Rosa Tharrats, Gabriel Ventura, The Miracles of Master Cabestany, still

What the Olive Branch Has Seen
Originally commissioned by Artviewer for SCREEN 2024
Curated by Àngels Miralda

The exhibition is part of the 2026 programme curated by Daily Lazy in collaboration with opbo studio

Films by: Noor Abed, Andrés García Vidal, Lamia Joreige, Francisca Khamis Giacoman, Regina de Miguel, Basma al Sharif, Huda Takriti, Rosa Tharrats & Gabriel Ventura, Rahme Veziroglu

Opening: Friday, March 27, 2026 7:00 – 11:00pm

Duration: 28 March – 30 April, 2026

Special event: Saturday 28 March at 18.00

A screening of Regina de Miguel’s full film “Nekya” will take place in the outside courtyard, accompanied by an introduction by the curator Àngels Miralda on the Antifascist image of the female fighter in the films of Huda Takriti and Regina de Miguel.

Art space: opbo studio

Green, how I want you green.
Green wind. Green branches.
The ship out on the sea
and the horse on the mountain.

-Federico García Lorca

This film programme connects artists across the Mediterranean region through shared landscapes and history with an emphasis on solidarity with Palestine. All of the films presented speak of landscape and partitions in this region over the course of history that directly tie to the formation of the post-modernist contemporary carved out by conflict, barbed wire, and economic zones of sacrifice.

The selection of films is presented for the first time as a spatial, physical exhibition, playing out across three screens within Opbo’s space. Previously it has been shown as a monthly free-access online programme and as an intensive two-day screening session at Framer Framed in Amsterdam. This third format repositions the narrative created by films and their inherent temporality and repositions the geography of the programme directly in the Mediterranean. 

The original selection was inspired by the direct references to Spanish poet Federico García Lorca in the poetry of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. Fascinated by colour and landscape as a representation of identity, both poets addressed exile, war, and marginality during different epochs on opposite sides of the Mediterranean. 

The olive branch connects the entire region and is also a stark political symbol of Palestinian resistance. The films speak of fractured communities, forced migrations and exiles. They reference the care of many generations of hands that have cared for, picked, and pressed the olive harvests grown from the soil. They position the olive tree as a political key to the literal rootedness of communities, and the age-old imperial repressive measures of destroying them in order to impoverish and destroy established communities. 

If the olive trees knew the hands that planted them
Their oil would become tears.

-Mahmoud Darwish

Àngels Miralda

Huda Takriti, Refusing to Meet Your Eyes, still

Noor Abed, Our Songs Were Ready, still