Agenda
Cinema of Resistance #3
We invite you to our recurring program: “Cinema of Resistance”.
This thursday we show the award winning movie: Foragers.
This is a ticketed event. We will organise a workshop and dinner with the movie, tickets must be purchased beforehand.
Foragers (Jumana Manna, 2022) depicts the dramas around the practice of foraging for wild edible plants in Palestine 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. The restrictions prohibit the collection of the artichoke-like ’akkoub and za’atar (thyme), and have resulted in fines and trials for hundreds caught collecting these native plants. For Palestinians, these laws constitute an ecological veil for legislation that further alienates them from their land while Israeli state representatives insist on their scientific expertise and duty to protect. 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.
The film will be subtitled in English.
Cinema of Resistance #2
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We invite you to our bi-monthly recurring movie showing: "Cinema of Resistance". Thursday 12th of september we’ll show the movie: Lemon Tree. Entry, Palestinian bites and the movie poster are available for a small donation. Drinks and merchandise can be bought during the event.
The wonderful Hiam Abbass is Salma, a Palestinian widow who earns her living tending to her late father's lemon grove. When an Israeli government minister moves next door and declares the grove a potential security threat, Salma struggles to defend her peaceful livelihood. Personal drama gives way to political controversies as Salma forms an unexpected bond with the minister's lonely wife, and takes her protest - with the help of her young lawyer - all the way to the Israeli Supreme Court. A dramatic and cinematic depiction of actual events.
The language in the film is spoken in Arabic and Hebrew and will be subtitled in English.
