SCREENINGS//عروض

TAFF2022: “With Strings Attached” Shorts Programme
Event Details
May 26, 2022
6:00 pm EDT
Virtual
Screenings:
Fighters
Country: France
Director: Malika Hadjal
Length: 20 mins
Synopsis: Emma, a woman of 35 years old, beaten by her abusive husband, escapes her house during the night with her 5 years old daughter, CHLOE.
Osha//عوشة
Country: United Arab Emirates
Director: Rasha Amer
Length: 15 mins
Synopsis: This short documentary follows a mother (Aysha) and daughter (Osha) as they travel through the desert hunting with falcons, the traditional Emirati method that has been passed down through the generations.
Ana Wa Enti (Me and You)//أنا و أنت
Country: United States
Director: Alexandra Muhawi-Ho
Length: 17 mins
Synopsis: 33-year-old Amira struggles to find her place in between her Arab and American identities while living with and navigating her relationship with her culturally traditional, yet loving mother.
Tender Threads//حبال المودة
Country: Morocco
Director: Ouijdane Khallid
Length: 24 mins
Synopsis: The routine of daily life between Radia and her mother generates an awful discomfort and becomes a major obstacle to Radia’s emotional future and her relationship with her mother. This monotony therefore cause an unexpected cleavage.
With Strings Attached
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Alla Abdunabi
Length: 3 mins
Synopsis: The importance of women in this world is often neglected. This narrative stop-motion film explores the complexities of a relationship with a mother. The emphasis of a woman’s presence on a child’s growth is hidden between the lines of this short film. However, the connection must come to an end; after all, there are always strings attached.
Incurable
Country: Iran
Director: Bahare Nikjoo
Length: 17 mins
Synopsis: In a southern region of Iran, a girl has been lost. Her brother and her sister in law are looking for her, but there is a mystery behind this.
Co-presented with MENA Film Festival
TAFF2022: “Women on the Verge” Shorts Programme
Event Details
May 26, 2022
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT
Paradise Theatre, 1006 Bloor Street West, Toronto, ON M6H 1M2
Screenings:
Virtual Voice
Country: Sudan
Director: Suzannah Mirghani
Length: 7 mins
Synopsis: This is a satirical review of our times. Suzi doll is an ego-warrior. My online avatar, marching to the algorithms of social media. She is lit by temporary outrage. A trending indignation. A passion that is fashion. A politics of the popular. Her activism is abstract. Her help is hypothetical. We know many girls like Suzi, and many times we are her: vacuous virtual voices, echoing injustices.
Alia
Country: France
Director: Zahra Berrada
Length: 26 mins
Synopsis: Ali, a young Moroccan emigrant, is torn between the conservative environment of his family and his passion for the cabaret where he cross-dresses at night to become Alia.
Blooming Dalia
Country: France
Director: Holy Fatma
Length: 24 mins
Synopsis: Dalia (25), a french ex-reality TV starlet, is at her lowest point. Depressed and overweight, she tries to reconnect with her estranged mother, who still refuses to talk to her because of her seedy tabloid fodder past. Deeply hurt, Dalia accepts to be part of a new TV show booked by Coco, her agent, on the one condition that she loses weight. But as Coco strives to make her the IT-girl she once was, Dalia’s repressed Algerian origins resurface unexpectedly.
J’ai Le Cafard//بنت وردان
Country: Kuwait
Director: Maysaa Almumin
Length: 14 mins
Synopsis: A woman in a downhearted mood struggles to keep up appearances in front of her chirpy and driven office colleagues. An encounter with a dying cockroach in the office toilet develops into an absurd friendship, becoming the comforting companionship she needs until she realizes its destructive effects on her life.
An Evening with Laila//سهرة مع ليلى
Country: Kuwait
Director: Haya Alghanim
Length: 10 mins
Synopsis: A short documentary about the life and true story of Laila Abdulaziz, a pioneer of music in the Arabian Gulf and staple of Kuwaiti history who had a vision for the future that no one was ready for, not even herself.
Conversations with an Actress
Country: Lebanon
Director: Estephan Khattar
Length: 13 mins
Synopsis: Throughout two consecutive summers, a director was documenting his conversations with an actress about Beirut, love, failure, and immigration without her knowing that her private chats and voice notes have been transformed into a film.
Last Days of the Man of Tomorrow//آخر أيّام رجل الغَد
Country: Lebanon, Germany
Director: Fadi Baki
Length: 23 mins
Synopsis: A young filmmaker investigates the legend of Manivelle, an automaton gifted to Lebanon in 1945 that still haunts an abandoned mansion in Beirut. After being coaxed back out into the limelight, the people who knew him come forward to speak their mind, and the myth that Manivelle has constructed around himself begins to unravel. A science-fiction mockumentary out of Lebanon, Last Days of the Man of Tomorrow is a funny, sad and weird look at the life of the Middle East’s first and only living robot and the stories you won’t find in your history books.
Co-presented with Breakthroughs Film Festival
TAFF2022: Canadian Short Film Screening + Canadian Filmmakers Roundtable
Event Details
May 29, 2022
12:00 pm EDT
Paradise Theatre, 1006 Bloor Street West, Toronto, ON, M6H 1M2

