Jumana Manna Film Festival
Friday, November 7, 2025 – Saturday, November 8, 2025Lecture Hall and JJKH (W15) Cafe
November 7, 6-9 pm
November 8, 11 am-3 pm
We warmly welcome you to join us at the Jumana Manna Film Festival, taking place on the 7th and 8th of November 2025. Jumana Manna is a Palestinian filmmaker and visual artist, based in Jerusalem and Berlin. The event includes a screening of all three of Manna’s award-winning feature-length films. Her 2015 film A Magical Substance Flows into Me will kick off the festival on November 7th at 18:00 in the P98 Lecture Hall, followed by a discussion with BCB faculty Sinem Kılıç. The following day, Foragers and Wild Relatives will be screened in the JJK (W15) Cafe, at 11:00 and 14:00, respectively. In between these screenings, festival goers will have the opportunity to engage in discussions about forgeable plants from around Berlin, and explore the campus plants with BCB’s own Janina Schabig. After this break, Wild Relatives will be shown, and the film festival will close on a discussion with special guest Mikhail Lylov, who facilitates connections between human and ecological communities in the Spore Initiative’s garden. Our discussion will engage in the topic of seed movement throughout Manna’s film, and their movement in Berlin.
We hope to see many of you there, and a huge thank you to Jumana Manna for allowing us to share her work with our community.
*This event is open to all, please feel free to invite anyone who may be interested
Screening times:
November 7 at 6pm: A Magical Substance Flows into Me (2015), followed by a discussion with Sinem Kılıç – Lecture Hall
November 8 at 11am: Foragers (2022), followed by an exploration of forgeable plants on campus with Janina Schabig - JJK (W15) Cafe
November 8 at 2pm: Wild Relatives (2018), followed by a discussion with Mikhail Lylov- JJK (W15) Cafe
Organized and moderated by Zoë Nation, Camas Oxford, and Agata Lisiak