Mahdi Fleifel
(Denmark)

Mahdi Fleifel is a Danish-Palestinian film director who graduated in 2009 from the UK National Film & TV School. He is the co-founder of London-based production company Nakba FilmWorks which he runs alongside Irish producer Patrick Campbell. Mahdi is currently based in Amsterdam where he has lived since 2014.

His debut feature, A World Not Ours (2012), premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and picked up over 30 awards, including the Peace Film Prize at the 2013 Berlinale and the Edinburgh, Yamagata and DOC:NYC Grand Jury Prizes.

Mahdi's 2016 film, A Man Returned, won the Silver Bear and the European Film Nomination at the Berlinale and his latest film, A Drowning Man, formed part of the Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival.

Films
Filmography
3 Logical Exits
2020
Men In The Sun
2018
A Drowning Man
2017
A Man Returned
2016
Xenos
2014
A World Not Ours
2012
Four Weeks
2009
Arafat & I
2008
The Writer
2007
Harrisons Monday’s Arms
2006
Hamoudi & Emil
2004
Shadi In The Beautiful Well
2003

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