Michel Khleifi

Regisseur, Schrijver, Producer, Redacteur, Acteur

3 november 1950 (75 years)
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

Known For

  • Wedding in Galilee
    Wedding in Galilee1987
  • The Tale of the Three Lost Jewels
    The Tale of the Three Lost Jewels1995
  • Route 181: Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel
    Route 181: Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel2003
  • Fertile Memory
    Fertile Memory1981
  • Zindeeq
    Zindeeq2009
  • Canticle of the Stones
    Canticle of the Stones1990
  • Ma'loul Celebrates its Destruction
    Ma'loul Celebrates its Destruction1984
  • Forbidden Marriages in the Holy Land
    Forbidden Marriages in the Holy Land1995