Michel Khleifi

Directing · b. 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.

Full biography

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

Known for

6.2

Wedding in Galilee

1987 · Director

7.4

Tale of the Three Jewels

1995 · Director

7.0

Fertile Memory

1981 · Director

8.0

Route 181: Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel

2004 · Director

6.5

Canticle of Stones

1990 · Director

3.7

L'ordre du jour

1993 · Director

8.0

Ma'loul Celebrates Its Destruction

1984 · Director

6.0

Forbidden Marriages in the Holy Land

1995 · Director

Zindeeq

2009 · Director

Directed

Zindeeq

2009 · Director

8.0

Route 181: Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel

2004 · Director

7.4

Tale of the Three Jewels

1995 · Director

6.0

Forbidden Marriages in the Holy Land

1995 · Director

3.7

L'ordre du jour

1993 · Director

6.5

Canticle of Stones

1990 · Director

6.2

Wedding in Galilee

1987 · Director

8.0

Ma'loul Celebrates Its Destruction

1984 · Director

7.0

Fertile Memory

1981 · Director

Acting

Une vie contre l'oubli

2016