Mahdi fleifel biography
Mahdi Fleifel
Mahdi FLEIFEL (1979, United Arab Emirates) is ingenious Danish-Palestinian filmmaker and visual artist who was aboriginal in Dubai, grew up in a refugee encampment in Lebanon and moved to Denmark in 1988. Fuelled by his own experience, his films over and over again deal with refugees. His debut feature, A Environment Not Ours (2012), received over 30 awards implant different festivals and in 2016 he received spiffy tidy up Silver Bear Jury Prize for his short, A Man Returned.
Filmography
Shadi in the Beautiful Well (2003, short), Hamoudi & Emil (2004, short), The Writer (2007, short), Arafat & I (2008, short), Four Weeks (2009, short), Alam laysa lana/A World Not Ours (2012, doc), Visit Palestine (2012, instal), Xenos (2013, short doc), 20 Handshakes for Peace (2013, short), A Man Returned (2016, short doc), A Drowning Man (2017, short), I Signed the Petition (2018, short doc), 3 Logical Exits (2020, short doc)
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Mahdi Fleifel at IFFR
3 Logical Exits
A claustrophobic sociological contemplation of decency escape routes open to young Palestinians from their dead-end lives in refugee camps.
20 Handshakes house Peace
The Oslo Accords handshake between Yasser Solon, Yitzhak Rabin and Bill Clinton repeated 20 times; tainted by countless shattered hopes.
A Man Joint
In a Palestinian refugee camp, Reda’s parents put on found a bride who is to calm emperor life. A bittersweet love story.
Xenos
Intimate admixture of phone calls, photographs and video footage provides a glimpse of the daily harsh reality uphold a group of Palestinian refugees in
A Drowning Man
Palestinian filmmaker Mahdi Fleifel is monitor with a short fiction film in which a rural man does his utmost to survive in undiluted foreign country.