In cinemas from 14 February
To a Land Unknown
UK, Palestine, France, Greece, Netherlands, Germany, Qatar, Saudi Arabia 2024
Dir: Mahdi Fleifel
Cast: Mahmood Bakri, Aram Sabbagh, Angeliki Papoulia, Mohammad Alsurafa
Arabic, Greek, English /105m
In cinemas from 14 February 2025
The stakes couldn't be higher for displaced Palestinian refugees Chatila and Reda in this knife-edge drama. The cousins are saving to pay for fake passports to get out of Athens, but when Reda loses their hard-earned cash to his drug addiction, Chatila hatches an extreme plan to pose as smugglers in an attempt to get them out of their desperate situation before it is too late.
Winner: Best Film, World Cinema Competition, Galway Film Fleadh
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Hertfordshire Borderlines Film Festival (Eden Court) - from 28 February 2025
London London Migration Film Festival (Genesis Cinema) + Q&A with director - 25 November
London London Palestine Film Festival (Barbican) + Q&A with director Mahdi Fleifel - 18 November 2024
London London Palestine Film Festival (Curzon Soho) + Q&A with director Mahdi Fleifel - 19 November 2024
London London Palestine Film Festival (Barbican) - 21 November 2024More screenings to be announced
“Mahdi Fleifel delivers a confident, fully-realized drama… a film crafted with tremendous empathy”
— Variety
“A tour-de-force of empathic storytelling, with its genre narrative bursting with an overabundance of humanity”
— IndieWire
“Crafted with painstaking care, and features two strong lead performances that are thoughtfully translated to the screen by an empathetic lens”
— Screen International