TOA LAND UNKNOWN
Type: dramatic ✦✦✦
Direction: Mahdi Fleifel. With Mahmood Bakri, Aram Sabbah, Aggeliki Papoulia, Manal Awad
Reda and Chatila are cousins, Palestinian refugees in Lebanon (the second bears the name of a sadly famous refugee camp).
Driven by an unachievable dream – to reach Germany and open a restaurant – they are only halfway through the journey, stranded in Athens, without the means to obtain a passport and forced to live by subterfuge.
A scene from “To a Land Unknown”
Fleifel, born in 1979, a Palestinian who emigrated to Denmark, opens the film with a quote from Edward Said, «The destiny of the Palestinians is to end up in an unexpected and distant place», making his protagonists bad boys far removed from any sugar-coated reading of migration and describes the Greek capital as a no-man’s land, where the fate of foreigners and inhabitants expelled from the system ends up becoming confused. Worth seeing.
LEGEND
✦ modest
✦✦ good
✦✦✦ excellent
✦✦✦✦ masterpiece
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