The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing
Director: Theo Panagopoulos
Country: United Kingdom
Year: 2024
Length: 17'
Genre: documentary
Music: Alexandra Katerinopoulou
Sound design: Hannan Jones
Production company: Scottish Documentary Institute
A Scotland-based filmmaker of Palestinian descent unearths a rarely-seen Scottish archive of Palestinian wildflowers – silent 16mm films shot by a missionary in the 1930s–40s – and reclaims the footage. A tender essay on image-making as both testimony and violence.