'To a Land Unknown' Grapples With Horrific Reality With Compassion and Urgency

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As a filmmaker, how do you grapple with a topic as large and all-consuming as the systematic eradication of an entire people and their culture? It has been difficult enough to simply exist as a human being in the same world as what has been happening in Palestine over the last year and a half. The sheer unrelenting, remorseless horror of it all has led to a state of mental unreality and borderline dissociation in many people paying attention to it. Danish-Palestinian director Mahdi Fleifel ( A World Not Ours ) attempts to reckon with this unspeakable crime in his new feature, To A Land Unknown , perhaps the only way a filmmaker can: by zooming in on just one elem

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