Mahdi Fleifel is a Palestinian filmmaker and visual artist based in London. He was born in Dubai, raised in the Ain El-Helweh refugee camp in Lebanon and later in the suburbs of Elsinore, Denmark. He graduated from the British National Film and Television School in 2009. His short films have screened at more than a hundred festivals around the world and have won many best film awards. A World Not Ours is his first feature film.

Accolades

Patrick Campbell and Mahdi Fleifel
Best Documentary Feature Film, 2013

A World Not Ours (Alam Laysa Lana)

Best Documentary Feature Film, 2013

A World Not Ours (Alam Laysa Lana)

A World Not Ours is an intimate portrait of three generations of exile in a refugee camp in southern Lebanon. Based on a wealth of personal…

More Details

Films

A World Not Ours

A World Not Ours (Alam Laysa Lana)

Lebanon, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Palestine, Denmark

A World Not Ours (Alam Laysa Lana)

A World Not Ours is an intimate portrait of three generations of exile in a refugee camp in southern Lebanon. Based on a wealth of…

More Details

The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and present. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.

  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.