Mahdi Fleifel Movies

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...

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...

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...

A sociological meditation on the different "exits" that young Palestinians choose, in order to cope with life in the refugee camps.

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...

A stranger by the lake with a valuable possession. A journey home after serving time in jail. A friendship evolving from childhood to adulthood....

Deserted landscapes, ancient ruins and abandoned shipwrecks at sea. Elefsina’s archeological sites don’t come close to being as...

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...

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...

“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...

Short comedy about a Palestinian in love.

How long after a breakup can you bare to see your ex with someone new? Especially if that someone is a bald Italian.

45th Parallel focuses on the Haskell Free Library and Opera House—a unique municipal site between the jurisdictions of Canada and the...

A short film by Mahdi Fleifel.

“September 13, 1993: Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin, and Bill Clinton’s handshake on the lawn of the White House after signing the Oslo...