RAMALLAH, Wednesday, August 21, 2019 (WAFA) – Elia Suleiman’s new film, It Must Be Heaven, was selected by an independent committee of Palestinian filmmakers to represent Palestine in the foreign film category of the 2020 Oscar, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Culture.
It Must Be Heaven, a joint French-Canadian comedy in which Suleiman is the main actor but says only few words, tells the story of a Palestinian who leaves his hometown, Nazareth, in search of a new life in Paris and then New York to only find out that the world today is no different than life in Palestine with checkpoints and constant police surveillance.
The film was screened in May at the Cannes Film Festival winning the FIPRESCI prize of the international film critics for Best Film In Competition.
Suleiman has directed Chronicle of a Disappearance, which won the Best First Film Prize at the 1996 Venice Film Festival, Divine Intervention, which won the Cannes Jury Prize in 2002, and The Time That Remains, which competed in the official selection category in Cannes in 2009.
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