To A Land Unknown

2024 | NR | France, Greece, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom | Mahdi Fleifel | Arabic, English, Greek | 106 minutes

To A Land Unknown – Ottwa Premiere screenings on July 19, 20, 22, 23, 24!

Advance tickets now available for To A Land Unknown!

A Palestinian refugee living on the fringes of society in Athens gets ripped off by a smuggler and sets out to seek revenge.
Arabic, Greek with English subtitles.

Mediterrane Film Festival: Jury’s Choice award winner!
Helsinki International Film Festival: Best Feature Film award winner!
Taormina International Film Festival: Audience Award winner!

“A tour-de-force of empathic storytelling.” (IndieWire)

“An excellent Palestinian drama…a festival favourite” (Irish Independent)

“It’s instantly engrossing storytelling done to stylish standards” (The Arts Desk)

“a bril­liant­ly act­ed tale of moral complexity” (Little White Lies)

*Please take note that doors open 30 minutes before showtimes. We encourage people to arrive early. We have a small box office, a small candy bar, and a single-screen cinema, meaning that when most of an audience shows up a few minutes before showtime, it causes a bottleneck. If possible, we appreciate you arriving a little bit early to pick out your seat and get your popcorn. Thanks for your help!

The stakes couldn't be higher for displaced Palestinian refugees Chatila and Reda in this knife-edge drama. The cousins are saving to pay for fake passports to get out of Athens, but when Reda loses their hard-earned cash to his drug addiction, Chatila hatches an extreme plan to pose as smugglers in an attempt to get them out of their desperate situation before it is too late.
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