LONDON PALESTINE FILM FESTIVAL 2026
NOVEMBER 13 - 27
LAND OF CANAAN
MAGGIE LEMERE, 2025, 84'
thursday 26 NOVEMBER | 18:00
Rio Cinema, 107 Kingsland High St, London E8 2PB
Returning to his West Bank village, Nasser Abufarha finds farmers abandoning ancient olive groves. He builds a movement to protect their land, preserving the ecosystem and thousands of years of ecological knowledge.
The son of a watermelon farmer, Nasser Abufarha returned from America in 2003. Farmers face threats to their traditional practices and centuries-old farming knowledge from exploitative middlemen, global agribusiness, the Occupation and expanding settlements. Land of Canaan reveals the farmers’ deep relationship with the land and trees, telling a nuanced story of love and connection to place, while following Abufarha as he develops new ways of organising socially and economically around the land and the communities who depend on it.
This screening is presented in partnership with Zaytoun.