The European Film Academy will present Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman with the European achievement in world cinema award at this year’s European Film Awards in Reykjavik on December 10.
He is the first Palestinian director to receive the honour.
Suleiman wrote, directed and starred in his debut feature Chronicle Of A Disappearance in 1996. The film detailed his experiences returning to Israel and picked the Luigi De Laurentiis Award for debut feature at Venice.
Divine Intervention was the first of many of Suleiman’s films to screen at Cannes. The 2002 drama won the jury award and the Fipresci prize at the festival and went on to win Screen International’s award at the European Film Awards.
The director’s further Cannes titles include The Time That Remains (2009) and It Must Be Heaven (2019).
Suleiman is also the artistic advisor of the Doha Film Institute.
Last year, the European achievement award was presented to Danish director Susanne Bier.
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