossi Benayoun (1980), Yaakov Neeman (1939), Joseph Raz (1939), and Ilanit (1947). After him are Rika Zaraï (1938), Mohammad Bakri (1953), Joan of Acre (1272), Oded Fehr (1970), Yossi Sarid (1940), and Miri Regev (1965).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Israel

Among film directors born in Israel, Elia Suleiman ranks 7. Before him are Amos Gitai (1950), Assi Dayan (1945), Menahem Golan (1929), Ralph Bakshi (1938), Avi Arad (1948), and Ari Folman (1962). After him are Hany Abu-Assad (1961), Samuel Maoz (1962), Oren Peli (1970), and Etan Cohen (1974).

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Filmography

It Must Be Heaven
Director
Filmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland of Palestine.
Dec 4o 20196.514 / 10
To Each His Own Cinema
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A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about cinema.
Oct 31o 20076.602 / 10
7 Days in Havana
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A young American boy is trying to break into the acting business, and goes to Cuba during a film festival.
Apr 5o 20125.745 / 10