Mahdi FLEIFEL

Mahdi Fleifel is a Danish filmmaker of Palestinian origins. Born in Dubai, he was raised in the Ain El-Helweh refugee camp in Lebanon and later in the suburbs of Elsinore, Denmark. He began filmmaking at an early age – a hobby he picked up from his father’s obsession with video cameras. Fleifel studied at the National Film and Television School under directors Udayan Prasad, Ian Sellar and Stephen Frears. His first-year film, Arafat & I, screened in many international festivals and won prizes in Romania, Italy and the Czech Republic. In 2010 Fleifel teamed up with Irish producer Patrick Campbell. Together they set up the London-based production company Nakba Filmworks through which they released Fleifel’s autobiographical feature A World Not Ours. Launched at the Toronto Film Festival in 2012, A World Not Ours opened to high critical acclaim. Currently on the festival circuit, the film has received multiple awards and screened in the official selection in Berlin, Abu Dhabi and Palm Springs. Fleifel is now preparing his next feature, Untitled Project.

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