He attended IDHEC, the French Institute of Cinema. His first film, the documentary Hold Back the Sea (1961), won an award at the Berlin International Film Festi­val. The award-winning thriller The Vanishing (1988) brought Sluizer wider recognition. His other films in­clude Joao and the Knife (1971), Twice a Woman (1979), Utz (1991), Crimetime (1995), The Commissioner (1979) and Stoneraft (2002). His production credits include Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo (1982). His trilogy of doc­umentaries about a Palestinian family made between 1974 and 1983, The Land of the Fathers, screened at ADFF in 2008, as did his film about Palestinian refu­gee camps in Beirut, Homeland, which was named Best Documentary from the Arab World in 2010.