SYNOPSIS
Foragers moves between documentary and action to depict the dramas between the Israeli Nature Protection Authority and Palestinian foragers. With a wry sense of humor, the film captures the inherited love, resilience and knowledge of these traditions, over an eminently political backdrop.
CAST & CREW
Jumana Manna
Director
Producer(s)
Jumana Manna
Director of Photography
Marte Vold, Ashraf Dowani, Yaniv Linton
Music by
Rashad Becker
Sound
Rashad Becker
Edit
Jumana Manna, Katrin Ebersohn
Cast
Aziza Manna, Adel Manna, Zeidan Hajib, Mahmoud Shawahde
Jumana Manna
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 inheritances and histories of place. Through sculpture, filmmaking, and occasional writing, Manna deals with the paradoxes of preservation practices, particularly within the elds of archaeology, agriculture and law. Her practice considers the tension between the modernist traditions of categorisation and conservation and the unruly potential of ruination as an integral part of life and its regeneration. Jumana Manna was raised in Jerusalem and lives in Berlin. She has participated in multiple film festivals including Berlinale, Viennale, BAFICI, IFFR, Cairo Cinema Days, Goteborg FF, Ambulante, Cinéma du Réel, Art of the Real. Her Wild Relatives (2018) won CPH:DOX’s New Visions Award, Sheeld Doc’s Environmental Film Award, DokuFest Kosovo’s Green Dox Award, and Palestine Cinema Days’ Sunbird Award.
Filmography
Blessed Blessed Oblivion (short, 2010), The Umpire Whispers (short, 2010), A Sketch of Manners (short, 2013), Jumana Manna & Sille Storihle (short, 2013), A Magical Substance Flows into Me (2015) Wild Relatives (2018), Foragers (2022).
