Critique of the film “Towards an unknown country”: far from Palestine …

The documentary maker Mahdi Fleifel signs his first fictional feature here with this magnificent story of two Palestinian cousins stuck in Greece.

Chatila (Mahmood Bakri) and Reda (Aram Sabbah) are in Athens. Moreover, One evening. In addition, they look at a boy picking an orange, before taking an interest in a woman, sitting on a bench. For example, It is their target, because they will steal her handbag. Meanwhile, Because Chatila and Reda are in transit. Moreover, Coming from a refugee camp in Lebanon. Meanwhile, in which Nabila, Chatila’s wife, and their little boy, want to go to Germany, the promised land is still located. In Greece, they survive time to find a way.

And survive is to fall into delinquency. It is also to fall into drugs, Reda did not resist. But nothing critique film “towards unknown country”: is white or black when you live on the sidelines of society. Is it difficult to try to find a way to go to Germany. or to pass a little boy abandoned by his father to Italy while asking for a golden bridge from his aunt? Are the theft they commit condemnable?

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Tatiana (Angeliki Papoulia), a Greek with whom Chatila, has an adventure also evolves in this shadow area. Will she accept to accompany the boy on the other side of the border. she who has a passport, the sesame necessary to circulate freely inside the Schengen critique film “towards unknown country”: zone? And if she accepts by asking for part of the money, is it bad?

Beyond these moral questions (and for which each spectator will have their own answer). the filmmaker Mahdi Fleifel in poses others. How do we justify treating humans as animals? How to get out of it if nothing is done so that we get out of it? And there too. the spectator will have his own answers, which will echo his own values by seeing, in particular, the tattoo of Palestine that Reda sports on his chest.

Note: 3.5 out of 5

To an unknown country is presented at the Beaubien cinema with French subtitles. and at the cinema of the park and the museum with French and English subtitles from July 25.