we would be freer | Revolutions Bundle | 2025 MENA Film Festival

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we would be freer is a short film that reflects on indigenous relationships to wild plants under settler-colonialism. The film travels from one occupied land to another through the voices of two women, one from the Mohawk community of KahnawÃ¡:ke and the other an internally displaced refugee in Ramallah, as it submerges viewers in the life cycle of the sumac plant.

Year
2023
Runtime
8.68 minutes
Language
English, Arabic
Country
Canada, Palestine

Director
Rana Nazzal Hamadeh

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Symptom

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we would be freer

This short film weaves between the voices of two women, one from the Mohawk community of KahnawÃ¡:ke and the other an internally displaced refugee in Ramallah, as they reflect on their relationships to sumac.