Yahya Alabdallah

Palestinian - Jordanian Independent filmmaker Yahya was born in Libya in 1978, raised in Saudi Arabia, a writer, director, producer and a literary critic with Masters Degrees in literature and master in film from ECAIR Cinema School in Paris. He wrote and directed many shorts, his short "SMS" 2008 participated in the 38th international film festival Rotterdam, Tangier ISFF. His first feature "The Last Friday" 2011 participated in many festivals as Fribourg International film festival 2012 "won the special jury award", Berlinale forum 2012, Dubai International film festival 2011 won three awards (special Jury award, best actor, best music). and won Cinema in Motion at San Sebastian Film Festival 2011. He is working on his second comedy feature film "Me, Myself & Murdoch" Cannes International Film Festival, L'Atelier 2013.