Join us for a screening of Canadian short films followed by a panel discussion around opportunities and challenges making films in Canada and beyond.
Screenings:
Brown Bread & Apricots
Country: Jordan, Canada
Director: Serene Husni
Length: 8 mins
Synopsis: In the absence of his parents, an unruly teenager is presented with a crucial test of character devised by his eldest sister. Instead of being punished for skipping school, he is entrusted with managing the family allowance for two weeks. To feed his siblings, he resorts to something he knew in his heart: in a Palestinian house, the pantry is never bare. Borrowing from classic elements of Palestinian storytelling—namely repetition, trickery, and an obsession with food—Brown Bread & Apricots is a story about a Palestinian family in exile.
Visions of Basra
Country: Canada
Director: Noor Gatih
Length: 5 mins
Synopsis: Visions of Basra explores my mother’s fragmented memories of her homeland by exploring her photographs, colours and words. Each moving visual appears to be imperfect or out of focus the more detailed her recollections become.
Nur El Qulub//نورالقلوب
Country: Canada
Director: Sawsan Alsaraf
Length: 8 mins
Synopsis: Nur Al Qulub is an exploration of the spiritual dimension of shadow and light. Drawing from the director’s experiences as the end-of-life support person for many near and dear people in her life, this project seeks to ask questions about spiritual truth, transitions, and the unknown. Dwelling on the threshold of spaces of darkness leading to the light, shadow work and discomfort, and the material and the spiritual, Nur Al Qulub references AlSaraf’s deepest realizations around the meaning of life – and death.
Don’t Forget The Water
Country: Canada
Director: Christina Hajjar
Length: 5 mins
Synopsis: A phone conversation sets the diasporic table as a disembodied figure prepares Qahwah Arabi / Arabic Coffee. Here, the contradictions inherent in Google Translate’s instant camera feature are made visible through glitched mistranslations. Using these flaws as a prompt, the communication between a mother and a daughter considers ambiguity as a source of embodied knowledge.
Festina Lente
Country: Canada
Director: Baya Medhaffar
Length: 21 mins
Synopsis: Combining two contradictory terms in a single phrase is called an oxymoron. Circumventing the obvious, shaking up the logic, proceeding in gusts, claiming the impossible, such is the method that Baya Medhaffar has chosen and, adopting an ancient motto, she makes it clear right from the title: “Make haste slowly”. There are several explanations for this speed proclaimed yet slowed all at once. Her film is mostly made of edited, assembled images from other films; thus, all the emergencies from other works reach a climax here, but as they overlap, they also call for their patient and detailed examination. The dishevelled editing is combined to a superimposition technique that makes scales collide, that associate separated figures and backgrounds, and that ties together in the same frame seemingly unrelated dynamics and lines of forces.
Panel:
Canadian Filmmakers Roundtable
Through this discussion, filmmakers will reflect on their creative journeys, opportunities and challenges making films in Canada and beyond.

