I don't want what you see on the screen to just be a brief notion of pleasure but something that lingers. The idea is to have the images revisited. I want it to be something that also enhances the soul. I want the moment of pleasure to produce an attachment.
Elia SuleimanLiving more intensely, more lovingly, with more camaraderie, that is in itself resistance.
Elia SuleimanI try to use fiction in order to reduce the potentiality of something being true. We produce our own memories so I'm not sure of truth.
Elia SuleimanI do not teach history in my films. I don't have a linear point of view or argument. What I do in my films is to live the human experience; human, whether in Nazareth or anywhere else in the world.
Elia Suleiman