Programming

21st Ficdh

The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing

United Kingdom / 2024 / 17 min. / Documentary
Rated: Suitable for people over 13 years old
Language: English, Arabic
Thematic: Environment, Memory, Palestine
Section: Focus on Palestine
Director: Theo Panagopoulos
Contact: theopan9@hotmail.com

Dates, times and locations:

Wednesday June 18 / 9 pm / El Cultural San Martín

Synopsis:

When a Palestinian filmmaker based in Scotland unearths a rarely- seen Scottish film archive of Palestinian wild flowers, he decides to reclaim the footage. This tender essay film questions the role of image-making as a tool of both testimony and violence when connected to entanglements between people and land.

Trailer

Curatorial note:

The land belongs to those who work it, to those who grow up in it, to the flowers, the crops and the ones who have been building their culture there for centuries. The footage in this short film is a fortunate discovery that, used with sensitivity and poetry, portrays decades of violence, oppression, and genocide. These flowers on Palestinian soil bear witness, resist, and remember. Mariano Pozzi
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