Seeds of Dignity – Film screening and panel with activists from Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon

On Sunday June 28th in Filmhuis Cavia, we are going to screen Seeds of Dignity (by Ali Alsheikh Khedr) and have a panel on seed sovereignity and international solidarity to strategise collectively how to defend the right to the core of all life: seeds!💥

Seeds of Dignity follows the work of Buzuruna Juzuruna, a grassroots collective of farmers and seed activists in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley who are reclaiming food production from the control of agribusiness and global seed corporations. Through the collection, multiplication, and free distribution of heirloom seeds, they challenge agricultural dependency and work toward food sovereignty across the region.

Set against the backdrop of economic collapse, war, displacement, and the enduring legacies of colonialism, the film explores how struggles over seeds are inseparable from broader struggles for political autonomy, collective self-determination, and social justice. Extending beyond Lebanon, the collective’s networks connect farmers, activists, and communities in Iraq, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, and Europe, demonstrating how agricultural knowledge, care, and resistance can circulate across borders.

At a time when food systems are increasingly shaped by corporate concentration, conflict, and ecological crisis, Seeds of Dignity offers a powerful account of internationalist solidarity from below and of the efforts of farmers and activists to defend the right of communities to control their own food systems, seeds, and futures.