Tawfik ABU WAEL

“Tawfik ABU WAEL : Israeli, Tawfik Abu Wael was born in the Palestinian town of Um El-Fahim in Israel in 1976. He graduated from Tel Aviv University where he studied film directing. From 1996 to 1998, he worked in the film archive of Tel Aviv University. From 1997 to 1999, Tawfik taught drama at Hassan Arafe School in Jaffa. He directed Bread, Hashish and the Moon (1997), I leave, You Stay (1998), Intellectual in Garbage (1998), Characters (1998), Diary of a Male Whore (2000) and Waiting for Sallah El-Din (2001).
His film Atash won the Fipresci and was screened at Cannes 2004 (Critics’ Week). He also won first prize at the Jerusalem Film Festival 2004, and special jury prize at Arab World Institute in Paris.
Post Residence: Tawfik is working on the adaptation of the book, Returning to Haifa. He is equally writing the script for his second feature project, developed at the Residence, Between Two Women.”