Wild Relatives

About Wild Relatives

Deep in the earth beneath the Norwegian permafrost, seeds from all over the world are stored in the Global Seed Vault to provide a backup should disaster strike. For the first time ever, seeds held there from a major gene bank in Aleppo are now being replicated, after its holdings were left behind when the institution had to move to Lebanon due to the civil war.

Jumana Manna's Wild Relatives is a 2018 documentary film. Released in February 2018, it runs 70 minutes.

Youssef Amer, Leif Magne Helgesen, Kim Holmén, and Walid El-Youssef lead the cast. Written by Jumana Manna.

In the United States it streams on True Story.