I Signed the Petition
Synopsis
Immediately after a Palestinian man signs an online petition, he is thrown into a panic-inducing spiral of self-doubt. Over the course of a conversation with an understanding friend, he analyses, deconstructs and interprets the meaning of his choice to publicly support the cultural boycott of Israel.
Festivals
PRIX
Best Short Youth Jury
Visions du réel, Switzerland, 2018
Special Mention Main Jury
Visions du réel, Switzerland, 2018
EFA Award
Sarajevo Film Festival, Bosnia, 2018
Signs Award
Signes de Nuit 2018
Tanit d’Argent
Carthage Film Festival 2018
Best Film (Critic’s) & Best Editing
Janela Internacional de Cinema in Recife, 2018
Golden Mikeldi
ZINEBI: Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao, 2018
IDFA Best Short Documentary Award
IDFA, 2018
SÉLECTIONS
Visions du Réel, Nyon, Suisse, 2018
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Toronto, Canada, 2018
Encuentros del Otro Cine EDOC , Quito, Ecuador, 2018.
Sheffield Doc/Fest, UK, 2018.
Guanajuato International Film Festival, Mexico, 2018.
DokuFest - International Doc & Short Film Festival, Kosovo, 2018.
Sarajevo Film Festival, Bosnie-Herzégovine, 2018.
FESTCURTASBH - Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival, Brazil, 2018.
Pancevo Film Festival, Belgrade, Serbia, 2018.
Camden International Film Festival, USA, 2018.
Lebanese Film Festival, Beirut, Liban, 2018.
Toronto Palestine Film Festival, Canada, 2018.
Pacific Meridian International Film Festival, Vladivostok, Russia, 2018.
Signes de Nuit, Paris, France, 2018.
Festival des Libertés, Belgium, 2018.
Valladolid International Film Festival, Spain, 2018.
Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Sweden, 2018.
Other Israel Film Festival, New York, USA, 2018.
Festival dei Popoli, Florence, Italy, 2018.
Janela Internacional de Cinema in Recife, Brazil 2018.
RIDM - Rencontres internationales du documentaire à Montréal, Canada, 2018.
Cork Film Festival, Ireland, 2018.
MedFilm Festival Onlus, Italy, 2018.
JCC Carthage Film Festival, Tunisia, 2018.
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Switzerland, 2018.
Zinebi - Bilbao International Festival of Documentary and Short Films, Spain, 2018.
IDFA - International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2018.
The Nightlight Screening, Basel, Switzerland, 2018.
ReFrame Film Festival, Ontario, Canada, 2019.
DocPoint Tallin, Helsinki, Finland, 2019.
Videonale, Berlin, Germany, 2019.
True/False, Columbia, USA, 2019.
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Greece, 2019.
Portland Film Festival, USA, 2019.
Glasgow Short Film Festival, UK, 2019.
Regensburg Short Film Week, Germany, 2019.
One World Romania, Romania, 2019.
Al Ard Film Festival, Cagliari, Italy, 2019.
Vilnius Film Fest, Lithuania, 2019.
Les Rencontres d'Aflam, France, 2019.
ALFILM - Arab Film Festival Berlin, Germany 2019.
Cairo Cinema Days, Egypt, 2019.
Images Festival, Toronto, Canada, 2019.
Panorama cinéma du Maghreb et du Moyen-Orient, France, 2019.
Kiev International Short Film Festival, Ukraine, 2019.
International Film Festival of Uruguay, Uruguay,2019.
Subversive Festival, Zagreb, Croatia, 2019.
Indie Lisboa, Portugal, 2019.
Festival Cine-Palestine, France, 2019
Zeitimpuls shortfilm, Vienna, Austria, 2019.
Melbourne Documentary Film Festival, Australia, 2019.
AsterFest International Film Festival (Strumica), Macedonia, 2019.
Concorto Film Festival, Italie, 2019.
VIFF - Vancouver International Film Festival, Canada, 2019.
Black Canvas Contemporary Film Festival, Mexico, 2019.
WNDX, Winnipeg, Canada, 2019.
Unseen Cavtat, Croatia, 2019.
Bucharest Experimental Fim Festival, Romania, 2019.
Lublin Film Festival, Poland, 2019.
Director: Mahdi Fleilfel
Script: Mahdi Fleifel
Cast: Mahdi and Faris
DOP: Mahdi Fleifel
Sound design: Dario Swade
Editing: Michael Aaglund
Production: Patrick Campbell (Nakba Movies)
Version
English
Format
1:85, Stereo
DCP, Pro Res, H264
Born in Dubai, Mahdi Fleifel lives and works between Denmark, England and Greece. A graduate of the British National Film & Television School, he studied Fiction Directing under Stephen Frears and Pawel Pawlikowski. In 2010 he founded the London based production company Nakba FilmWorks. Fleifel's critically acclaimed debut feature, A WORLD NOT OURS, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and received over 30 awards, including the Berlinale Peace Prize, the Edinburgh, Yamagata and DOC:NYC Grand Jury Prizes. He was named Best New Nordic Voice at Nordisk Panorama and received the New Talent Award at CPH:DOX. In 2016 Fleifel won a Silver Bear for A MAN RETURNED which was also nominated for the European Film Awards the same year. His follow up, A DROWNING MAN, was selected in the Official Competition at Cannes and later nominated for a BAFTA.I SIGNED THE PETITION won Best Documentary Short at IDFA and was nominated for the 2018 European Film Awards. 3 LOGICAL EXITS premiered in the 2020 Tiger Shorts Competition at IFF Rotterdam. I SIGNED THE PETITION is available on the Criterion Channel, and the rest of the works are available on Netflix.
