Director
Michel Khleifi
Born 1950 · Nazareth, Israel
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
Directed
Tale of the Three Jewels
Director · 1995
Route 181: Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel
Director · 2004
Wedding in Galilee
Director · 1987
Fertile Memory
Director · 1981
Ma'loul Celebrates Its Destruction
Director · 1984
Canticle of Stones
Director · 1990
Forbidden Marriages in the Holy Land
Director · 1995
L'ordre du jour
Director · 1993
Zindeeq
Director · 2009
