Πέμπτη 27 Μαρτίου 2025 στις 19.00
Palestinian Odyssey: Screening of the Documentary "Foragers" (2022)
Join us at Steki Metanaston for a screening of the documentary "Foragers" by Palestinian director Jumana Manna.
This is the fourth event in the "Palestinian Odyssey" series, exploring themes of Palestinian exile, journey and return through cinema. Through bi-weekly screenings at Steki Metanaston, the series will consider how Palestinian documentarians and experimental filmmakers have navigated states of exile, forced and imagined journeys and the right to return.
Film length: 65 min
Languages: Hebrew, Arabic (English subtitles)
Join us at Steki Metanaston for a screening of the drama/documentary "Ouroboros", by Palestinian artist/filmmaker Basma al-Sharif
This is the second event in the "Palestinian Odyssey" series, exploring themes of Palestinian exile, journey and return through cinema. Through bi-weekly screenings at Steki Metanaston, the series will consider how Palestinian documentarians and experimental filmmakers have navigated states of exile, forced and imagined journeys and the right to return.
Film length: 77 min
Languages: Chinook, English, Italian with English subtitles
Doors open: 19:00
Film start: 20:00
An homage to the Gaza Strip, Ouroboros follows a man through five different landscapes, upending mass-mediated representation of trauma. A journey outside of time, marking the end as the beginning, exploring the subject of the eternal return and how we move forward when all is lost.
Based in Los Angeles, Basma Alsharif was born in 1983 in Kuwait to Palestinian parents. Raised in France and the United States, she maintained a strong connection to the Gaza Strip through her family. She received a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Illinois in 2007 and developed her practice nomadically between Gaza, Cairo, Amman, Beirut and Sharjah.
Foragers moves between documentary and fiction to depict the dramas between the Israeli Nature Protection Authority and Palestinian foragers. Israeli laws prohibit the collection of the artichoke-like 'akkoub and za'atar (thyme), with restrictions resulting in 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. With a wry sense of humor, following the plants from the wild to the kitchen, from the chases between the foragers and the nature patrol to courtroom defenses, the film captures the inherited love, resilience, and knowledge of these traditions, over an eminently political backdrop.
source : email received on February 17th 10pm