Tawfik Abu Wael

Tawfik Abu Wael (b. 1976, Um El-Fahem) studied direction at university in Tel Aviv. In 1996-98 he worked in the university archive, and from 1997 to 1999 he taught drama at the Hassan Arafe school in Jaffa. He has made the short films Bread, Hashish and the Moon (1997), I Leave, You Stay (1998), Intellectual in Garbage (1999), Characters (1988) and Diary of a Male Whore (1999). In 2001 he made the hour-long documentary Waiting for Salleh El-din, which attracted attention at the festival in Tel Aviv and at international festivals in Munich, Montecatini and Paris. His latest film, Thirst, was shown in international Critic's Week at the Cannes IFF, where it won FIPRESCI Award.

MFF Karlovy Vary