The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing
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When a Palestinian filmmaker based in Scotland unearths a rarely seen Scottish film archive of Palestinian wildflowers, he decides to reclaim the footage. This tender essay film questions the role of image making as a tool of both testimony and violence when connected to entanglements between people and land.
Directors Spotlight
Theo Panagopoulos
Director
Theo Panagopoulos is a Greek-Lebanese-Palestinian filmmaker and PhD researcher based in Scotland. His work explores themes of collective memory, displacement, fragmented identity and language in an equally sensitive and political way.
- Year 2024
- Runtime 17 minutes
- Country United Kingdom
- Language English, Arabic
- Director Theo Panagopoulos
- Producer Marissa Keating
- Editor Theo Panagopoulos
- Composer Alexandra Katerinopoulou
- Sound Design Hannan Jones
- Music Alexandra Katerinopoulou
- Premiere Philadelphia
