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Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Film ‘To a Land Unknown’ Picked Up by Salaud Morisset (EXCLUSIVE)
Salaud Morisset has picked up sales duties on Mahdi Fleifel's 'To a Land Unknown,' which world premieres in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes.
“To a Land Unknown” tells the story of the desperate attempts of two Palestinian cousins stranded in Athens to find a way to reach Germany. When Reda loses their hard-earned cash to his drug addiction, Chatila hatches an extreme plan, which involves them posing as smugglers and taking hostages in an effort to get him and his best friend out of their hopeless environment before it is too late. “To a Land Unknown” is a European co-production between Geoff Arbourne of the U.K.’s Inside Out Films and Fleifel’s Nakba Filmworks, Morisset for France and Germany’s Salaud Morisset, Maria Drandaki for Greece’s Homemade Films, and Layla Meijman and Maarten van der Ven for the Netherlands’ Studio Ruba.
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