After enjoying greater than 100 festivals beginning at Cannes, Mahdi Fleifel’s acclaimed refugee drama “To a Land Unknown” from Palestine is lastly coming to theaters from Watermelon Footage. IndieWire completely debuts the trailer for “To a Land Unknown” under.
The movie follows Chatila (Mahmood Bakri) and Reda (Aram Sabbah), cousins and refugees stranded in Athens and making an attempt to achieve Germany. To flee Greece, they hatch a plan to pose as smugglers taking hostages, with dire penalties for his or her friendship. “It’s particularly transferring to me, in these unbelievable occasions, to current a Palestinian movie at Cannes. As Palestinians, we problem media stereotypes, however extra importantly, we defy invisibility, a wrestle we’ve confronted for the reason that starting. Our tales are wanted now greater than ever,” Fleifel, born in Dubai from Palestinian mother and father however raised in Denmark, mentioned asserting the film. That is Fleifel’s first narrative characteristic after the acclaimed documentary “A World Not Ours” premiered at TIFF greater than a decade in the past.
Extra on the movie from the official synopsis: “The movie tells the story of Chatila and Reda, two Palestinian cousins and finest associates who’re saving to pay for faux passports to get out of of Athens. When Reda loses their hard-earned money to his drug dependancy, Chatila hatches an excessive plan, which includes them posing as smugglers and taking hostages in an effort to get him and his finest buddy out of their hopeless surroundings earlier than it’s too late.”
IndieWire praised “To a Land Unknown” in an A- overview out of the 2024 Administrators’ Fortnight at Cannes, with Sophie Monks Kaufman writing, “‘To a Land Unknown’ is a tour-de-force of empathic storytelling, with its style narrative bursting with an overabundance of humanity. The surprising, far-away place that Mentioned references is expressed totally, as each a geographical actuality and a soul in exile.”
“To a Land Unknown” opens in theaters on Friday, July 11. Try the movie’s first trailer, an IndieWire unique, under.