Moderator:
Nashwa Lina Khan, Community Educator, Facilitator, and Researcher

Nashwa Lina Khan is a community educator, facilitator, and researcher. She is also a writer and poet and occasionally dabbles in installation and archive that uses narrative methodologies. She holds a Masters of Environmental Studies from York University with areas of concentration focused on narrative methodologies, community and public health, refugee, and forced migration studies and is currently a PhD student at York University in Environment and Urban Change. Her work has been published in a variety of places including Vice, Rewire, This Magazine, and The New York Times. She is the host and producer of two podcasts, Muslim Rumspringa and Habibti Please.
Speakers:
Sawsan Al Saraf, Filmmaker

Sawsan AlSaraf (Canadian, b. Iraq) is a visual and multimedia artist who lives and works in Montreal, Canada, AlSaraf has moved between the Middle East and North America since 1977. In her work, she draws her references from her life experiences as an expatriate Iraqi woman. She holds a BFA in Studio Arts rom Concordia University in Montreal, Canada and an MFA in Visual Arts from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Noor Gatih, Filmmaker

Noor Gatih is an Iraqi filmmaker and photographer based in Toronto. Her practice explores gender and generational patterns within family archives, film, and photography, and her work has been exhibited at Collusion Books, Gallery 44, Wave Art Collective and Gallery 1265. Recently, she was selected for a 2021 mentorship opportunity at Made In Her Image (hosted by Panavision), an organization that provides training and resources for women of colour pursuing a career in film production.
Christina Hajjar, Filmmaker

Christina Hajjar is a Lebanese artist, writer, and cultural worker based in Winnipeg on Treaty 1 Territory. Her practice considers intergenerational inheritance, domesticity, and place through diaspora, body archives, and cultural iconography. As a queer femme and first-generation subject, she is invested in the poetics of process, translation, and collaborative labour. Her work involves photography, film, performance, installation, publishing, and curation.

Hajjar was a recipient of the 2020 PLATFORM Photography Award and received an honourable mention for the 2021 Emerging Digital Artists Award. Her film Don’t Forget the Water won the Jury Award and the Audience Choice Award for Best Manitoba Short Film at Gimli Film Festival. Hajjar curates the SWANA Film Festival, presenting South West Asian and North African short films from around the world.

Hajjar is a Managing Editor of Carnation Zine (publishing art and writing on diaspora and displacement) and qumra journal (publishing reflections on world cinema). She is senior editor of Herizons (Canada’s foremost feminist magazine). She is the creator of Diaspora Daughter, Diaspora Dyke zine, which won Best Artzine at the Broken Pencil Zine Awards. Her writing has appeared in BlackFlash Magazine, C Magazine, The Uniter, CV2, Prairie Fire, and PaperWait.
Serene Husni, Filmmaker

