To a Land Unknown

Name: To a Land Unknown
Genre: Thriller, Crime
Released: July 11, 2025
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 84

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Watermelon Pictures | Release Date: July 11, 2025 | Not Rated

Summary: Reda and Chatila are two Palestinian cousins hustling their way through the underbelly of Athens pursuing their dream of making it to Germany. But as their hardship grows, so too does their desperation. When Chatila hatches a reckless all-or-nothing plan, it strains their bond and pushes the limits of what they will do for freedom.

Genre(s): Thriller, Crime

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 105 min

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Liam Lacey

Jul 10, 2025

To a Land Unknown is unquestionably topical. It’s also rooted in a well-known movie tradition, films that are empathetic portraits of low-level urban criminals struggling for survival and dignity. Read full review

Screen Rant Abigail Stevens

Jul 10, 2025

It is focused on its small-scale story about the main characters who are burdened by pain and dead-ends, but carefully works in the broader injustices it wants the audience to see. Read full review

Collider Jasneet Singh

Jul 14, 2025

To a Land Unknown paints a brutally honest and empathetic portrait of the lives of Palestinian refugees. Read full review

Jacob Oller

Jul 11, 2025

In its quiet reflection on the limited choices of those backed into a corner, the drama elegantly conveys how a people’s continued persecution not only starves, shoots, and bombs individuals, but erodes the solidarity of their whole. Read full review

Alex Saveliev

Jul 15, 2025

Stripped away off all privileges, a shell of a human remains, a carcass, and that glimmer of hope that keeps one going is the driving nucleus of the lyrical and timely To a Land Unknown. Read full review

Jordan Mintzer

Jun 5, 2024

A sober and sincere refugee story. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Glenn Kenny

Jul 11, 2025

The sobering note on which the movie ends recalls a stone-cold classic from a sadly long-gone era of moviemaking. The homage actually functions as a token of this movie’s integrity and heartfelt sadness. Read full review

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