Opening and closing, Palestine and the memory of the Nakba persist in nature. In The Reconnaissance, an imaginary conversation between Pasolini and Robert Smithson: the quest for a film. Surface Rites features a location in Ontario, populated by symbols of a Slovak village, prize-winning cows, and teenage zombies wandering where First Nations peoples once lived. In A River and a Queen, we hear stories and myths of a territory scarred by destruction from water and fire. In the end, while searching for the ruins of a village razed in 1948, Mograbi and his Arabic teacher find wild asparagus.

Aligned with BDS rules for spaces free of apartheid, and owing to some of the film’s funding institutions, Doclisboa will not screen Once I Entered a Garden in this programme. It can be streamed at avimograbi.org.