Ehlail, son of a Palestinian father and German mother, became as teenager a punk[1] and worked for about 10 years as body piercer.

[3] Together with Matthias Lange Ehlail found the first German 'Punkfightclub', the Sabotakt Boxparty, a punk and martial arts event which toured through Europe.

starring Ben Becker, Martin Semmelrogge, Ralf Richter, Stipe Erceg, Claude-Oliver Rudolph, Helge Schneider and Uwe Fellensiek.

The film cast included Mario Adorf, Moritz Bleibtreu and Fabian Busch[5][6] and was selected into the competition at the 'Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis' in 2011.

[7] In 2011 and 2012 the documentaries Alles in Allem about a tour of the electro band Egotronic and GLAUBENSKRIEGER about the annual Internationalen Soldatenwallfahrt to Lourdes were produced by Ehlail.