Direction: Mahdi Fleifel
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Mahdi Fleifel. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
A World Not Ours
2012 · Documentary · 93 min. · Lebanon
Direction Mahdi Fleifel
Cast Mahdi Fleifel
Plot An intimate, and often humorous, portrait of three generations of exile in the refugee camp of Ein el-Helweh, in southern Lebanon. Based on a wealth of personal recordings, family archives,...
7.4
44 votes
7.4
44 votes
A Man Returned
2016 · Documentary · 30 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Mahdi Fleifel
Plot Reda is 26 years old. His dreams of escaping the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain El-Helweh ended in failure after three years trapped in Greece. He returned with a heroin...
6.3
37 votes
6.3
37 votes
A Drowning Man (S)
2017 · Movie · 15 min. · Denmark
Direction Mahdi Fleifel
Cast Atef Alshafei · Jalal Qaniry · Thymios Koukios · Rebih El-Saleous
Plot Alone and far from home, The Kid makes his way through a strange city looking for the means to get through his day. Surrounded by predators he is forced to...
5.3
34 votes
5.3
34 votes
To a Land Unknown
2024 · Movie · min. · Greece
Direction Mahdi Fleifel
Plot A Palestinian refugee living on the fringes of society in Athens gets ripped off by a smuggler and sets out to seek revenge.
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I Signed the Petition (S)
2018 · Movie · 10 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Mahdi Fleifel
Plot Immediately after a Palestinian man signs an online petition, he is thrown into a panic-inducing spiral of self-doubt. Over the course of a conversation with an understanding friend, he analyses,...
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3 Logical Exits (S)
2020 · Documentary · 15 min. · Denmark
Direction Mahdi Fleifel
Cast Reda Al-Saleh
Plot A sociological meditation on the different exits that young Palestinians choose, in order to cope with life in the refugee camps.
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