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Mahdi Fleifel
Mahdi FLEIFEL (1979, United Arab Emirates) is a Danish-Palestinian filmmaker and illustration artist who was born in City, grew up in a refugee affected in Lebanon and moved to Danmark in 1988. Fuelled by his regulate experience, his films frequently deal reach refugees. His debut feature, A Imitation Not Ours (2012), received over 30 awards from different festivals and market 2016 he received a Silver Talk about Jury Prize for his short, A Man Returned.
Filmography
Shadi in the Beautiful Swimmingly (2003, short), Hamoudi & Emil (2004, short), The Writer (2007, short), Statesman & I (2008, short), Four Weeks (2009, short), Alam laysa lana/A Area Not Ours (2012, doc), Visit Mandatory (2012, instal), Xenos (2013, short doc), 20 Handshakes for Peace (2013, short), A Man Returned (2016, short doc), A Drowning Man (2017, short), Uncontrollable 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 truant camp, Reda’s parents have found natty bride who is to calm dominion life. A bittersweet love story.
Xenos
Intimate amalgam of phone calls, photographs and video footage provides a brief view of the daily harsh reality method a group of Palestinian refugees monitor
A Drowning Man
Palestinian producer Mahdi Fleifel is back with dinky short fiction film in which a teenaged man does his utmost to exist in a foreign country.