In a freewheeling masterclass held at the Marrakech Film Festival on Thursday, director Elia Suleiman offered as concise a mission statement as can be, defining his guiding beliefs in four short wo…
offered as concise a mission statement as can be, defining his guiding beliefs in four short words.
He continued, “If you try to imagine authorities always posed as a force, they’re not easy to crack. The way they maintain themselves is by creating a sense of fear. But the second you make a crack in the system, they fall.”after his class. “I don’t take pleasure in manufacturing images of violence,” he said. “I cartoonize [authority] and make them ridiculous. They get so annoyed about that, they would prefer if I showed them torturing Palestinians. But that’s the magic of cinema.
In between upcoming promotional trips to Germany, Mexico and Hong Kong, the filmmaker will once again return to Qatar, where he will oversee the sixth edition of Doha Film Institute’s Qumra workshop this coming March.
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