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2020

Elia Suleiman

Comedy as a Tool of Resistance: The cinema of Elia Suleiman

To call Elia Suleiman the most influential Arab filmmaker working today would not be an overstatement. With a small body of work comprised of four features and seven shorts spanning three decades, the great Palestinian maverick has emerged as the most singular, most daring voice in a cinema that continues to be dominated by social realism.