The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing (Documentary)
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Director: Theo Panagopoulos
Producer: Marissa Keating
In this Sundance Short Film Grand Jury Prize winner, A Palestinian filmmaker unearths – and decides to reclaim – rare footage of his homeland filmed by Scottish missionaries in the 1930s and 40s.
Assembled from vibrantly saturated 16mm footage and overlaid with poetic reflections, this remarkable document of Palestine before the Nakba serves as a profound time capsule – albeit through the lens of settlers – of a region since shattered by decades of conflict. Theo Panagopoulos’s documentary short is a tender meditation on the role of image-making, the power of archive, and the relationship between a people and their land.