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To a Land Unknown (2025)

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Director: Mahdi Fleifel Run Time: 106 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2025

Starring: Angeliki Papoulia, Aram Sabbah, Mahmood Bakri, Mohammad Alsurafa, Monzer Rayahneh

Country: United Kingdom, Greece, Denmark, Netherlands, Palestinian Territories, France, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Qatar
Language: Arabic, English, Greek

About the film:

“The sense of time running out pervades this intensely devastating parable of desperation.”– Roger Ebert.com

Chatila and Reda are saving to pay for fake passports to get out of Athens. But when Reda loses their hard-earned cash to his dangerous drug addiction, Chatila hatches an extreme plan, which involves them posing as smugglers and taking hostages in an effort to get him and his best friend out of their hopeless environment before it is too late.

About the filmmaker:

Mahdi Fleifel is a Danish-Palestinian film director. Often examining themes of social injustice, Fleifel’s films largely convey the struggles of Palestinians in exile.

 

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