What cinema can do is the reordering of this reality from a certain chaos or from a certain order into an aesthetic dimension.
Elia SuleimanLiving more intensely, more lovingly, with more camaraderie, that is in itself resistance.
Elia SuleimanI'm not in the business of saying just one thing about just one place. If you only see Palestine in my films, then I've failed because then I'm just a provincial filmmaker.
Elia SuleimanIt's a false illusion that we wake up thinking of who we are in terms of identity and that we are stuck in the boundaries of who we are nationalistically.
Elia Suleiman