To a Land Unknown

To a Land Unknown


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.


World premiere at Director’s Fortnight 2024

Cannes Film Festival
2024 | Official Selection: Directors' Fortnight

Toronto International Film Festival
2024 | Official Selection

San Sebastián International Film Festival
2024 | Official Selection

BFI London Film Festival
2024 | Official Selection

AFI Fest
2024 | Official Selection

Vancouver International Film Festival
2024 | Official Selection

Chicago International Film Festival
2024 | Official Selection

Festival du Nouveau Cinéma
2024 | Official Selection

Ghent Film Festival
2024 | Official Selection

Melbourne International Film Festival
2024 | Official Selection

Munich Film Festival
2024 | Winner: CineCoPro Award

Helsinki International Film Festival - Love & Anarchy
2024 | Official Selection

Sarajevo Film Festival
2024 | Official Selection

Shanghai International Film Festival
2024 | Official Selection

Calgary International Film Festival
2024 | Official Selection

New Horizons International Film Festival
2024 | Official Selection

Galway Film Fleadh
2024 | Official Selection

New Zealand International Film Festival
2024 | Official Selection

Cinefest Sudbury International Film Festival
2024 | Official Selection
Hamptons International Film Festival
2024 | Official Selection

Leiden International Film Festival
2024 | Official Selection

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

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

Photography
Thodoris Mihopoulos GSC

Editing
Halim Sabbah

Production design
Ioanna Soulele

Production
Inside Out Films (Royaume-Uni)
Geoff Arbourne

Nakba Filmworks (Royaume-Uni)
Mahdi Fleifel
Coproduction
Salaud Morisset (France)
Salaud Morisset Deutschland (Allemagne)
François Morisset

Homemade Films (Grèce)
Maria Drandaki

Studio Ruba (Pays-Bas)
Layla Meijman
Maarten van der Ven

ERT (Grèce)
Metafora Production (Qatar)
The Red Sea Fund (Arabie Saoudite)

Trailer:

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.