A scene from the film "To a Land Unknown" by Mahdi Fleifel. (Courtesy of the film's distributor)
Two Palestinian cousins, Chatila (played by Mahmoud Bakri) and Reda (Aram Sabbah), leave a refugee camp in Lebanon, driven by hope for a new, and better, life. Their dream is to open a restaurant in Berlin where Chatila's wife, Nabila, who remains in their homeland for now, will run the kitchen. The duo — Chatila the mastermind and Reda the vulnerable — first lands in Athens' shadowlands, where, under the gaze of the goddess Athena, no safeguard can withstand their determination. Drug use, theft, violence, prostitution, all methods are fair game for these two products of perpetual exile, the kind that brands the destiny of the Palestinian people.Chatila and Reda struggle in the labyrinth of gray streets, haunted by the urgency of a seemingly impossible escape. The Greek capital becomes a trap, where time stretches — much like...
Two Palestinian cousins, Chatila (played by Mahmoud Bakri) and Reda (Aram Sabbah), leave a refugee camp in Lebanon, driven by hope for a new, and better, life. Their dream is to open a restaurant in Berlin where Chatila's wife, Nabila, who remains in their homeland for now, will run the kitchen. The duo — Chatila the mastermind and Reda the vulnerable — first lands in Athens' shadowlands, where, under the gaze of the goddess Athena, no safeguard can withstand their determination. Drug use, theft, violence, prostitution, all methods are fair game for these two products of perpetual exile, the kind that brands the destiny of the Palestinian people.Chatila and Reda struggle in the labyrinth of gray streets, haunted by the urgency of a seemingly impossible escape. The Greek capital becomes a trap, where time stretches — much...
