After playing more than 100 festivals starting with Cannes, Mahdi Fleifel’s acclaimed refugee drama ”To an unknown country“From Palestine, finally comes to theaters from watermelon images. IndieWire debuts exclusively the trailer for”To an unknown country“Below.
The film Follows Chatila (Mahmood Bakri) and Red (Aram Sabbah), cousins and refugees stranded in Athens and try to reach Germany. To escape Greece, they hatch a plan to pose as a smugglers who are hostage, with difficult consequences for their friendship. “It is especially to move to me, in these incredible times, to present a Palestinian film in Cannes. As Palestinians, we challenge media reiders, but even more important, we defy invisibility, a struggle we have met since the beginning. Our stories are now needed more than ever,” Fleifel, born in Dubar. This is Fleifel’s first narrative function after the acclaimed documentary “A World Not Ours” premiered at TIFF more than a decade ago.
More on the movie from the official synopsis: “The movie Tells the story of chatila and find, Two Palestinian cousins and best friends who are saving to pay for fake passports to get out of athes. When find loses the hard-earled Cash to his Drug Addiction Smuggler’s and Taking Hostages in Effort To Get Him and His Best Friend Out of their Hopeless Environment Before IT IS TOO LUST.
Indieview praised “To an unknown country” in an A-Review Of the 2024 directors two weeks in Cannes, with Sophie Monks Kaufman who writes, “” to a country unknown “is a tour-de -force of empathetic story, with its genre story that bursts with an abundance of humanity. The unexpected, far-reaching place as the said references are expressed, as a geographical work.
“To an unknown country” opens in theaters on Friday, July 11. Check out the movie’s first trailer, an indieview exclusive, below.
