Mahdi Fleifel is a Danish-Palestinian film director who graduated in 2009 from the UK National Film & TV School. In 2010 he set up the London-based production company Nakba FilmWorks with Irish producer Patrick Campbell.
His debut feature, A World Not Ours (2012), premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and picked up over 30 awards, including the Peace Film Prize at the 2013 Berlinale and the Edinburgh, Yamagata and DOC:NYC Grand Jury Prizes.
In 2016 he won the Silver Bear at the Berlinale with A Man Returned. His most recent film, A Drowning Man, was selected for the official competition at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.

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 a war from Syria.
Against all odds he decides to marry his childhood sweetheart; a love story,bittersweet as the camp itself.