Serene Husni is a documentarian, mentor, and Arabic-English translator. She holds an MFA in Documentary Media awarded with distinction from the Toronto Metropolitan University, and her directorial debut, “Zinco” (2013) won the “Audience Award for Best Short Documentary” from the Franco-Arab Film Festival. Her short, “Brown Bread & Apricots” (2021) won the Qayqub Award for “Best Canadian Short Film” from the Toronto Arab Film Festival. She is a co-writer and co-editor of the feature documentary “Eulogy for The Dead Sea” (2022), directed by Polina Teif, which traces the environmental impacts of settler colonialism on the disappearing body of water and the communities that live around it. She is currently in post production on her first feature documentary, a city symphony in four movements, titled “Jenin & the Colony”.
TAFF2022: Screening “A Second Life//ڨدحة”
Event Details
May 26, 2022
6:00 pm EDT
Virtual
Screenings:
A Second Life//ڨدحة
Country: Tunisia
Director: Aniss Lassoued
Length: 92 mins
Synopsis: Gadeha (12) happens one day to be the victim of a car accident. He undergoes surgery. Penniless, his mother, Borkana, is helped by Malika and Moez, a benevolent couple that offers to pay for the hospital fees and provides the destitute family with a roof. Gadeha meets Oussama, Malika and Moez’s child (11) who is recovering from a kidney transplant. A strong friendship is made between the two boys. But Gadeha finds out haphazardly the secret of his family’s new standard of living. He is devastated.
TAFF2022: Screening “Abu Saddam//أبو صدام”
Event Details
May 29, 2022
5:00 pm EDT
Paradise Theatre, 1006 Bloor Street West, Toronto, ON, M6H 1M2
Screenings:
Abu Saddam//أبو صدام
Country: Egypt
Director: Nadine Khan
Length: 89 mins
Synopsis: Experienced truck driver Abu Saddam gets a transportation mission on the North Coast road after he stopped working for years. He decides that he wants to complete his mission perfectly to complement his working reputation, but as he faces a small situation on the road things start to get out of control.
Co-presented with Egypt Migrations
TAFF2022: Screening “Abu Saddam//أبو صدام”
Event Details
May 26, 2022
6:00 pm EDT
Virtual
Screenings:
Abu Saddam//أبو صدام
Country: Egypt
Director: Nadine Khan
Length: 89 mins
Synopsis: Experienced truck driver Abu Saddam gets a transportation mission on the North Coast road after he stopped working for years. He decides that he wants to complete his mission perfectly to complement his working reputation, but as he faces a small situation on the road things start to get out of control.
Co-presented with Egypt Migrations
TAFF2022: Screening “Algerian Chronicles”
Event Details
May 26, 2022
6:00 pm EDT
Virtual
Screenings:
Algerian Chronicles
Country: France
Director: Zak Kedzi
Length: 74 mins
Synopsis: Summer 2019, Zak wanders around the streets of Alger and dives into the Hirak, a series of protests happening in Algeria since February of that same year. His chronicles feed off encounters with men and women who observe through enlightened eyes their country and its struggles: through their words, the strength and complexity of such a movement takes shape.
TAFF2022: Screening “Costa Brava, Lebanon”
Event Details
May 26, 2022
6:00 pm EDT
Virtual
Screenings:
Costa Brava, Lebanon
Country: Lebanon
Director: Mounia Akl
Length: 106 mins
Synopsis: Members of a family quit the polluted, rubbish-strewn city of Beirut for an idyllic mountain home. However, their dreams of a utopian existence are shattered by the construction of a landfill on the boundary of their land.
Co-presented with Lebanese Film Festival in Canada
TAFF2022: Screening “Don’t Get Too Comfortable”
Event Details
May 26, 2022
6:00 pm EDT
Virtual
Screenings:
Don’t Get Too Comfortable
Country: Yemen, Qatar, United States, Netherlands
Director: Shaima Al Tamimi
Length: 9 mins
Synopsis: Don’t Get Too Comfortable is a heartfelt introspective letter to my deceased grandfather. The letter questions the continuous pattern of movement amongst Yemenis in diaspora. The film fuses archival photographs, sourced footage, parallax animation, abstract videos to create an audio visual body of work that calls attention to the collective feeling of statelessness and sense of being felt by Yemeni (or non-Yemeni) migrants.
TAFF2022: Screening “Elektra, My Love (Elektra, Ya Gharami)”
Event Details
May 26, 2022
6:00 pm EDT
Virtual
Screenings:
Elektra, My Love (Elektra, Ya Gharami)
Country: Lebanon, Germany
Director: Hisham Bizri
Length: 89 mins
Synopsis: A kammerspiel-film set in the moody, cavernous ruin of the Piccadilly Theater, Beirut’s extravagant art palace destroyed after the Lebanese Civil War.
TAFF2022: Screening “Elektra, My Love (Elektra, Ya Gharami)” + Talk with Dalal Al-Bizri
Event Details
May 29, 2022
7:30 pm EDT
Paradise Theatre, 1006 Bloor Street West, Toronto, ON, M6H 1M2
The screening is followed by a conversation with Dalal Bizri.
Screenings:
Elektra, My Love (Elektra, Ya Gharami)
Country: Lebanon, Germany
Director: Hisham Bizri
Length: 89 mins
Synopsis: A kammerspiel-film set in the moody, cavernous ruin of the Piccadilly Theater, Beirut’s extravagant art palace destroyed after the Lebanese Civil War.
Speaker:
Dalal Al-Bizri, Lebanese researcher and writer
Dalal Al-Bizri, Lebanese researcher and writer. She specializes in contemporary Islamic movements and authored several studies on women’s issues. She served as lecturer in Political Sociology at the Lebanese University and spent ten years as researcher in Egypt.
TAFF2022: Screening “Khamsin”
Event Details
May 26, 2022
6:00 pm EDT
Virtual
Screenings:
Khamsin
Country: France
Director: Grégoire Couvert, Grégoire Orio
Length: 66 mins
Synopsis: Lebanon today. The traces of the civil war are all too tangible as government corruption becomes unbearable. In a country where conflict and peace are caught in an endless cycle, musicians from different backgrounds pool their talents to create an underground music scene. Each evokes his or her representation of Lebanon: its shifting geographical, political, historical and social borders, its painful passage through conflict and instability. A touching portrait of a young generation trying to build an oasis in a hostile environment where the forces of destruction continue to wreak havoc.
TAFF2022: Screening “Under The Concrete//تحت السموات و الأرض”
Event Details
May 26, 2022
6:00 pm EDT
Virtual
Screenings:
Under The Concrete//تحت السموات و الأرض
Country: Lebanon
Director: Roy Arida
Length: 79 mins
Synopsis: Beirut, Lebanon 2017. As the country trembles a man decides to attempt to break the world record of depth in deep diving.
TAFF2022: Screening “Virtual Voice”
Event Details
May 26, 2022
6:00 pm EDT
Virtual
Screenings:
Virtual Voice
Country: Sudan
Director: Suzannah Mirghani
Length: 7 mins
Synopsis: This is a satirical review of our times. Suzi doll is an ego-warrior. My online avatar, marching to the algorithms of social media. She is lit by temporary outrage. A trending indignation. A passion that is fashion. A politics of the popular. Her activism is abstract. Her help is hypothetical. We know many girls like Suzi, and many times we are her: vacuous virtual voices, echoing injustices.
TAFF2022: Screening “You Resemble Me”
Event Details
May 26, 2022
6:00 pm EDT
Virtual
Screenings:
You Resemble Me
Country: France, Egypt, United States
Director: Dina Amer
Length: 90 mins
Synopsis: When the bond is broken between two sisters, a little girl transforms into someone new in the name of belonging and resistance. Director Dina Amer takes one of the darkest tales of our time, the story of Muslim terror in the West, and deconstructs it in a story about family, love, sisterhood, and fractured identity.
TAFF2022: Screening “You Resemble Me” + Panel on “The Language of Belonging”
Event Details

