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

Biography

Mahdi Fleifel was raised in the refugee camp

Ein el-Helweh Ain al-Hilweh ( ar, عين الحلوة, lit. meaning "sweet natural spring"), also spelled as Ayn al-Hilweh and Ein al-Hilweh, is the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon. It had a population of over 70,000 Palestinian refugees but swell ...

in Lebanon and later in a suburb of

Helsingør Helsingør ( , ; sv, Helsingör), classically known in English as Elsinore ( ), is a city in eastern Denmark. Helsingør Municipality had a population of 62,686 on 1 January 2018. Helsingør and Helsingborg in Sweden together form the northern ...

in Denmark. In 2009 he graduated from the

National Film and Television School The National Film and Television School (NFTS) is a film, television and games school established in 1971 and based at Beaconsfield Studios in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England. It is featured in the 2021 ranking by ''The Hollywood Repor ...

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, Buckinghamshire. In 2010 he set up the London-based production company Nakba FilmWorks. His debut feature documentary, ''A World Not Ours'', picked up several awards. 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.Mahdi Fleifel
on IDFA

Filmography

References

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