Mahdi Fleifel

Mahdi Fleifel (born October 25, 1979 at Dubai) is a Danish-Palestinian film director.

Mahdi Fleifel
Born
NationalityDanish
Alma materNational Film and Television School at Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire
OccupationFilmmaker
Years active2003 – present
Websitehttp://nakbafilmworks.com

Biography

Mahdi Fleifel was raised in the refugee camp Ein el-Helweh in Lebanon and later in a suburb of Helsingør in Denmark. In 2009 he graduated from the National Film and Television School at Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. In 2010 he set up the London-based production company Nakba FilmWorks.[1]

His debut feature documentary, A World Not Ours, picked up several awards.[2] His short film, A Man Returned, won the Silver Bear and the European Film Nomination at the Berlinale and his film, A Drowning Man, was in the Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival 2017.[3]

Filmography

YearTitle
2012A World Not Ours[4]
2014Xenos (short film)
201520 Handshakes for Peace (short film)
2016A Man Returned (short film)
2017A Drowning Man (short film)
2018I Signed the Petition (short film)
20203 Logical Exits (short film)
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