Mizna Film Series

Larissa Sansour Retrospective

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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.

Combining live-action and computer-generated imagery, In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain explores the role of myth in history, fact, and national identity. A narrative resistance group makes underground deposits of elaborate porcelain, which they suggest belonged to an entirely fictional civilization. Their aim is to influence history and support future claims to their vanishing lands.

  • Year
    2015
  • Runtime
    29 minutes
  • Language
    Arabic
  • Country
    Palestine
  • Director
    Larissa Sansour, Søren Lind
  • Screenwriter
    Søren Lind
  • Producer
    Ali Roche
  • Cast
    Leyla Ertosun, Anna Aldridge, Pooneh Hajimohammadi