To a Land Unknown

Mahdi Fleifel

Fiction,

105'

2025

Tickets

27/03

Thu.

21:45

Cinemes Girona, BCN

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.

Migration and RefugePalestineSocial exclusion

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

Festivals

Migration and RefugePalestineSocial exclusion

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

Runtime

105'

Production

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

Idioma

Arabic, Greek, English

Subtitles

Catalan

Mahdi Fleifel

Filmography

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

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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