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‘To A Land Unknown’ Review: Sympathetic Story Of Stranded Palestinian Refugees Avoids Turning Them Into Heroes – Cannes Film Festival
Read a review of ‘To a Land Unknown’ from Cannes Film Festival. It's a sympathetic story of stranded Palestinian refugees that avoids turning them into heroes.
Mahdi Fleifel, noted Iraqi-Danish director of documentaries including the multiple award-winning A World Not Ours, brings a fact-finder’s unflinching eye to his first feature, To a Land Unknown. The hostel is a cage for random males, which means that Chatila will turn for help to the only woman he knows – a drunken good-time girl called Tatiana (Angelinki Papoulia) who sometimes hangs out in their park – when he takes an orphaned Turkish boy he meets in the street under his wing. Title: To a Land Unknown Festival: Cannes (Directors’ Fortnight) Director: Mahdi Fleifel Screenwriter: Fyzal Boulifa, Mahdi Fleifel, Jason McColgan Cast: Mahmood Bakri, Aram Sabbah, Angeliki Papoulia, Mohammad Alsurafa, Mouataz Alshaltouh Sales agent: Salaud Morisset (international), Eurozoom (France) Running time: 1 hr 43 min
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