To a Land Unknown

Vers un pays inconnu

Quinzaine 2024 | Feature film | 105 min | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, France, Germany, Greece, Netherlands, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Palestine

World premiere

After fleeing a camp in Lebanon, two Palestinian cousins, are stranded in Athens, living in an underground limbo. Desperately seeking a way to reach Germany, they find themselves caught in an uncontrollable spiral. Nourished by New York cinema (notably Midnight Cowboy), To a Land Unknown races along like an edgy thriller, tragic but stripped back. A compelling, uncompromising and nuanced look at the living conditions of migrants.

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 gathered around thirty awards (Berlinale, CPH:DOX, Yamagata, DOC:NYC). He took part in the Cinéfondation in 2013, and subsequently directed several short films.

Artistic & technical sheet

With

Mahmood Bakri (Chatila), Aram Sabbagh (Reda), Mohammad Alsurafa (Malik), Angeliki Papoulia (Tatiana), Mouataz Alshalton (Abu Love), Mohammad Ghassan (Yasser), Monzer Reyahnah (Marwan).

Screenplay

Mahdi Fleifel, Fyzal Boulifa, Jason McColgan

Sound

Steve Bond, Martin Hernandez

Music

Nadah El Shazly

Production

Inside Out Films (Royaume-Uni)
Geoff Arbourne
+44 7432 156147
Geoff@Insideoutfilms.Uk
www.Insideoutfilms.Uk

Nakba Filmworks (Royaume-Uni)
Mahdi Fleifel
mahdi@nakbafilmworks.com

Foreign Sales

Salaud Morisset
+33 6 60 42 32 32
festival@salaudmorisset.com
www.salaudmorisset.com

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