Twelve Fig Leaves

Joëlle Abou Chabké  |  Documentary Film  |  2026  |  Lebanon
Producer: Lara Abou Saifan
When filmmaker-turned-farmer Joëlle discovers the Bawāhīr, an ancestral Lebanese method of weather prediction, she embarks on a year-long journey to test its accuracy while building a permaculture project with her husband in his native Bekaa village. As climate uncertainty and political instability mount, their quest becomes a search for resilience, ancestral wisdom, and survival.