To a Land Unknown (15) (Borderlines Film Festival)

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Event Description

DIRECTOR: Mahdi Fleifel
STARRING: Mahmood Bakri, Aram Sabbah, Angeliki Papoulia
UK/PALESTINE/FRANCE/GREECE/NETHERLANDS/GERMANY/QATAR/ SAUDI ARABIA, 2024,
1 HOUR 45 MINUTES,
ARABIC/GREEK/ENGLISH + ENGLISH SUBTITLES

Fleifel’s first feature about two Palestinian refugees stranded in Athens is an intense thriller with high moral stakes.

Cousins Chatila and Reda dream of opening a café in Germany. For now, they’re reduced to begging, borrowing and grifting their way through the city streets to raise money for fake passports. But when Reda loses their stash to his drug addiction, it barrels them towards a knife-edge scheme to make one big score and get out.

Painting refugees as neither victims, martyrs nor saints, this modern neorealist tale that recalls Bicycle Thieves and Midnight Cowboy is a powerful exercise in wringing extreme tension from the most human of impulses: to live in safety, to bring comfort to ourselves and our families.

Show Times
*Film starts at advertised time*
Sunday 2nd March at 4.30pm – STUDIO ONE
Wednesday 5th March at 4.30pm – CINEMA
Thursday 6th March at 1.15pm – STUDIO ONE

Sunday 2 March 2025

4:30pm

Malvern Theatres

Location

Malvern Theatres

WR14 3HB

01684 892277

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