In solidarity with the Palestinian struggle against occupation and settler colonialism and in response to the urgent crisis, Mizna is offering a retrospective of Palestinian filmmaker Larissa Sansour's groundbreaking sci-fi films available for free to a worldwide audience.
Films are available May 22–29, 2021. Additionally, a discussion between Sansour and critic Kareem Estefan is also available to watch alongside the films. This program and discussion were originally presented as part of the 2020 Arab Film Fest Collab.
This screening is available worldwide for free, and we are asking for donations, all of which will go to aid Palestinians.
All donations will go to UNRWA USA, through the Team Mizna page of the Gaza 5k fundraiser, which is currently seeking funds to respond to emergency needs and to provide mental health support to Palestinian refugees.
A Space Exodus, 2008
Nation Estate, 2012
In the Future They Ate From the Finest Porcelain, 2015
In Vitro, 2019
Larissa Sansour is a Palestinian artist/director. Central to her work is the tug and pull between fiction and reality. In her recent works, she uses science fiction to address social and political issues. Working mainly with film, Sansour also produces installations, photos, and sculptures. Sansour’s work is shown in film festivals and museums worldwide. In 2019, she represented Denmark at the 58th Venice Biennial. She has shown her work at Tate Modern, MoMA, Centre Pompidou, and the Istanbul Biennial as well as the Berlinale, Rotterdam International Film Festival, and BFI London Film Festival. Recent solo exhibitions include Bluecoat in Liverpool, Dar El-Nimer in Beirut and Nikolaj Kunsthal in Copenhagen. Sansour lives and works in London.
In Vitro is set in the aftermath of an eco-disaster. An abandoned nuclear reactor under the biblical town of Bethlehem has been converted into an enormous orchard. Using heirloom seeds collected in the final days before the apocalypse, a group of scientists are preparing to replant the soil above. In the hospital wing of the underground compound, the orchard’s ailing founder, 70-year-old Dunia is lying on her deathbed, and 30-year-old Alia comes to visit her. Alia was born underground as part of a comprehensive cloning program and has never seen the town she’s destined to rebuild.
- Year2019
- Runtime28 minutes
- LanguageArabic
- CountryPalestine
- DirectorLarissa Sansour, Søren Lind
- ScreenwriterSøren Lind
- ProducerAli Roche
- CastHiam Abbass, Maisa Abd Elhadi, Marah Abu Srour
- CinematographerAnna Valdez Hanks
- MusicNiklas Schak
In solidarity with the Palestinian struggle against occupation and settler colonialism and in response to the urgent crisis, Mizna is offering a retrospective of Palestinian filmmaker Larissa Sansour's groundbreaking sci-fi films available for free to a worldwide audience.
Films are available May 22–29, 2021. Additionally, a discussion between Sansour and critic Kareem Estefan is also available to watch alongside the films. This program and discussion were originally presented as part of the 2020 Arab Film Fest Collab.
This screening is available worldwide for free, and we are asking for donations, all of which will go to aid Palestinians.
All donations will go to UNRWA USA, through the Team Mizna page of the Gaza 5k fundraiser, which is currently seeking funds to respond to emergency needs and to provide mental health support to Palestinian refugees.
A Space Exodus, 2008
Nation Estate, 2012
In the Future They Ate From the Finest Porcelain, 2015
In Vitro, 2019
Larissa Sansour is a Palestinian artist/director. Central to her work is the tug and pull between fiction and reality. In her recent works, she uses science fiction to address social and political issues. Working mainly with film, Sansour also produces installations, photos, and sculptures. Sansour’s work is shown in film festivals and museums worldwide. In 2019, she represented Denmark at the 58th Venice Biennial. She has shown her work at Tate Modern, MoMA, Centre Pompidou, and the Istanbul Biennial as well as the Berlinale, Rotterdam International Film Festival, and BFI London Film Festival. Recent solo exhibitions include Bluecoat in Liverpool, Dar El-Nimer in Beirut and Nikolaj Kunsthal in Copenhagen. Sansour lives and works in London.
In Vitro is set in the aftermath of an eco-disaster. An abandoned nuclear reactor under the biblical town of Bethlehem has been converted into an enormous orchard. Using heirloom seeds collected in the final days before the apocalypse, a group of scientists are preparing to replant the soil above. In the hospital wing of the underground compound, the orchard’s ailing founder, 70-year-old Dunia is lying on her deathbed, and 30-year-old Alia comes to visit her. Alia was born underground as part of a comprehensive cloning program and has never seen the town she’s destined to rebuild.
- Year2019
- Runtime28 minutes
- LanguageArabic
- CountryPalestine
- DirectorLarissa Sansour, Søren Lind
- ScreenwriterSøren Lind
- ProducerAli Roche
- CastHiam Abbass, Maisa Abd Elhadi, Marah Abu Srour
- CinematographerAnna Valdez Hanks
- MusicNiklas Schak