FORAGERS: A BENEFIT FOR PALESTINIAN CHILDREN IN GAZA

Thursday, April 11, 2024
Olympia Film Society and Rachel Corrie Foundation present:
Foragers
A Birthday Celebration for Rachel Corrie
6:00pm doors & 7pm Film
$13 GA & $10 OFS
All Proceeds Benefit Palestinian Children in Gaza
Introduction by Cindy Corrie
Post-film presentation and Q&A by Savinna Chowdhury, Political Economy, and Environmental Justice Professor at T.E.S.C. (The Evergreen State College) and Peter Bohmer of P.A.S.S. (Palestine Action of the South Sound)
Olympita, the Palestinian owned food truck, will have a pop up serving Za’atar pie and other delicious food!
Foragers depicts the dramas around the practice of foraging for wild edible plants in Palestine/Israel with wry humor and a meditative pace. Shot in the Golan Heights, the Galilee and Jerusalem, it employs fiction, documentary and archival footage to portray the impact of Israeli nature protection laws on these customs. The restrictions prohibit the collection of the artichoke-like ’akkoub and za’atar (thyme), and have resulted in fines and trials for hundreds caught collecting these native plants. For Palestinians, these laws constitute an ecological veil for legislation that further alienates them from their land while Israeli state representatives insist on their scientific expertise and duty to protect. Following the plants from the wild to the kitchen, from the chases between the foragers and the nature patrol, to courtroom defenses, Foragers captures the joy and knowledge embodied in these traditions alongside their resilience to the prohibitive law. By reframing the terms and constraints of preservation, the film raises questions around the politics of extinction, namely who determines what is made extinct and what gets to live on.
Dir: Jumana Manna / 2022 / Occupied Palestinian Territory / 64 min

SCREENING: THU 4/11 7PM

Tickets are available online now and at the box office 60 minutes before showtime.