'To a Land Unknown' - Presented by MIFF

Name: 'To a Land Unknown' - Presented by MIFF
Start: 2024-11-30T16:20:00-05:00
End: 2024-11-30T18:05:00-05:00
Location: Innis Town Hall

Schedule

Sat Nov 30 2024 at 04:20 pm to 06:05 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Innis Town Hall | Toronto, ON

Join us at MIFF for a screening of, 'To a Land Unknown' by director Mahdi Fleifel on November 30th, 2024 at 4:20 pm!
About this Event

Logline: After fleeing a camp in Lebanon, two Palestinian cousins are stranded in Athens, living in an underground limbo. Desperately seeking a way to reach Germany, they find themselves caught in an uncontrollable spiral.

Directed by: Mahdi Fleifel

Runtime: 01:45:00

Director's biography: Mahdi Fleifel, born in Dubai, is a filmmaker, a graduate of the British National Film & Television School and founded Nakba FilmWorks in 2010. His debut feature, A World Not Ours, premiered at TIFF and won over 30 awards, including the Berlinale Peace Prize. Fleifel's short films A Man Returned, A Drowning Man, and I Signed the Petition have earned accolades at Cannes, the European Film Awards, and IDFA. His film 3 Logical Exits premiered in 2020 at IFF Rotterdam.