The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing

The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing
  • Theo Panagopoulos
  • UK
2024
17'
Screening schedule
  • Friday, 14. November 2025.
  • 19:30
  • KIC
  • free entry until capacity


When a Palestinian filmmaker based in Scotland unearths a rarely seen Scottish film archive of Palestinian wildflowers, he decides to reclaim the footage. This tender essay film questions the role of image-making as a tool of both testimony and violence when connected to entanglements between people and land.


Theo Panagopoulos
Theo Panagopoulos

Theo Panagopoulos is a Greek-Lebanese-Palestinian filmmaker based in Scotland. His work explores themes of collective memory, displacement, gragmented identities and archives. He has directed multiple short films that screen in reputable festivals such as Sundance, Doc Lisboa, Thessaloniki among others and his most recent film called and his most recent film THE FLOWERS STAND SILENTLY, WITNESSING (2024) won the best short film award at IDFA 2024. He is currently completing his PhD research on colonial film archives connected to 1930s Palestine.


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