“stranger than fiction”
A thoughtful profile of Mahdi Fleifel appeared recently in The Guardian.
Written by Saeed Kamali Dehghan, the article explores Mahdi’s journey from documentary filmmaking to his fiction debut, TO A LAND UNKNOWN, and reflects on the challenges of bringing Palestinian stories to the screen.
One comment in particular stayed with us: Palestinian stories are often considered “stranger than fiction”, yet too rarely find their way into narrative cinema.
The piece offers a valuable insight into Mahdi’s work, his influences and the long road to making TO A LAND UNKNOWN.
Geoff.
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