Editor’s Note: This review originally was published during the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. Watermelon Pictures releases “To a Land Unknown” in select theaters on Friday, July 11, 2025. The brilliant ...

“To a Land Unknown,” directed by Mahdi Fleifel (“A World Not Ours”), will make its Columbus premiere at Gateway Film Center Friday at 6:30 p.m. The opening scene of the film displays a quote from ...

Mahdi Fleifel's "To a Land Unknown" won the Transilvania Trophy at the Transilvania Film Festival, Romania's most prominent film fest. Noaz Deshe took the best directing award for "Xoftex," while the ...

And while it marks Fleifel’s narrative debut, the story of “To a Land Unknown” almost continues on from his award-winning documentary, following two young Palestinian refugees stranded in Athens and ...

After playing more than 100 festivals starting at Cannes, Mahdi Fleifel’s acclaimed refugee drama “To a Land Unknown” from Palestine is finally coming to theaters from Watermelon Pictures. IndieWire ...

Jasneet Singh is a writer who finally has a platform to indulge in long rants about small moments on TV and film in overwhelming detail. With a literature background, she is drawn to the narrative ...

Sitting on an Athens park bench with their skateboards, with pigeons scouring the ground for food at their feet, the cousins at the heart of “To a Land Unknown” scan their surroundings for their next ...

"We're getting out, no matter what." Watermelon Pictures has debuted the official US trailer for an indie film titled To A Land Unknown, made by filmmaker Mahdi Fleifel. This originally premiered at ...

Mahdi Fleifel’s “To a Land Unknown” won the Transilvania Trophy at the Transilvania Film Festival, Romania’s most prominent film fest. Noaz Deshe took the best directing award for “Xoftex,” while the ...

Sitting on an Athens park bench with their skateboards, with pigeons scouring the ground for food at their feet, the cousins at the heart of “To a Land Unknown” scan their surroundings for their next ...