Video from إلى عالم مجهول / To A Land Unknown
Directed by: Mahdi Fleifel
Screening
إلى عالم مجهول / To a Land Unknown
North Park Theatre
Mahdi Fleifel (Dir), 105 minutes, Greece/ Denmark/ United Kingdom/ Netherlands/ Qatar/ Saudi Arabia/ Palestine, Western New York Premiere
In Arabic, English, and Greek w/ English subtitles.
Chatila (Mahmood Bakri) and Reda (Aram Sabbah) are Palestinian refugees living in Athens and are trying to save what little money they can acquire to purchase fake passports so they can move to Germany. When Reda spends all their money on heroin, Chatila is drawn into a high-risk smuggling plot.
Dogtooth's Angeliki Papoulia, Manal Awad, and Mohammad Ghassan also star.
Still from إلى عالم مجهول / To A Land Unknown
Directed by: Mahdi Fleifel
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