To A Land Unknown15

Directed by Mahdi Fleifel | Greece/Palestine | 2025 | 1h 46m | Arabic w/ English subtitles | Starring Angeliki Papoulia, Manal Awad, Mahmoud Bakri, Aram Sabbah, Mohammad Ghassan

After escaping a camp in Lebanon, two Palestinian cousins find themselves stranded in Athens, trapped in a precarious underground existence. Desperate to reach Germany, they are drawn into a relentless cycle of begging, borrowing, and scheming to afford fake passports. This modern neorealist tale offers a raw and compassionate portrayal of refugee life, capturing both its harsh realities and the profound tension of survival.

Reviews

‘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

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After escaping a camp in Lebanon, two Palestinian cousins find themselves stranded in Athens, scheming as they save up for fake passports. Mahdi Fleifel’s feature debut is a tense neorealist drama offering a raw and compassionate portrayal of refugee life.

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