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Wild Relatives

director: Jumana Manna

original title: Wild Relatives

country: Lebanon, Norway, Germany

year: 2018

running time: 66 min.

synopsis

This observational film essay on our relations with the natural wealth is based on a real event and seed banks storing quantities of seeds of various plants in case of a global catastrophe. The film documents three places with different traditions related to the land – Aleppo, Lebanon, and Svalbard.

biography

The Palestinian multimedia artist Jumana Manna (1987) is the author of A Magical Substance Flows into Me (2015), a documentary film about musical tradition in the Palestinian-Israeli region.

more about film

director:	Jumana Manna
producer:	Jumana Manna, Elisabeth Kleppe
script:	Jumana Manna
photography:	Marte Vold
editing:	Katrin Ebersohn
music:	Mari Kvien Brunvoll
sound:	Rawad Hobeika , Philippe Ciompi

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