Broken Cameras
Foragers
Salt Beyoğlu, Online
April 4 – May 5, 2024
![Foragers Jm Akkoub <i>Foragers</i> [Toplayıcılar] (2022) filminden bir kare
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Still from Foragers (2022)
©Jumana Manna
©Jumana Manna
April 4, 19.00, Salt Beyoğlu, Walk-in Cinema
April 29-May 5, saltonline.org
Foragers (2022)
Director: Jumana Manna
65 minutes
Hebrew, Arabic; Turkish subtitles
Artist and filmmaker Jumanna Manna explores the political and ecological effects of settler-colonialism on Palestinian land. Shot in the Golan Heights, the Galilee, and Jerusalem, Foragers traces the Palestinian practice of foraging za’atar (a thyme-like herb) and ‘akkoub (a wild artichoke-like plant) and the impact of Israeli nature protection laws, which prohibit the collection of these native plants.
Employing fiction, documentary, and archival footage, the film portrays how these restrictions are part of the broader politics of the continued erasure of Palestinian culture. As a way of preserving values and tradition, foraging becomes an act of resistance and resilience against alienation from land. Following the plants from the wild to the kitchen, from the chases between the foragers and the nature patrol to courtroom defenses, Foragers poetically captures how memory is embedded in these ecological practices while raising questions around the politics of extinction.
Following the Walk-in Cinema screening on Thursday, April 4 at 19.00, the film will be streamed at saltonline.org between April 29-May 5. The film will be streamed in its original language with Turkish subtitles, and can be accessed online globally.
In accordance with Article 7 of Law No. 5224 amended on 18.01.2019, films that have not been assessed and classified by the General Directorate of Cinema, Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Republic of Turkey, can only be screened under the classification of 18+ at festivals, special screenings or similar culture and arts events.
April 29-May 5, saltonline.org
Foragers (2022)
Director: Jumana Manna
65 minutes
Hebrew, Arabic; Turkish subtitles
Artist and filmmaker Jumanna Manna explores the political and ecological effects of settler-colonialism on Palestinian land. Shot in the Golan Heights, the Galilee, and Jerusalem, Foragers traces the Palestinian practice of foraging za’atar (a thyme-like herb) and ‘akkoub (a wild artichoke-like plant) and the impact of Israeli nature protection laws, which prohibit the collection of these native plants.
Employing fiction, documentary, and archival footage, the film portrays how these restrictions are part of the broader politics of the continued erasure of Palestinian culture. As a way of preserving values and tradition, foraging becomes an act of resistance and resilience against alienation from land. Following the plants from the wild to the kitchen, from the chases between the foragers and the nature patrol to courtroom defenses, Foragers poetically captures how memory is embedded in these ecological practices while raising questions around the politics of extinction.
Following the Walk-in Cinema screening on Thursday, April 4 at 19.00, the film will be streamed at saltonline.org between April 29-May 5. The film will be streamed in its original language with Turkish subtitles, and can be accessed online globally.
