Film Days of the Mediterranean: TO A LAND UNKNOWN

38th Film Days of the Mediterranean 22.1. – 2.2.2025 Karlstorkino, Marlene-Dietrich-Platz 3, 69126 Heidelberg, admission €10, reduced €7.50, members Medienforum €6, advance ticket sales online: www.filmtage-mittelmeer.de or at the Karlstorkino (one hour before the first screening until the last film) or at the Montpellier-Haus (during opening hours). Chatila and Reda are two Palestinian cousins living as refugees in Athens. Together they try to get together a large sum of money using many tricks in order to buy fake passports. They are supposed to bring them to Germany, where they want to build a new life for themselves. But the search for a better future leads them to overstep their personal boundaries and leave a part of themselves behind. TO A LAND UNKNOWN is the winner of the main prize at Cinémed 2024.

Palestine, United Kingdom, Greece, Denmark, Netherlands, France, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Qatar 2024

Director: Mahdi Fleifel

Cast: Mahmood Bakri, Arama Sabbah, Mohammad Alsurafa, Angeliki Papoulia, Mouataz Alshaltouh

105 min. | Arabic. OmeU

Mahdi Fleifel is a Palestinian-Danish director who graduated from the NFTS in the UK. His first feature-length documentary A WORLD NOT OURS premiered at TIFF in 2012 and received around 30 awards, including at the Berlinale. He took part in the Cinéfondation in 2013 and subsequently directed numerous short films.