Director
Michel Khleifi
75 years · Nazareth, Israel · 12 films
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
Best known for
Filmography 12
Une vie contre l'oubli
2016 · Actor
Zindeeq
2009 · Director
Route 181: Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel
2004 · Himself, Director
Tale of the Three Jewels
1995 · Director, Producer
Forbidden Marriages in the Holy Land
1995 · Director
On Cineverse
L'ordre du jour
1993 · Director
Canticle of Stones
1990 · Director, Writer
Wedding in Galilee
1987 · Director, Producer
On Hoopla
Trio
1987 · Self
Arab Camera
1987 · Self
Ma'loul Celebrates Its Destruction
1984 · Director
Fertile Memory
1981 · Director, Writer