Film Festival 2025
Winner of the SACD Prize at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, this gritty social-realist drama – with shades of Midnight Cowboy – follows two desperate Palestinian cousins stranded in Athens, far from their families and their dream of opening a café in Germany.
film details
| Director: | Mahdi Fleifel |
| Producers: | Geoff Arbourne, Mahdi Fleifel |
| Screenwriter: | Fyzal Boulifa, Mahdi Fleifel, Jason McColgan |
| Cinematographers: | Thodoros Mihopoulos |
| Editor: | Halim Sabbagh |
| Music: | Nadah El Shazly |
| Cast: | Mahmood Bakri, Aram Sabbah, Angeliki Papoulia, Manal Awad |
| Country: | United Kingdom/Palestine/France/Greece/Netherlands/Germany/Qatar/Saudi Arabia |
| Language: | In Arabic and English, Greek with English subtitles |
| Year: | 2024 |
| Running Time: | 105 minutes |
| Primary Company: | WATERMELON Films |