Education: 1971 - 1976 INSAS film school Brussels
Diploma in theatre, radio and television
Michel Khleifi was born in Nazareth in the north side of Palestine. He studied theatre at INSAS in Brussels where he had emigrated in 1971. He has directed and produced several documentary and feature films and has received several prestigious awards including the International Critics' Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and the Golden Shell at San Sebastian in 1987 for his film Wedding in Galilee.
1980 - Fertile Memory, Full-length documentary film, 16mm
1985 - Maaloul celebrates its destruction, 30' documentary
1986 - Wedding in Galilee, 110', Full-length feature film
1990 - Canticle of the Stones, 100', Full-length feature film
1992 - Ordre du Jour, 115', Full-length feature film
1994/5 - Tale Of The Three Jewel , 105', Full-length feature film
1995 - Forbidden Marriages in the Holy Land, 66 minute documentary
2003 - Route 181 - Fragments of a Journey to Palestine and Israel, 270 minute documentary
Amal, my star, a feature-length screenplay based on the life of Asmahan.
Sous l'Ombre du Ciel, a feature-length political thriller, currently being completed for Arte,
the French-German cultural channel, on the theme of Jerusalem.