Conversation between Shuruq Harb, who will join the discussion digitally, and Mihkkal Hætta.

Part of BEK Symposium The Only Lasting Truth is Change 2025: Voice, Seed, Brutality.

SHURUQ HARB
Shuruq Harb is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, filmmaker, and writer based in Ramallah, Palestine. On the occasion of the Busan Biennale (2024), she presented the first iteration of Off You Shore Paper Trail, a collaborative film project with Federica Bueti which looks at modern maritime histories, piracy, and mobility in the Mediterranean Sea. Harb’s latest essay, “An Hour Ahead and One Day Behind”, was published in kyklàda.press’s latest edition entitled Machine Paralysis, 2025. She is a contributing faculty to PRAXIS: fluent’s Study Programme 2025. Her exhibition “Interrupted Futures (2026)” opens at Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo in 2026.

Mihkkal Hætta
Mihkkal Hætta is a 25-year-old Sámi filmmaker from Guovdageaidnu in Finnmárku county, Northern Norway. Hætta aims to introduce a completely new genre to the ever-growing selection of Sámi films. He has ambitious goals; he wants to bring the Sámi storytelling tradition to the screen and capture audiences’ hearts through Sámi arthouse films.

Photo credit: Mihkkal Hætta