Flashes
Xenos
Directors
Mahdi Fleifel
Producers
Patrick Campbell
Cinematographers
Mahdi Fleifel
Editors
Michael Aaglund
Sound
Gunnar Óskarsson
Contact
Nakba FilmWorks
London, UK
+44 7 852840462
[email protected]
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2013
United Kingdom, Denmark, Greece
12 min
Color
In 2010, Palestinian Abu Eyad flees with others from the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, Ain el-Helweh. The destination they long to reach is Europe. Aided by smugglers, they flee across Syria and Turkey to Greece, a place of projected hopes and paradise rolled into one. But Greece is stuck in a serious economic, political and social crisis and their dreams are soon stifled by a brutal reality...
Director
Born in Dubai in 1979, Mahdi Fleifel was raised in Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp in Lebanon and later in the suburbs of Elsinore in Denmark. In 2009,Fleifel graduated from the National Film and Television School in London. His first-yearfilm, ARAFA & I, screened at festivals around the world and won numerous awards.
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