I don't particularly have a good memory. I think history is many times just the text written by the victors. I wanted to counter that aspect.
Elia SuleimanA lot of narrative films leave you no space for anything else but eating popcorn. I want to go in the complete opposite direction. I have to evacuate all psychology, to be less a protagonist and more a presence.
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