Filmscreening and talk at Gylleboverket

Sunday 6th October at 1:00 PM at Gylleboverket's cinema

Welcome to Gylleboverket’s cinema for a screening of Jumana Manna’s film Foragers. After the film, Ystad Art Museum’s curator Ellen Klintenberg will have a conversation with Nina Gren, a lecturer in social anthropology at Lund University.

Foragers is a personal, quietly humorous, and warm portrayal of a gentle rebellion and the social community that arises from it. The film follows a group of people in Galilee and Jerusalem who defy the Israeli state's ban on picking certain wild herbs that are central to traditional Palestinian cuisine. According to Israeli authorities, these species are at risk of extinction. However, locals view the legislation as harassment, a way to alienate Palestinians from their land. Jumana Manna uses both fictional and documentary scenes to capture the joy and solidarity within these culinary traditions that the characters continue to protect with determination, despite the serious consequences.

Nina Gren, a lecturer in social anthropology at Lund University, focuses her research on international migration, refugeehood, memory, and political violence. Her 2009 doctoral dissertation explored a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank and the residents' efforts to maintain normalcy. During her post-doctoral work at the University of Copenhagen, she researched Danes and Swedes with Palestinian backgrounds and their connections to Palestine.

Jumana Manna is an artist and filmmaker from Jerusalem, currently based in Berlin. Through sculpture and film, she explores people's relationship with the land they live on and off, focusing on the political and social structures influencing these relationships, seen in agriculture, cultivation, and wild foraging.

The film is in Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles. The discussion following the film will be held in Swedish.

This event is part of “Humans in the Landscape”, a three-part series exploring the relationship between humans and their surrounding nature. In collaboration with ABF Österlen, Ystad Art Museum invites artists and researchers for in-depth discussions. This autumn, the topics include naked soldiers on horseback on the beach, foraging wild herbs on occupied land, and the connections between botany and witch trials.

All events in the series are free of charge and no pre-registration is required.