Mahdi Fleifel
Film Director
Mahdi Fleifel is a Danish-Palestinian filmmaker whose work explores exile, identity, and lived experience under displacement. His latest feature, To a Land Unknown, premiered at Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes 2024, earning critical acclaim, a Gotham Award nomination for Best Breakthrough Director, over 30 awards, and more than 100 festival screenings worldwide. His debut feature A World Not Ours premiered at TIFF and won 34 awards, including the Berlinale Peace Prize and Grand Jury Prizes at Yamagata and DOC:NYC.