Mahdi Fleifel — Playwright (5)

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To a Land Unknown (2024)
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★ 6.6 7 ratings
other title: 前往未知之地 / 낯선 곳을 향해 …
TO A LAND UNKNOWN is a film based on a testimony shared with writer/director Mahdi Fleifel a few years ago. It is the story of how as a human being on the run, and without rights, one is forced into a life where humanity is completely dismantled. It's a film that depicts how reality is often stranger than fiction. 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 addiction, Chatila hatches an extreme plan, which involves them posing as smugglers and taking hostages in an effort to get him and his best friend out of their hopeless environment before it is too late.

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A World Not Ours (2014)
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other title: 不是我们的世界 / عالم ليس لنا
Imbued with nostalgia and striking a wide range of emotional notes, filmmaker Mahdi Fleifel travels to the Lebanese refugee camp of Ain El Helweh to explore how the camp's displaced people use the World Cup series to articulate their own ideas of home, community, victory and hope.

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A Drowning Man (2017)
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Mahdi Fleifel actor: Atef Alshafei / Jalal Qaniry
other title: 一个溺水的人
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 make compromises merely to survive, his life of exile grows one day longer.