To A Land Unknown
Stranded in Athens, two cousins from Palestine, Chatila and Reda, are desperately seeking a way to escape uncertainty and squalor. Chatila dreams of making it to Germany and opening a small café, while Reda, sunk deep in his addiction, makes their path to a better life more difficult. Their petty scams soon turn into dangerous schemes, severely testing their moral boundaries. Mahdi Fleifel, with a firm directorial eye, builds a story of painful realism, with his characters moving between hope and despair. Maintaining a deeply humanist approach, the film speaks of the human need for dignity and living space beyond facile clichés. With a thriller-like tension and a compassionate truth that echoes the language of a soothing neorealism, this is a deeply touching film. In their journey through a daily life marked by their refugee status, its heroes emerge not just as victims of their fate, but as living people struggling against an implacable reality, claiming their existence in a world that seems to have no place for them.
Direction:Mahdi Fleifel
Script:Mahdi Fleifel, Fyzal Boulifa, Jason McColgan
Cinematography:Thodoris Mihopoulos GSC
Editing:Halim Sabbagh
Sound:Steve Bond, Martin Hernandez
Music:Nadah El Shazly
Actors:Mahmood Bakri, Aram Sabbagh, Angeliki Papoulia, Mohammad Alsurafa, Mouataz Alshalton, Mohammad Ghassan, Monzer Reyahnah
Production:Inside Out Films, Nakba Filmworks
Producers:Geoff Arbourne, Mahdi Fleifel
Co-production:Salaud Morisset, Salaud Morisset Deutschland, Homemade Films, Studio Ruba
Co-producers:François Morisset, Maria Drandaki, Layla Meijman, Maarten van der Ven
Costumes:Konstantina Mardiki
Production Design:Ioanna Soulele
Executive producer:Elisa Van Waeyenberge, François De Villers, Frank Barat, Sawsan Asfari
Format:DCP
Color:Color
Production Country:UK, Palestine, France, Greece, The Netherlands, Germany, Qatar, Saudi Arabia
Production Year:2024
Duration:106′
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