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15 Sep 2022 · Elderly Palestinians are caught between their right to forage their own land and the harsh restrictions imposed by their occupiers on the basis of preservation.
Foragers depicts the dramas 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.
Foragers interweaves documentary and fiction to report on a searing conflict between the Israel Nature and Parks Authority and Palestinian foragers. Through an elaborate and elegant composition, the film successfully captures the inherited love, resilience and knowledge of these traditions, over an eminently political backdrop.
FORAGERS a film by JUMANA MANNA. 2022. France. 64 min. A Palestinian community’s love of collecting wild plants becomes a gesture of resistance. This film screened exclusively for a week and is currently not available online.
Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema. Follows the intersections of power and sustenance around foraging practices – the gathering of wild food plants – in Palestine, and the Galilee in particular.
17 Sep 2023 · Through archival footage, scripted reenactments, and interviews, Foragers explores how the traditional Palestinian practice of foraging wild plants—namely the artichoke-like ’akkoub and za’atar (thyme)—is criminalized by the Israeli government in the name of nature conservation.
Join us for a screening of Palestinian artist and filmmaker Jumana Manna’s latest film Foragers. Shot in the Golan Heights, the Galilee and Jerusalem, Foragers focuses on the traditional Palestinian practices of foraging for the artichoke-like ‘akkoub and za’atar (thyme).
