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Grounded

Culinary Cinema

Archive - Festival 40

  • Archive - Festival 40
  • Director: Shady Srour
  • Israel 2024
  • 60 minutes
  • Arabic
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, Arabic

Traditional cuisine is much more than just food—it is a living expression of identity, memories, and heritage. Its ingredients are rooted in the land's geography and seasons, while its flavors reflect its conflicts and politics. Palestinian cuisine carries within it a blend of popular, personal, and feminine history; it intertwines with the narrative found in books, adds depth to it, and brings it to life.

Cook and culinary historian Muzna Bishara embarks on an eight-chapter journey, one that also explores a vanishing generation of women who preserve the memory of rural cooking. Each chapter focuses on a key ingredient or raw material, its region of cultivation, its season, and a local family who works with it. Olives, sumac, akoub, and eggplants are among the foundational elements that shape the flavor of the land—stories that Muzna seeks to uncover, offering a new way to touch the tragic history of her people.

Two episodes will be screened as part of the festival's program.

Filmography: Holy Air (2017)

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  • Director Shady Srour
  • Production Hilla Medalia
  • Co-Producer Rotem Heyman
  • Cinematography Avner Shahaf
  • Editing Naaman Bishara, Miri Laufer
  • Music Daniel Markovich