The Burr of Berwick: Wild Relatives – film (60 mins) + relaxed discussion (20 mins)
Date: 17th August 2024
Time: 2:00-3.20 PM (seated time)
Location: The Straw Yard, Parade, TD15 1DF
In collaboration with the Berwick Food and Beer Festival, The Burr of Berwick will host a film screening of Wild Relatives directed by Jumana Manna followed by a discussion at The Straw Yard. The event features a community film screening in a relaxed cinema setting, followed by an informal discussion co-hosted by Sustainable Food Berwick.
Come and enjoy a film & conversation together in the new Straw Yard Theatre during the Food & Beer Festival!
Admission: Entry to the screening is included in the standard Food & Beer Festival admission. Passes to the Food & Beer Festival are available on the door. Passes start at £7.50. We will take reservations for this screening at the ticket office for the Food Festival, so make sure to secure your seat on arrival.
Find out more about Berwick Food & Beer Festival here.
Presented by Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival in collaboration with Sustainable Food Berwick, pioneers of Berwick Food and Beer Festival.
Wild Relatives
Wild Relatives draws lines between three distant spots on the world map: Syria, Lebanon and Svalbard. The lines chart a route and a complex network of relationships. ‘Wild Relatives’ exposes the exchange of ecological currency between two of the world’s grain banks, which are the archives of the smallest basic ingredient of agriculture: Seeds. Biodiversity, conflicts and international politics are parts of a game with perspectives reaching far out into the most distant future, and form the basis for a humorous and thought-provoking conversation between a priest and a scientist far out in the middle of nowhere. The protagonists in the game of the precious grains share a common understanding of the perspectives of their mission, which stretches beyond the unpredictable political present age that they are forced to navigate. Manna works in the field between documentary filmmaking and a research-based artistic practice, with a special eye for both human and abstract political relations.