Chicago-based Watermelon Pictures has acquired North American distribution rights to Danish-Palestinian writer-director Mahdi Fleifel’s “To a Land Unknown,” which world premiered to extensive acclaim at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.
Sold by Salaud Morisset, “To a Land Unknown” saw a P&I screening on Friday at Toronto where it has its North American premiere in Toronto’s Centrepiece showcase, packing an impressive double-punch for Salaud Morisset with a second Centrepiece title, “Under the Volcano,” which it also represents.
Channeling “the Spirit of ‘Bicycle Thieves,’” Variety said in an upbeat review, “To a Land Unknown” turns on two cousins, Chatila and Reda, raised in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, who are now
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