Mahdi Fleifel Movies
- 2024
To a Land Unknown
To a Land Unknown82024HD
Chatila and Reda are saving to pay for fake passports to get out of Athens. But when Reda loses their hard-earned cash to his dangerous drug...
- 2023
The Male Gaze: Risk Appeal
The Male Gaze: Risk Appeal02023HD
A stranger by the lake with a valuable possession. A journey home after serving time in jail. A friendship evolving from childhood to adulthood....
- 2017
A Drowning Man
A Drowning Man4.62017HD
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...
- 2023
Elefsina Notre Amour
Elefsina Notre Amour02023HD
Deserted landscapes, ancient ruins and abandoned shipwrecks at sea. Elefsina’s archeological sites don’t come close to being as...
- 2023
45th Parallel
45th Parallel72023HD
45th Parallel focuses on the Haskell Free Library and Opera House—a unique municipal site between the jurisdictions of Canada and the...
- 2020
3 Logical Exits
3 Logical Exits22020HD
A sociological meditation on the different "exits" that young Palestinians choose, in order to cope with life in the refugee camps.
- 2018
I Signed the Petition
I Signed the Petition6.32018HD
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...
- 2014
A World Not Ours
A World Not Ours82014HD
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...
- 2016
A Man Returned
A Man Returned4.82016HD
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...
- 2014
Suspended Time 'Zaman Muaalaq'
Suspended Time 'Zaman Muaalaq'02014HD
- 2013
Xenos
Xenos4.22013HD
In 2010, Abu Eyad and other young Palestinian men from the Ain el-Helweh refugee camp in Lebanon travelled with smugglers through Syria and Turkey...
- 2013
20 Handshakes for Peace (Suspended Time)
20 Handshakes for Peace (Suspended Time)02013HD
“September 13, 1993: Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin, and Bill Clinton’s handshake on the lawn of the White House after signing the Oslo...
- 1970
The Writer
The Writer01970HD
A short film by Mahdi Fleifel.
- 2017
Kumbh
Kumbh02017HD
“A dream came to me from who knows where having slept as two I awake as one / the other wasn’t there”. Two young men on a blind...
- 2009
4 Weeks
4 Weeks02009HD
How long after a breakup can you bare to see your ex with someone new? Especially if that someone is a bald Italian.
- 2008
Arafat & I
Arafat & I02008HD
Short comedy about a Palestinian in love.