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Agenda: Soon ?

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01 — 17.05.26

Eye On Palestine:

Eye On Palestine: Nazeh Map

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Sunday 17.05.26

Eye On Palestine:

Eye on Palestine: Foragers

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29 — 31.05.26

Opening Weekend:

Opening weekend: Asad Raza — Untitled (plot for dialogue)

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17 — 26.07.26

Gentse Feesten: Endless Exhibition (open every day)

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Thursday 12.11.26

Democrazy:

Tanya Donelly & Chris Brokaw

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Full Archive

Agenda: Archive

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Wednesday 13.05.26

Eye On Palestine:

Talk: The Two-state Solution Trap: Alternatives to Partition and Statist Logics in Palestine

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27.04 — 13.05.26

Eye On Palestine:

Eye On Palestine Festival

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Sluiten

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Eye On Palestine

Sunday 03.05.26

Splinter vzw:

Eye on Palestine: Wild relatives

Eye On Palestine, Splinter vzw,and Kunsthal Gent present an evening featuring Wild relatives, a film by Jumana Manna.

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Wild Relatives:

Deep in the earth beneath the Arctic permafrost, seeds from all over the world are stored in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault to provide a backup should disaster strike. Wild Relatives starts from an event that has sparked media interest worldwide: in 2012 an international agricultural research center was forced to relocate from Aleppo to Lebanon due to the Syrian Revolution turned war, and began a laborious process of planting their seed collection from the Svalbard back-ups. Following the path of this transaction of seeds between the Arctic and Lebanon, a series of encounters unfold a matrix of human and non-human lives between these two distant spots of the earth. It captures the articulation between this large-scale international initiative and its local implementation in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon, carried out primarily by young migrant women. The meditative pace patiently teases out tensions between state and individual, industrial and organic approaches to seed saving, climate change and biodiversity, witnessed through the journey of these seeds.

Languages: English, Norwegian, Arabic

Subtitles: English

Eye On Palestine is a platform of cultural players and civil society organisations from Ghent, who want to visualise the Palestinian issue through art in various disciplines with room for reflection during debates and lectures. All proceeds from the festival will be donated to the Ghassan Abu Sittah Children’s Fund (GASCF), a charitable fund dedicated to providing specialized medical care to children in Gaza and Lebanon who have sustained severe injuries due to war violence.

Jumana Manna

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.

Manna is Moving Image Associate Chair at Bard’s MFA program, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. She was previously a visiting lecturer at Harvard University, the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, and has taught at Homeworks Space Program, Beirut and Birzeit University, Palestine. Jumana is represented by Hollybush Gardens Gallery, and her films are distributed by LUX. She lives in Jerusalem and Berlin.

Eye On Palestine

Eye on Palestine aims to introduce the public to Palestinian and international directors, artists, writers, musicians, scientists and activists. Together they provide a unique view of the lives of Palestinians and their resistance to occupation, colonialism, Zionism and apartheid.