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Three young Palestinian refugees dream of escape from Athens after seven years of living in a country in crisis. Their carefully laid plans are ruined when they are conned by a people smuggler, and the friends must use their wits to get their money back. When they finally have their revenge, they are faced with the choice of sticking together or starting over.
Chatila, Fatah and Abu-Love, three Palestinian refugees, dream of escaping Athens after seven years living in a country collapsing upon itself. Chatila succeeds in smuggling a compatriot out of the country, but he only gets enough cash to get one of the three friends out of Greece. Soon the three lose all their money to the scheming migrant Jihad. Consumed with rage,they kidnap him, but he escapes and the men are once again trapped. A new plan emerges that will both get the whole gang out of Greece and allow them to exact revenge. Now wanted men, they have to skip town as soon as possible. The prospect of escape proves daunting, however, and Chatila is forced to choose between his friends and his freedom.

Credits

Director
Mahdi Fleifel
Screenwriter
Mahdi Fleifel
Producer
Patrick Campbell, Signe Byrge Sorensen
Production Company
Nakba FilmWorks, Final Cut for Real

About the Director

Mahdi Fleifel
Born in Dubai, Mahdi Fleifel lives and works between Denmark, England, and Greece. A graduate of the UK's National Film & Television School, he studied Fiction Directing under Stephen Frears and Pawel Pawlikowski. In 2010, he founded the company Nakba FilmWorks.

Producers

Patrick Campbell

Born and raised in Dublin, Patrick Campbell's academic background is in Anthropology and Sociology, but he has been drawn to filmmaking from a young age. Since moving to London, he has freelanced as a production manager, line producer and producer on pilots, shorts, and features. In 2010 Campbell and director Mahdi Fleifel formed the production company Nakba FilmWorks to produce the award-winning documentary 'A World Not Ours'. He is currently developing 'Men in the Sun' with Fleifel through Nakba FilmWorks and the New Danish Screen scheme, as well as readying other fiction and documentary features for production.

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