Join the Art Museum at the University of Toronto for a screening of the film Foragers (2022) by Palestinian artist and filmmaker Jumana Manna. The film follows foragers of ‘akkoub, a quintessential plant of Palestinian cuisine and culture. Israeli authorities have prohibited the foraging of ‘akkoub since 2006, making it one among many edibles that have been outlawed. Manna captures the harsh reality of foraging for ‘akkoub in Palestine, the absurdities and ever-present anxiety, as well as the continuity it produces through its cyclical nature—returning to the same landscapes, engaging in the same gestures, and following seasonal rhythms.

This event is presented as a program of the exhibition Little and Often, on view in the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery through August 1, 2026.

This screening is free and open to the public. Registration is recommended.

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Jumana Manna is a visual artist and filmmaker. Her work explores the articulations of power through the body, land and materiality in relation to colonial inheritances and histories of place. Moving between the seemingly divergent media of film, abstract sculpture, and collage, Manna addresses how performing bodies, material fragments, and landscapes both desire and narrate pasts, presents, futures that remain excessive to the violences imposed upon them. Her recent work has dealt with the paradoxes of preservation – particularly with regards to land practices and the law – probing the tension between the modernist traditions of categorisation and conservation and the unruliness of ruination, life and regeneration.

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Image: Jumana Manna, Foragers (2022) in Hollybush Gardens, London, UK. Photo: Eva Herzog.