United Kingdom/Palestine/France/Germany | V.O. Arabic/greek/English | ST French | 2024 | 105 min | DCP | color | Fiction
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 dangerous 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.
| Director | Mahdi Fleifel |
| Music | Nadah El Shazly |
| Cinematographer | Thodoros Mihopoulos |
| Screenplay | Fyzal Boulifa, Mahdi Fleifel, Jason McColgan |
| Cast | Angeliki Papoulia, Manal Awad, Mahmoud Bakri, Mohammad Ghassan, Mondher Rayahneh, Mouataz Alshaltouh |
| Production | Inside Out Films |
Mahdi Fleifel is a Palestinian-Danish director who graduated from NFTS in London. In 2012, his first feature-length documentary A World Not Ours premiered in Toronto, before going on to win some 30 awards (Berlinale, CPH:DOX, Yamagata, DOC:NYC). He participated in the Cinéfondation in 2013. He then directed several short films: A Man Returned (Silver Bear 2016), A Drowning Man (Cannes, Bafta nominated), I Signed The Petition (IDFA award and EFA nomination).
