To a Land Unknown (English subtitles)

A profound social statement on the heartbreak and desolation of exile wrapped up in the tropes of a gripping crime thriller, documentarian Mahdi Fleifel’s first fiction feature gives us two Palestinian exiles, Chatila (Mahmood Bakri) and Reda (Aram Sabbagh), on the streets of Athens, who are willing to do almost anything to secure the passports that will get them and their families to Germany. 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…

‘Arrestingly plotted and bracingly acted, this story about the biting hardships faced by refugees who have left the danger of their homeland only to be left nationless could hardly be more relevant.’ – Robert Daniels, Screen. ‘To a Land Unknown is a tour-de-force of empathic storytelling, with its genre narrative bursting with an overabundance of humanity.’ – Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire. Winner of Best Film at the Galway Film Fleadh and the Audience Award at the Taormina International Film Festival.

THIS SCREENING WILL HAVE ENGLISH SUBTITLES