Documentary Feature Film, 87 minutes | English and Arabic with English Subtitles

LOGLINE
A Palestinian-American anthropologist returns to his ancestral homeland, where he finds the olive oil industry in crisis and leads a community of farmers through fair trade, preserving a powerful legacy of food sovereignty, agricultural heritage, and resilience.

SYNOPSIS
Land of Canaan is an award-winning feature documentary offering a rare and intimate portrait of Palestinian farmers and their ancient olive trees — some more than 1,000 years old — as living symbols of heritage, livelihood, and resilience. Land of Canaan showcases farming as both cultural preservation and a vision for the future, highlighting how food sovereignty, environmental stewardship, and economic resilience are deeply intertwined. The film offers audiences a different entry point than we see in the headlines through a grounded, life-affirming story. At a time when Palestinian people, land and livelihoods face ongoing threats of erasure, the film illuminates what is at stake and why it must be protected.

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