Flip the Script Fest 2024

Foragers + Blessed Blessed Oblivion

Expired October 20, 2024 4:45 AM
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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.


  • Year
    2022
  • Runtime
    65 minutes
  • Language
    Arabic, Hebrew
  • Country
    Palestine
  • Content Warning
    themes 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
  • Director
    Jumana Manna
  • Screenwriter
    Jumana Manna, Rabea Eghbariah
  • Producer
    Jumana Manna
  • Cast
    Aziza Manna, Adel Manna, Zeidan Hajib
  • Cinematographer
    Ashraf Dowani
  • Editor
    Jumana Manna, Katrin Ebersohn
  • Sound Design
    Rashad Becker