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Make Hummus Not War NL premiere
Documentary | Trevor Graham | Australia | 2012 | 82 min | Multilingual spoken | English subtitlesVoorstelling 1: Saturday 23 March 12:30 | Studio/K 1
Voorstelling 2: Sunday 24 March 17:00 | Studio/K 1
The ‘hummus war’ between Israel, Lebanon and Palestine, which erupted in 2008, whet the appetite of filmmaker and hummus fanatic Trevor Graham. He discovered a culinary conflict that is raging as fiercely as any other Arab-Israeli conflict. Make Hummus Not War is a humorous homage to the dish, but also a personal story about a soldier who served in Palestine during WWII.
Hummus has been prepared since time immemorial. Israelis, Lebanese, Syrians, Egyptians, Jordanians, Palestinians, Turks and Iraqis all claim it as their own. Across the Middle East, it ignites intense rivalry over who has the best recipe, who discovered it and who can make the largest amount.
Make Hummus Not War is a film about a war; a war without soldiers, guns and tanks, just lots and lots of chickpeas. We follow Graham’s journey through the hummus bars and kitchens of Beirut, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and New York. Along the way he meets famous gastronomes, fans, biblical characters, political activists, chickpea farmers and sheikhs, for whom hummus is a religious obsession.
Unconsciously, he finds himself involved in the larger Arab-Israeli conflict. The hummus war, he concludes, is a historical battle over national honour, myth and religion. But if these people all adore the same food, aren’t they destined also to share the same faith? Could a religious love of hummus be the recipe for peace in the Middle East?
| zaterdag 23 maart 12:30 | Studio/K 1 | zondag 24 maart 17:00 | Studio/K 1 |
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