Keyword Flora

A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.

In a post-apocalyptic world devoid of plant life, a lone survivor fights desperately to reclaim hope and life. Upon unexpectedly discovering seeds, she risks everything to cultivate humanity’s last plant.

The film follows journeys of observational tours solicited by the Palestinian Museum and conducted by two professors from Birzeit University to collect photos of and information on the Palestinian Flora. The title is adapted from a collection of 123 images (circa 1900 to 1920) of wild flowers in Palestine found in the Matson Collection in the Library of Congress. Despite the tendency to trace the wild plants, the text in general aims at questioning the territorial extension of what is meant by the term “Palestinian”, while standing on insignificant topographical features of the (postcolonial) landscape in West Bank. Furthermore, it addresses photography as a practice and a tool of distributing and restricting information at once.

Aimed at children, particularly children between the ages of three and six, this series portrays the culture and importance of preserving the Amazonian fauna and flora through the routine of characters typical of the region who live in a stream being represented in the form of dolls.