Dir: Mahdi Fleifel
Cast: Angeliki Papoulia, Manal Awad, Mahmood Bakri, Mohammad Ghassan, Aram Sabbah, Monzer Reyahnah, Mohammad Alsurafa, Mouataz Alshaltouh
Arabic, Greek with English Subtitles
105 mins

A Palestinian refugee living on the fringes of society in Athens gets ripped off by a smuggler and sets out to seek revenge.

The stakes couldn’t be higher for displaced Palestinian refugees Chatila (Mahmoud Bakri) and Reda (Aram Sabbah) in this knife-edge drama. The cousins are saving to pay for fake passports to get out of Athens, but when Reda loses their hard-earned cash to his drug addiction, Chatila hatches an extreme plan to pose as smugglers in an attempt to get them out of their desperate situation before it is too late.

Paying homage to 70s and 80s Hollywood movies, the film, featuring beautiful cinematography and a pitch-perfect score, and directed by Mahdi Fleifel, poses a sliding scale of morality as the severity of the crimes that the cousins commit gradually increases.

“Crafted with painstaking care, and features two strong lead performances that are thoughtfully translated to the screen by an empathetic lens.” – Screen International

“The most supreme Middle Eastern cinema released this year…humanistic tour de force” – Middle East Eye

“A gripping neorealist neo-noir that is among the best international crime films produced in years, well-executed on all levels” – The National

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