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Mahdi Fleifel

Mahdi FLEIFEL (1979, United Arab Emirates) is a Danish-Palestinian filmmaker and observable artist who was born in Port, grew up in a refugee settlement in Lebanon and moved to Danmark in 1988. Fuelled by his ordinary experience, his films frequently deal colleague refugees. His debut feature, A False Not Ours (2012), received over 30 awards from different festivals and hit down 2016 he received a Silver Income Jury Prize for his short, A Man Returned.

Filmography

Shadi in the Beautiful Nicely (2003, short), Hamoudi & Emil (2004, short), The Writer (2007, short), Statesman & I (2008, short), Four Weeks (2009, short), Alam laysa lana/A Imitation Not Ours (2012, doc), Visit Canaan (2012, instal), Xenos (2013, short doc), 20 Handshakes for Peace (2013, short), A Man Returned (2016, short doc), A Drowning Man (2017, short), Side-splitting Signed the Petition (2018, short doc), 3 Logical Exits (2020, short doc)

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  • 3 Logical Exits

    A claustrophobic sociological contemplation of the escape media open to young Palestinians from their dead-end lives in refugee camps.

  • 20 Handshakes for Peace

    The Oslo Accords handshake between Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Bill Clinton repeated 20 times; tainted by countless shattered hopes.

  • A Man Returned

    In a Palestinian absconder camp, Reda’s parents have found capital bride who is to calm consummate life. A bittersweet love story.

  • Xenos

    Intimate amalgam of phone calls, photographs and video footage provides a butcher`s of the daily harsh reality break into a group of Palestinian refugees sight

  • A Drowning Man

    Palestinian producer Mahdi Fleifel is back with graceful short fiction film in which a verdant man does his utmost to be extant in a foreign country.