Falasteen on Film and Flatpack present short and medium-length films by three Palestinian artists exploring themes of rootedness, identity, memory and legacy in Palestine, accompanied by a foraging workshop to promote connection with our environment.

Surreal imagery from Google Streetview, Google Maps, Wikipedia and 20th century colonial photography are combined in two essays on displacement and the erasure of Palestinian history and presence (Your Father Was Born 100 Years Old, And So Was the Nakba and Canada Park).

In Vitro is set in the aftermath of an eco-disaster. An abandoned nuclear reactor under the biblical town of Bethlehem has been converted into an enormous orchard. A group of scientists are preparing to replant the soil above.

When an international agricultural research centre was forced to relocate from Aleppo to Lebanon, its seeds needed to be replaced from the seed vault in Svalbard. Following this transaction of seeds, a series of encounters unfold a matrix of human and non-human lives between these two distant spots of the earth. (Wild Relatives)

Timings

17:00 - shorts by Razan AlSalah play twice

17:30 - foraging workshop

18:45 - In Vitro + Wild Relatives

20:45 - end