Palestinian director Elia Suleiman, who won the Cannes Jury Prize for Divine Intervention in 2002, returns with a similarly immaculate, comically deadpan examination of life as an Israeli Arab in Nazareth from 1948 to today. A "bridge between Edward Said and Buster Keaton," Toronto Film Festival.

by Elia Suleiman, Palestine/UK/Italy/Belgium/France 2009, 105 mins, with Ali Suliman, Elia Suleiman, Saleh Bakri

Palestinian director Elia Suleiman (Divine Intervention) returns with a similarly immaculate, comically deadpan examination of life as an Israeli Arab in Nazareth from 1948 to today. Based on his father's diaries and his own reminiscences, the film tells the story of a young rebel forced into exile who returns to Nazareth as an adult to find more apathy than anger. Suleiman chronicles history with devastating absurdity and wit.

Elia Suleiman / Palestine, U.K., Italy, Belgium, France / 2009

Director : Elia Suleiman
Actor : Elia Suleiman

Feature film, Fiction
Production language : Hebrew
Nationality : Majority French (France, Belgium, Italy)
Co-production : Artémis Productions, Bim Distribuzione, France 3 Cinéma
French distribution : Le Pacte
Film export/Foreign Sales : Wild Bunch Distribution


2009 | MIEFF, Abu Dhabi
* NARRATIVE FEATURE COMPETITION
* MIDDLE EAST PREMIERE)