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EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2022

The European Film Academy honours Elia Suleiman with the European Achievement in World Cinema Award

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- The first Palestinian director to win the prize will be an honorary guest at the 35th European Film Awards ceremony on 10 December in Reykjavik

The European Film Academy honours Elia Suleiman with the European Achievement in World Cinema Award
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The European Film Academy will present the European Achievement in World Cinema Award to Elia Suleiman for his impressive dedication to cinema. He is the first Palestinian director to win the European Achievement in World Cinema Award, and he will be an honorary guest at the 35th European Film Awards ceremony on 10 December in Reykjavik.

Born in Nazareth, the Palestinian writer, director, actor and producer moved to Jerusalem where the European Commission had entrusted him with the mission of creating a Film and Media Department at Birzeit University. He summarised his experiences in his 1996 feature debut Chronicle of a Disappearance which he not only wrote, directed and produced but also acted in with other family members. The film won the Luigi De Laurentiis Award for a debut film in Venice.

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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. He again premiered in Cannes in 2009 with The Time that Remains [+see also:
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which continued to be selected for the European Film Awards. His 2019 comic saga It Must Be Heaven [+see also:
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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.

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 France's Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques (SACD) which annually celebrates an author in memory of one the greatest scriptwriters of French cinema.

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