Phoenix (2024)
14m
Running Time
October 5, 2024Release Date
Plot.
Zheng Bo collaborates with seven Pakistani farmers living and working on a date palm farm outside Dubai to make a dance. The project celebrates the beauty of the date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) and the skill of these stewards, highlighting intimate relations cultivated over millennia, vital to the economy and culture of the region. Phoenix underscores the contribution of diasporic farmers to regional agriculture, while also drawing attention to the growing phenomenon of climate-induced migration, which in the coming decades is estimated to affect over a billion people, many of them in Asia.
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Cast & Crew.

Mubarak Essa Muhammad Essa

Khalid Mohammad Mohammad

Hamid Ali Muhammad Umar

Safi Ullah Muhammad Sharif

Zain Ullabideen Karim Bakhsh

Mehrab Khan Dil Murad

Ehsan Ulhaq Mubarik

Intzar Hussain
Music

Zheng Bo
Director

Mark Hobson
Director of Photography

Hisham Sharafeddine
Sound Recordist

Mark Hobson
Post Producer

Nadine El Khoury
Producer

Sarah Ali
Producer
