Wild Relatives
7.0
Deep in the earth beneath the Norwegian permafrost, seeds from all over the world are stored in the Global Seed Vault to provide a backup should disaster strike. For the first time ever, seeds held there from a major gene bank in Aleppo are now being replicated, after its holdings were left behind when the institution had to move to Lebanon due to the civil war. It is refugees from Syria who are carrying out this painstaking work in the fields of the Beqaa Valley. In the Levant, dry conditions and the power of global agricultural corporations are the biggest challenge, while in the Arctic Circle - where the seed vault was supposed to withstand anything - it is rising temperatures and melting glaciers.
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Jumana Manna Director · Mari Kvien Brunvoll Composer Marte Vold Cinematographer
United States release September 13, 2018 · Produced in Lebanon, Germany, Norway · Languages Arabic, English, Norwegian
Production
Aldeles AS
Production
Lebanon · Germany · Norway
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
Arabic · English · Norwegian
Release dates
France · November 23, 2017
Bordeaux
United States · September 13, 2018
San Francisco Green Film Festival
Denmark
March 21, 2018 · CPH:DOX
Germany
February 16, 2018 · Premiere · Berlin International Film Festival
Netherlands
March 29, 2019 · Arab Film Festival
South Korea
August 11, 2023 · Premiere · Seoul International ALT Cinema & Media Festival
Sweden
January 26, 2019 · Göteborg Film Festival
United Kingdom
June 12, 2018 · Sheffield Doc/Fest
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