May 28, 2022
7:30 pm EDT
Innis Town Hall Theatre, 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5

Join us for a screening of “You Resemble Me” followed by a panel on “The Language of Belonging” where Jasmin Zine and Amir Al-Azraki will join Nehal El-Hadi in a moderated discussion exploring Islamophobia, radicalization, and barriers to belonging for Muslim youth in disapora.
Screening:
You Resemble Me
Country: France, Egypt, United States
Director: Dina Amer
Length: 90 mins
Synopsis: When the bond is broken between two sisters, a little girl transforms into someone new in the name of belonging and resistance. Director Dina Amer takes one of the darkest tales of our time, the story of Muslim terror in the West, and deconstructs it in a story about family, love, sisterhood, and fractured identity.
Panel:
The Language of Belonging
Moderator:
Nehal El-Hadi, Science + Technology Editor, The Conversation Canada

Nehal El-Hadi investigates the relationships between the body (racialised, gendered), place (urban, virtual), and technology (internet, health).

She completed a Ph.D. in Planning at the University of Toronto, where her research examined the relationships between user-generated content and everyday public urban life.

As a scholar, her hybrid digital/material research methods are informed by her training and experience as a science and environmental journalist.

Nehal advocates for the responsible, accountable, and ethical treatment of user-generated content in the fields of journalism, planning, and healthcare.

Her writing has appeared in academic journals, general scholarship publications, literary magazines, and several anthologies and edited collections.

Nehal is the Science+Technology Editor at The Conversation Canada, an academic news site, and Editor-in-Chief of Studio Magazine, a biannual print publication dedicated to contemporary Canadian craft and design. She currently holds a residency at Toronto’s Theatre Centre, where she is developing a live arts event that explores surveillance, privacy, and consent.

Nehal sits on the Board of Directors of FiXT POINT Arts & Media and Provocation Ideas Festival. She is a member of the Digital Communities Advisory Panel at the Centre for Free Expression. She was previously a Visiting Scholar at the City Institute at York University.
Speakers:
Jasmin Zine, Professor of Sociology and Religion & Culture at Wilfrid Laurier University

Jasmin Zine is a Professor of Sociology and Religion & Culture at Wilfrid Laurier University. She served as a consultant on combating Islamophobia for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Council of Europe (COE), and the Office for the Democratic Institutions and Human Rights at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (ODHIR/OSCE). Her recent book: Under Siege: Islamophobia and the 9/11 Generation (2022, McGill -Queens University Press) explores the experiences of the millennial generation of Canadian Muslim youth who came of age during the global war on terror and times of heightened anti-Muslim racism. She is author of a major report on the Canadian Islamophobia industry that examines the networks of hate and bigotry that purvey and monetize Islamophobia. She is a sought-after media commentator and has given numerous invited talks and keynotes in Istanbul, Paris, Vienna, Budapest, Berlin, Madrid, Cordoba, Nairobi, Uppsala, as well as in Pakistan and across the U.S.
Amir Al-Azraki, playwright, literary translator, Assistant Professor at University of Waterloo

