Screening · Foragers
Dates
- Date:
- 18 April
- Time:
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18:30 - 21:00
Venue
- Mundo Matonge
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rue d'edimbourg 26
Bruxelles, 1050 Belgique - 028930870
Quinoa offers its film meet-ups based on a subject chosen collectively. The formula? A social issue that speaks to us; a film that excites us, because it questions the system and proposes alternatives; a ‘home-made’ animation that leaves room for the audience; discussions with or without guests, offering a kind space for exchange.
We will be screening the documentary film “Foragers” by Palestinian director Jumana Manna (2022 – 65 minutes – Arabic with french subtitles) on Thursday the 18th of April at 6.30pm. This event is part of the Nourrir Bruxelles festival and is organised in collaboration with the Début des Haricots and the CNCD 11.11.11.
“Foragers” depicts the practice of wild plant gathering —foraging—–in Palestine. Shot in the Golan Heights, Galilee and Jerusalem, the film uses fiction, documentary and archival footage to present the impact of Israel’s protectionist laws on native Palestinian customs and ways of life.
The film follows the restrictions prohibiting the collection of ‘akkoub (cardoon, a member of the artichoke family) and za’atar (thyme). They have led to fines and court cases for hundreds of Palestinians caught foraging these local plants. The foragers are persistant, out of necessity but also defiance, in order to honour an ancestral practices and to refuse to bow to the colonial Israeli authority.
This is green colonialism: for Palestinians, these laws have a thin ecological veil behind which the legislation only aims to distance them even further from their land, while representatives of the Israeli state insist on their scientific expertise and their duty to ‘protect’ resources that they claim are on the brink of extinction.
Following plants from the wild to the kitchen, and the chase between foragers and patrollers to courtrooms, ‘Foragers’ captures the joy and knowledge embodied in these traditions, as well as the resilience and resistance in the face of prohibitive colonial laws.
After the film, we’ll have the pleasure of talking with:
– Shayma Nader, an artist, curator and researcher from Palestine. Her research-led practice is concerned with anticolonial, antidisciplinary and land-centred imaginaries and practices. She is currently a PhD candidate in artistic research at ARIA at Sint Lucas School of Arts (KdG) and University of Antwerp. ;
– Rand Iwidat, an independent Palestinian researcher and a recent graduate from KU Leuven. She specialises in cultural sociology. Her masters research explored agroecology in the West Bank, and the way it is utilised to challenge socioeconomic and political paradigms in the context of settler-colonialism.
The film will be screened in arabic with French subtitles
The talk will be in English, French translation available for those who desire.
Pay-what-you-can entrance fee. We invite you to register to the event !
““We come from the soil and we go back to the soil. We must safeguard the rights of our children through the soil we are borrowing from them”
Program + registration
6.30 : doors opening – bar and appetizers
7.30 : film
8.15 : debate
Mundo-Matonge (26 Edimburg street 1050 Ixelles)
Film Director
Jumana Manna is a visual artist and filmmaker. Her work explores how power is articulated, focusing on the body, land and materiality in relation to colonial legacies and histories of place. Through sculpture, film, and occasional writing, Jumana addresses the paradoxes of preservation practices, particularly in the fields of architecture, agriculture, and law. His practice considers the tension between modernist traditions of categorization and conservation and the unruly character of ruin, life and its regeneration. Jumana grew up in Jerusalem and lives in Berlin.
Le début des haricots
Le Debut des Haricots defines itself as a Brussels non-profit organization which contributes to a fair and resilient agri-food system through the development of peasant urban agriculture and sustainable food.
CNCD 11.11.11.
The CNCD 11.11.11 is an umbrella of NGOs, of which Quinoa is a part, and a citizen movement active for more than half a century in the service of international solidarity, in the promotion of a just and sustainable world.
Nourrir Bruxelles
4th edition of the Nourrir Bruxelles festival from April 11 to 21, 2024 in Brussels10 days of shows, debates, workshops, urban walks, solidarity meals, farm visits, etc. So many opportunities to collectively reflect on food sovereignty and understand the struggles ecologists from feminist, decolonial, popular perspectives, etc. This year, more than 50 partners are organizing activities across the Brussels region on the issues of food transition and social justice. Discover the program.
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