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 ...

Chatila and Reda are cousins, living a limbo existence in Athens, where they have escaped life in a Palestinian refugee camp and where they await passage to Germany. Their dreams are to open a cafe, ...

Mahdi Fleifel’s debut feature, the documentary “A World Not Ours,” proved to be an unexpected festival hit back in 2012. A warm, often humorous and deeply compassioned study of the Ein El-Helweh ...

The City of Carson has reached a settlement agreement with developer Cam-Carson, parting ways over the development of a ...

Exclusive: Mahdi Fleifel's refugee drama was the only Palestinian movie at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. After playing more than 100 festivals starting at Cannes, Mahdi Fleifel’s acclaimed refugee ...

"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 ...

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 ...