Michel Khleifi

Born: 1950-11-03

Michel Khleifi (Arabic: ميشيل خليفي‎}, born in 1950 in Nazareth, is a Palestinian film writer, director and producer, presently based in Belgium. Khleifi emigrated to Belgium in 1970, where he studied television and theatre directing at the Institut National Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle (INSAS). After graduating from INSAS, he worked in Belgium television before turning to making his own films. He has directed and produced several documentary and feature films. He has received several awards, including the International Critics’ Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, the Golden Shell at San Sebastián International Film Festival and the André Cavens Award in 1987 for his film Wedding in Galilee. Khleifi currently teaches at INSAS

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Arab Camera

as Self
Released: 1987-01-02

Focusing on key Arab films produced in the last 20 years. Férid Boughedir traces the development...

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Trio

as Self
Released: 1987-04-02

Trio is a cinematic series of filmed portraits that shows, in a single large, fixed and silent...

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Route 181: Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel

as Himself
Released: 2004-05-06

Route 181 is the epic record of a road trip undertaken in the summer of 2002 by two filmmakers,...

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