Amir Al-Azraki is an Arab-Canadian playwright, literary translator, Theatre of the Oppressed practitioner, Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Studies in Islamic and Arab Cultures Program, at Renison University College, University of Waterloo. Among his plays are: Waiting for Gilgamesh: Scenes from Iraq, The Mug, and The Widow. Al-Azraki is the author of The Discourse of War in Contemporary Theatre (in Arabic), co-editor and co-translator of Contemporary Plays from Iraq, “A Rehearsal for Revolution”: An Approach to Theatre of the Oppressed (in Arabic), and co-editor and co-translator of Arabic poetry by female poets in Consequence, The Common, Poetry Foundation and Talking Writing. He is currently translating Representations of the Other: The Image of Black People in the Medieval Arab Imaginary by a Bahraini critic Nader Kadhim.
Co-presented with Provocation Ideas Festival
TAFF2022: Screening “State of Agitation//قلتلك خلص”
Event Details
May 26, 2022
6:00 pm EDT
Virtual
Screenings:
State of Agitation//قلتلك خلص
Country: Lebanon
Director: Elie Khalifé
Length: 100 mins
Synopsis: Living in Beirut, a highly enthusiastic filmmaker is in a state of hyper inspiration characterized by an overfiow of contrasting ideas. As a consequence, his characters will go through compelling and extraordinary circumstances. To clear his mind, he heads north where a screening of his short films is scheduled in a rural public school. A series of encounters along the way will turn his world upside down.
Co-presented with Al Rawiya
TAFF2023: Canadian Shorts Film Programme
Event Details
June 4, 2023
3:00 PM EDT
The Revue, 400 Roncesvalles Avenue, Toronto, ON M6R 2M9
Screenings:
04.23.2018//A Hail Mary
Country: Canada
Director: Faisal Karadsheh
Length: 10 mins
Synopsis: 04.23.2018// A Hail Mary explores the intricacies and unique challenges faced by Karadsheh’s family during their immigration to Toronto, from the widely-publicized death of his grandfather to the personal experiences and intimacies of home.
This film was supported by the Toronto Arab Film x Trinity Square Video Filmmaker Commission.
45th Parallel
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Lawrence Abu Hamdan
Length: 15 mins
Synopsis: 45th Parallel focuses on the Haskell Free Library and Opera House—a unique municipal site between the jurisdictions of Canada and the United States.
Leila and the Cigarette//ليلى و السيجارة
Country: Canada, Lebanon
Director: Leah Manasseh
Length: 15 mins
Synopsis: In 2011, Leah decided to go to Lebanon to film with her grandmother. Two weeks after the shoot, her grandmother died of metastatic lung cancer. It took her 12 years to get the courage to revisit their last conversations.
Simo
Country: Canada
Director: Aziz Zoromba
Length: 23 mins
Synopsis: The usual rivalries and jealousies that exist between the two teenage brothers Simo and Emad take a dangerous turn that may seriously impact the future of their family.
TAFF2023: Screening “Fiasco//فياسكو”
Event Details
June 1, 2023
7:00 pm EDT
Virtual
Screenings:
Fiasco//فياسكو
Country: Lebanon, Netherlands
Director: Nicolas Khoury
Length: 70 mins
Synopsis: The strong and, at time, dysfunctional relationship that binds Nicolas to his family after the death of his father.
TAFF2023: Screening “Foragers//اليد الخضراء”
Event Details
June 1, 2023
7:00 pm EDT
Virtual
Screenings:
Foragers//اليد الخضراء
Director: Jumana Manna
Length: 64 mins
Synopsis: Foragers depicts the dramas around the practice of foraging for wild edible plants in Palestine/Israel with wry humour and a meditative pace.  Shot in the Golan Heights, the Galilee, and Jerusalem, it employs fiction, documentary, and archival footage to portray the impact of Israeli nature protection laws on these customs. By reframing the terms and constraints of preservation, the film raises questions around the politics of extinction, namely who determines what is made extinct and what gets to live on.