European Film Awards

In 2002, he premiered in Cannes with DIVINE INTERVENTION which received the festival’s Jury Award and the FIPRESCI International Critics Prize and went on to win the Screen International Award at the European Film Awards as well as the Danish critics’ award Bodil. He again premiered in Cannes in 2009 with THE TIME THAT REMAINS which continued to be selected for the European Film Awards and won Best Director at the Mar del Plata Film Festival.
 
His 2019 comic saga IT MUST BE HEAVEN also premiered in Cannes where it received the FIPRESCI International Critics Prize and a Special Mention. The film was again selected for the European Film Awards and won the EURIMAGES Award at the Seville European Film Festival.

Elia Suleiman is an artistic advisor of the Doha Film Institute and has received the Dutch Prince Claus Award as well as the Prize Henri-Jeanson by the French Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques (SACD) which annually celebrates an author in memory of one the greatest scriptwriters of French cinema.
 
He is the first Palestinian director to win the European Achievement in World Cinema Award. Elia Suleiman will be an honorary guest at the 35th European Film Awards Ceremony on 10 December in Reykjavik.
 
 
 
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About the European Film Academy
The European Film Academy seeks to support and connect its 4,400 members and celebrates and promotes their work. Its aims are to share knowledge and to educate audiences of all ages about European cinema. Positioning itself as a leading organization and facilitating crucial debates within the industry, the Academy strives to unite everyone who loves European cinema, culminating annually in the Month of European Film and the European Film Awards, by including European film heritage in its portfolio and by expanding its focus on young audiences through the European Film Club.