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Foragers explores the practice of foraging wild edible plants in Palestine/Israel. Blending fiction, documentary, and archival footage, it examines the impact of Israeli laws restricting the collection of native plants like ’akkoub and za’atar, highlighting the tension between traditional practices and state-enforced conservation. The film raises questions about the politics of preservation and the power to decide what is allowed to endure.
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Where Nature Ends and Settlements Begin

Jumana Manna


I came back home in spring to shoot a film about foraging wild food. At its heart, it is a chase film between the Israeli Nature Patrol and elderly Palestinians who gather plants listed as protected species, particularly the wild-growing, artichoke-like tumble thistle ‘akkoub, aka “green gold.” Still in the making, this film is ultimately concerned with what is made extinct and what gets to live on; who gets to decide the fate of herb-picking cultures, and the options that remain for those who don’t. Food manifests as a container for family and community histories tied to land—traditions that face suppression encoded into the legal dynamic of nature protection. The shoot has been cancelled due to the Covid-19 lockdown, and instead, I find myself quarantined with my parents in Shu’fat, East Jerusalem.



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