#mahdi fleifel

[djibrildiopmambety]

To a Land Unknown (2024), directed by Mahdi Fleifel

Stranded in a bleak, overcrowded neighbourhood in Athens, cousins Chatila and Reda are endlessly plotting their escape. Coming from a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, the best friends, raised more like brothers, search for a life that offers more than displacement.

[gael-garcia]

A WORLD NOT OURS (2012, Mahdi Fleifel)

[roseillest]

عالم ليس لنا // A WORLD NOT OURS (2012) dir. MAHDI FLEIFEL

[porquevi]

"Em ruma à uma terra desconhecida" (To a Land Unknown) - cinema.

Temos frequentado mais o IMS recentemente. Numa noite, procurando um filme que se encaixasse no horário encontramos esse. Li apenas o resumo no site. A questão palestina está em alta pelos piores motivos, uma guerra genocida. Nesse filme os refugiados estão na Grécia e querem chegar na Alemanha.

depois de ver: daqueles que embrulham nosso estômago a cada decisão dos personagens. a simpatia se esvai num mundo que premia o indivíduo.

[rrrauschen]

Mahdi Fleifel, {2018} I Signed The Petition

[hiddenfilmgem]

A World Not Ours (2012)

An intimate, and often humorous, portrait of three generations of exile in the refugee camp of Ein el-Helweh, in southern Lebanon. Based on a wealth of personal recordings, family archives, and historical footage, the film is a sensitive, and illuminating study of belonging, friendship, and family in the lives of those for whom dispossession is the norm, and yearning their daily lives. 

[xavierkat]

A very short - literally - interlude on power and powerlessness. 

Incredibly powerful.

- I Signed the Petition and Now I’m Freaking Out, Mahdi Fleifel, 2018 

(available via The Atlantic here)

[roseillest]

TO A LAND UNKNOWN (2024) dir. MAHDI FLEIFEL