*All ticket sales for this screening will be donated to The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children’s Fund, which is dedicated to providing medical attention to the children of Gaza by transporting critically injured children, with their caretakers, from Palestine to Lebanon, where they can receive the best possible medical, psychological, and social care.
TOTAL RUNTIME: 86 minutes
Foragers depicts conflict between the Israel Nature and Parks Authority and Palestinian foragers around the practice of foraging for wild edible plants in Palestine/Israel with wry humor 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.
Following the plants from the wild to the kitchen, from the chases between the foragers and the nature patrol, to courtroom defenses, Foragers captures the joy and knowledge embodied in these traditions alongside their resilience to the prohibitive law. 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.
- Year2022
- Runtime65 minutes
- LanguageArabic, Hebrew
- CountryPalestine
- Content Warningthemes of surveillance, power struggles, government fines, brief imagery of knife, scenes of interrogation, mention of Israeli Park Authority, images of poverty, mention of the destruction of land, mention of unfair agricultural practices, mention of sentencing
- DirectorJumana Manna
- ScreenwriterJumana Manna, Rabea Eghbariah
- ProducerJumana Manna
- CastAziza Manna, Adel Manna, Zeidan Hajib
- CinematographerAshraf Dowani
- EditorJumana Manna, Katrin Ebersohn
- Sound DesignRashad Becker
*All ticket sales for this screening will be donated to The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children’s Fund, which is dedicated to providing medical attention to the children of Gaza by transporting critically injured children, with their caretakers, from Palestine to Lebanon, where they can receive the best possible medical, psychological, and social care.
TOTAL RUNTIME: 86 minutes
Foragers depicts conflict between the Israel Nature and Parks Authority and Palestinian foragers around the practice of foraging for wild edible plants in Palestine/Israel with wry humor 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.
Following the plants from the wild to the kitchen, from the chases between the foragers and the nature patrol, to courtroom defenses, Foragers captures the joy and knowledge embodied in these traditions alongside their resilience to the prohibitive law. 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.
- Year2022
- Runtime65 minutes
- LanguageArabic, Hebrew
- CountryPalestine
- Content Warningthemes of surveillance, power struggles, government fines, brief imagery of knife, scenes of interrogation, mention of Israeli Park Authority, images of poverty, mention of the destruction of land, mention of unfair agricultural practices, mention of sentencing
- DirectorJumana Manna
- ScreenwriterJumana Manna, Rabea Eghbariah
- ProducerJumana Manna
- CastAziza Manna, Adel Manna, Zeidan Hajib
- CinematographerAshraf Dowani
- EditorJumana Manna, Katrin Ebersohn
- Sound DesignRashad Becker