‘How often do you see Palestinian stories in fiction?’: the film-maker trying to adjust our focus

To a Land Unknown is Mahdi Fleifel’s first feature film. Photograph: Tim P Whitby/Getty Images for The Red Sea International Film Festival

Palestinian stories, according to Mahdi Fleifel, are always “stranger than fiction” yet too often are told only in documentaries.

Now, after a career making factual films, the Danish-Palestinian’s debut feature, To a Land Unknown, will be released in the UK on 14 February.