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Young Masters

TO A LAND UNKNOWN

• Director: Mahdi Fleifel
• UK, PALESTINE, FRANCE, GREECE, THE NETHERLANDS, GERMANY, QATAR, SAUDI ARABIA / 2024 / DCP / Colour / 105’ / Arabic, Greek, English; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Mahdi Fleifel, Fyzal Boulifa, Jason McColgan
• Director of Photography: Thodoris Mihopoulos
• Editing: Halim Sabbagh
• Music: Nadah El Sazly
• Cast: Mahmood Bakri, Aram Sabbah, Mohammad Alsurafa, Αngeliki Papoulia
• Producer: Geoff Arbourne, Mahdi Fleifel
• Production Co.: Inside Out Films, Nakba FilmWorks
• World Sales: Salaud Morisset

2024 Mediterrane FF (Malta) Jury’s Choice
2024 Filmfest München CineCoPro Award
2024 Galway World Cinema Award
2024 Taormina Audience Award
2024 Human Rights FF Lugano Audience Award
2024 Cinemed –Montpellier Best Film
2024 Thessaloniki Best Actor (M. Bakri), Audience Award
2024 Red Sea FF (Saudia Arabia) Best Feature, Best Actor
2025 Premiers Plans Grand Prix du Jury

Inspired by John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, Fleifel tells the heart-rending story of two Palestinian cousins, Chatila and Reda. Chatila and Reda are saving to pay for fake passports to get out of Athens. But 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. Palestinian Danish director Mahdi Fleifel’s first feature-length fiction film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival within the Directors’ Fortnight section.

* In accordance with Article 7 of the Law No. 5224 amended on 18.01.2019, cinema films that have not been reviewed and classified can only be screened in festivals, special screenings and similar cultural and artistic events with an 18+ age restriction.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.