Film

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Next on Tue, Sep 8, 7:00 p.m.

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The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1

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To a Land Unknown. 2024. UK/France/Germany/Netherlands/Greece/Qatar/Saudi Arabia/Palestine. Directed by Mahdi Fleifel. Courtesy Watermelon Pictures

Elefsina Notre Amour. 2023. Greece. Written and directed by Mahdi Fleifel. DCP. 9 min.

A Drowning Man. 2017. Denmark/UK/Greece. Written and directed by Mahdi Fleifel. With Atef Alshafei, Jalal Qaniry, Thymios Koukios. DCP. In Arabic, Greek; English subtitles. 16 min.

To a Land Unknown. 2024. UK/France/Germany/Netherlands/Greece/Qatar/Saudi Arabia/Palestine. Directed by Mahdi Fleifel. Screenplay by Fleifel, Fyzal Boulifa, Jason McColgan. With Mahmood Bakri, Aram Sabbagh, Angeliki Papoulia, Mohammad Alsurafa, Mouataz Alshaltouh, Mohammad Ghassan, Mondher Rayahneh. DCP. In Arabic, English, Greek; English subtitles. 105 min.

In Elefsina Notre Amour, Mahdi Fleifel films the deserted ruins of abandoned shipwrecks—and a history of exiled and abandoned refugees—in Elefsina’s Mediterranean waters. A Drowning Man follows a struggling refugee in Athens who faces impossible decisions to survive far from home. The latter short film foreshadows Fleifel’s moving feature To a Land Unknown, in which the Palestinian director pays tribute to the aesthetic heritage of New Hollywood (namely Midnight Cowboy) and to millions of refugees from his homeland who deal with the soul-crushing weight of displacement.

Total running time: 130 min.

This film accompanies Immigrant Nation: People in Transit.

Events

Tue, Sep 8, 7:00 p.m.

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The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1
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All tickets available Sep 1
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Thu, Sep 10, 7:00 p.m.

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The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1
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