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To A Land Unknown

Wed, Jul 9, 2025
Screened in Cannes at Director’s Fortnight and Toronto International Film Festival in 2024
    Part of
  • Contemporary Arab Cinema
  • and
  • BAM Film 2025
Directed by Mahdi Fleifel (2024)
With Mahmoud Bakri, Aram Sabbah, Angeliki Papoulia, Mohammad Alsurafa, Monzer Reyahnah, Mouataz Alshaltouh, Mohammad Ghassan
Palestinian cousins Chatila and Reda are saving to pay for fake passports to get out of Athens. 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 in an effort to get out of their hopeless environment before it is too late.

UPCOMING Screenings

      RUNNING TIME

      106min

      VENUE

      Peter Jay Sharp Building
      BAM Rose Cinemas

      FORMAT

      DCP

      LANGUAGE

      In Arabic and Greek with English subtitles

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