To a Land Unknown with Mahdi Fleifel in person- Tuesday November 10 at 6:00pm- CCVA theater

Screening and Conversation: To a Land Unknown with Mahdi Fleifel in person

Tuesday, November 10, 6pm

Carpenter Center Theater, Lower Level 

Free admission

Please join the Film Study Center and the Sensory Ethnography Lab for a special screening and conversation with Radcliffe-FSC fellow Mahdi Fleifel and his film To a Land Unknown.

To a Land Unknown

Directed by Mahdi Fleifel, 106 min., 2025

Reda and Chatila are two Palestinian cousins hustling their way through the underbelly of Athens pursuing their dream of making it to Germany. But as their hardship grows, so too does their desperation. When Chatila hatches a reckless all-or-nothing plan, it strains their bond and pushes the limits of what they will do for freedom.

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Mahdi Fleifel is a Palestinian-Danish filmmaker whose work explores exile, displacement, and memory. His latest feature, To a Land Unknown (2024), premiered at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight and has won more than 30 international awards.

A graduate of the UK's National Film and Television School, Fleifel founded the London-based production company Nakba FilmWorks, through which he has produced all his films to date. His works include A World Not Ours (2012), which received awards at Berlinale, Yamagata, and DOC NYC; A Man Returned (2016), winner of the Berlinale Silver Bear; A Drowning Man (2017), nominated for the Short Film Palme d’Or and a BAFTA; and I Signed the Petition (2018), winner of IDFA's Best Short Documentary award.

Fleifel is currently a Radcliffe-FSC Fellow at Harvard University.