Director | Theo Panagopoulos
Editing | Theo Panagopoulos
Sound designer | Hannan Jones
Composer | Alexandra Katerinopoulou
Producer | Marissa Keating
Production company | Scottish Documentary Institute
When a Palestinian filmmaker based in Scotland unearths a rarely-seen Scottish film archive of Palestinian wild flowers, 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.
About the 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. He has directed multiple short films that have screened in festivals such London Short Film Festival, Encounters, DocLisboa, Thessaloniki Documentary Festival among others. In 2024 he completed two commissioned films, a fiction short called “The Key”, supported by Screen Scotland and BFI Network and a documentary essay film called “The flowers stand silently, witnessing.” supported by the Scottish Documentary Institute and Screen Scotland.