A MAN RETURNED

Synopsis

UK/Denmark/Netherlands, 2015, 30 min

Reda is 26 years old. His dreams of escaping the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain El-Helweh ended in failure after three years trapped in Greece. He returned with a heroin addiction to life in a camp being torn apart by internal strife and the encroachment of war from Syria. Against all odds he decides to marry his childhood sweetheart; a love story, bittersweet as the camp itself.

Director Biography

Mahdi Fleifel is a Danish/Palestinian filmmaker based in Amsterdam. He graduated from the UK National Film and Television School in 2009. His debut feature, ‘A World Not Ours’, was widely acclaimed, earning over thirty awards including prizes at the Berlinale, the Edinburgh Film Festival and DOC NYC.