“Palestine is an extremely familiar place to me. Someone like me who lives everywhere in the world cannot be contained. If my hope and ambitions are in the right place, you can judge that in my films. I want to make films that diffuse any local notion. Cinema criss-crosses borders and check points. If the film is good, then it's universal.” IfsWorldWantFilmJudgingAmbitionCrossesUniversalNotionChecksLocalsFamiliarLike MeBordersCinemaPalestineRight PlaceFamiliar Places Author:Elia Suleiman
“The desire to express in an art form and to compose a tableau and vignette whether it's humorous, burlesque, or poetic comes simply from a desire to compose an image for cinema. It is not my fault that when I go to Ramallah there is a checkpoint and therefore it enters my film. Tell me a way to avoid that politicized image. The fact is that the police are everywhere, the army everywhere and occupation is total. Whether it's a love story or a thriller, you place the camera and these realities will cross the frame.” WayArtFactsStoriesRealityFilmFormDesireHumorousCrossesArmyPoliceCamerasFaultsLove StoryCinemaPoeticOccupationThrillersBurlesqueVignettesCheckpointsTableau Author:Elia Suleiman
“What cinema can do is the reordering of this reality from a certain chaos or from a certain order into an aesthetic dimension.” RealityCertainOrderCan DoChaosCinemaDimensionsAesthetic Author:Elia Suleiman
