It Must Be Heaven
Special Screening - Ajyal Film Festival 2019
Elia Suleiman / France, Qatar, Germany, Canada, Turkey, Palestine / 2019 / 102 min / Colour / DCP / In Arabic, English, French / Arabic, English subtitles
Themes: Comedy
Rated: 
Mature subject matter. Not suitable for minors. Individuals under the age of 18 are not admitted into cinemas.
Description
Award-winning Palestinian auteur Elia Suleiman turns his signature observational style from Palestine to a broader world, full of comparable tension, absurdity and paranoia. In each new city, Suleiman is wide-eyed with curiosity and wonder at the daily lives of the respective inhabitants, yet time and again, something always seems to remind him of home. Winner of the Jury Special Mention and FIPRESCI Critics’ Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019—‘It Must Be Heaven’ is a comic saga exploring identity, nationality and belonging, in which Suleiman asks the fundamental question: where is the place we can truly call home?
Director
Elia Suleiman
Credits
- Producer
- Édouard Weil, Laurine Pelassy, Elia Suleiman, Thanassis Karathanos, Georges Schoucair, Zeynep Atakan
- Cinematographer
- Sofian El Fani
- Editor
- Véronique Lange
- Cast
- Elia Suleiman, Gael García Bernal, Tarik Kopti, Kareem Ghneim, George Khleifi, Ali Suleiman, Fares Muqabaa, Yasmine Haj, Nael Kanj, Asmaa Azaizy, Grégoire Colin, Vincent Maraval, Claire Dumas, Antoine Cholet, Eric Cornet, Yumi Narita, Kengo Saito, Stephen Mchattie, Raïa Haïdar, Fadi Sakr, Kwasi Songui, Guy Sprung, Nancy Grant, Alain Dahan