Born in Dubai, Mahdi Fleifel lives and works between Denmark, England and Greece. A graduate of the National Film & Television School in the United Kingdom, he studied fiction directing under Stephen Frears and Pawel Pawlikowski. In 2010, he founded the London-based production company Nakba FilmWorks. His feature-length documentary A World Not Ours (2012) premiered at TIFF and received over 30 awards. He was named Best New Nordic Voice at Nordisk Panorama, won the New Talent Award at CPH:DOX, and the grand prizes at DOC:NYC, Yamagata and Edinburgh. He won the Silver Bear at the Berlinale for A Man Returned (2016) and the Best Documentary Short Award at IDFA for I Signed the Petition (2018). Both films were nominated for the European Film Awards. 3 Logical Exits (2020) premiered in the Tiger Competition at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. That same year, the Camden International Film Festival held the first retrospective of his entire collection. I Signed the Petition is currently available on the Criterion Channel website, and the rest of his works are on Netflix.