
Land of Canaan
Directed by Maggie Lemere- Human Rights, Leon & Mary Strauss Documentary Spotlight, Women in Film
- United States
- Arabic, English
- Subtitled
- 2025
- 87 mins
Land of Canaan depicts the evolving and nurturing relationship between farming families and thousands-of-year-old olive trees in the Palestinian West Bank, illuminating how old-growth trees are not only integral to Palestinian culture–but provide wellbeing, resilience, and economic opportunity in a time of environmental and political crisis.