Set in the Jabal Al-Shaykh ecological zone, ‘Land Keepers’ follows stewards in South Lebanon, occupied northern Palestine and the occupied Syrian Jawlan, resisting ecocide through care, cultivation and collective documentation.
‘Land Keepers’ is a documentary project set in the Jabal Al-Shaykh ecological zone, spanning South Lebanon, occupied northern Palestine and the occupied Syrian Jawlan. The film traces how warfare, settler-colonial infrastructure and imposed borders have produced ecocide across this shared landscape over time, while communities continue to practise forms of green resistance rooted in care, cultivation and survival.
Developed through long-term, land-based collaboration, the film centres farmers, foragers, herders, beekeepers and local residents who tend the land while documenting its destruction. Attentive to both human and non-human life, ‘Land Keepers’ weaves together on-the-ground footage, community testimony, scientific research and experimental visual elements. By treating documentation as a collective practice, the film acts as a vessel for collective witnessing and resistance. One that reconnects fragmented territories and sustains memory, ecology and life across past and present.

