MAHDI FLEIFEL’S UPCOMING FEATURE FILM PROJECT SUPPORTED BY THE HUBERT BALS FUND and the NFF

29 Nov 2021

XENOS, the upcoming feature film by Mahdi Fleifel, a co-production of Denmark (Bullitt Film), Greece (Homemade Films) and the Netherlands (Studio Ruba) received support from the joint programme of the Netherlands Film Fund and the Hubert Bals Fund!

Mahdi Fleifel’s debut feature documentary, A World Not Ours (2012), premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and picked up over 30 awards, including the Peace Film Prize and the Panorama Audience Award at the 2013 Berlinale and the Edinburgh, Yamagata and DOC:NYC Grand Jury Prizes. Mahdi’s 2016 short film, A Man Returned, won the Silver Bear and the European Film Nomination at the Berlinale and his latest short film, A Drowning Man, a co-production of Homemade Films, formed part of the Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival 2017 and was nominated for a BAFTA award.