Fragments from Heaven: dir Adnane Baraka (2022)

In the bleak emptiness of the Moroccan desert, a nomad shepherd called Mohamed lives in a tent with his family. His way of life is disappearing; the land is so dry (presumably as a result of climate change) that there is not enough grass for sheep to graze. He describes watching a meteor shower – blue fire lighting up the sky followed by a noise so loud people thought it was an earthquake – and he joins men looking for the debris …

Adnane Baraka’s cinematic essay about the origins of human life screens in dialogue with the ongoing Abdullah Al Saadi exhibition Sites of Memory, Sites of Amnesia as part of a film programme curated by researcher and scholar Rasha Salti that invites audiences to reflect on the intricate interplay between remembrance and forgetting, evoking profound connections to collective and personal histories.