To a Land Unknown

Mahdi Fleifel

GB, QA, PS, FR, GR, NL, DE, SA, 2024. Fic., 105'

Tickets

27/03

Thu.

21:45

Cinemes Girona, BCN

To a Land Unknown

Synopsis

Chatila and Reda, two Palestinian cousins, commit petty theft so they can buy fake passports to leave Athens. When Reda loses the money he has saved due to his drug addiction, Chatila devises an extreme plan, which involves them posing as smugglers and taking hostages in an effort to get out of their desperate situation.

Festivals

– CineCoPro Award at Munich Film Festival 2024, Germany
– Fischer Audience Award at Thessaloniki Film Festival 2024, Greece
– San Sebastián International Film Festival 2024, Spain
– Cannes Quinzaine 2024, France
– Sarajevo Film Festival 2024, Bosnia and Herzegovina
– Toronto International Film Festival 2024, Canada

Credits

Original title

To a Land Unknown

Genre

Fiction

Director

Mahdi Fleifel

Country

United Kingdom, Qatar, Palestine, France, Greece, Netherlands, Germany, Saudi Arabia

Year

2024

Duration

105'

Production

Geoff Arbourne (Inside Out Films), Mahdi Fleifel (Nakba Filmworks)

Subtitles

Catalan

Idioma

Arabic, Greek, English

Topic

Migration and Refuge, Palestine, Social exclusion

Mahdi Fleifel

Mahdi Fleifel is a Palestinian-Danish director who graduated from NFTS in the UK. In 2012, his first feature-length documentary, A World Not Ours, premiered at TIFF and won around thirty awards (Berlinale, CPH:DOX, Yamagata, DOC:NYC). He took part in the Cinéfondation in 2013, and subsequently directed several short films: “A Man Returned” (Silver Bear 2016 EFA nomination), “A Drowning Man” (Cannes, Bafta nominated), and “I Signed The Petition” (IDFA award and EFA nomination).

Filmography

– A World Not Ours (2012)
– A Man Returned (2016)
– A Drowning Man (2017)
– I Signed The Petition (2018)

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