Falastin Frames
FFF presents Falastin Frames, a curated selection of monthly screenings running from October to March. These screenings will feature some of the most popular titles from our 2025 programme, helping us fundraise for next year’s edition of the festival.
Metal Memories: Sounds of the Palestinian Streets
14-30 August, 11:00-18:00
This new exhibition is presented by Mo’min Swaitat of Majazz Project and Palestinian Sound Archive. The exhibition features the installation of a mobile loudspeaker system often used at Bedouin weddings, looping a sonic mix of rare recordings. The field-recorded tapes share artists’ contributions to Palestinian history and cultural heritage, with a focus on wedding music and dance.
Zifzafa
20th Aug-17th Oct
‘Zifzafa’ (2024) is exhibited for the first time in the UK in collaboration with The Common Guild and Edinburgh Art Festival (EAF).
Listening Session: Palestinian Sound Archive
30th August, 16:00
Join Mo’min Swaitat of Majazz Project and Palestinian Sound Archive for a collective listening session, exploring rare and field-recorded audio from across Palestine and the wider region.
Activating Archives: Reclaiming Colonial Images
27th August, 18:00
Followed by a Q&A with the directors, this programme brings together two films that reclaim archival images from the colonial gaze, transforming records of domination into sites of resistance, memory, and political intervention.
All This Victory
28th August, 14:30
During the 2006 Israeli Attacks on Lebanon, Marwan, 30 years old, gets stuck in a house with 4 villagers. Above them, on the first floor, a group of Israeli soldiers.
Parallel Time
28th August, 17:30
Followed by Q&A with Palestinian lawyer and human rights defender Diala Ayesh. How do we tell the stories of our prisoners? Across essay film, fiction, and documentary, this programme explores storytelling as a form of resistance against the silencing and isolation imposed by incarceration.
Falastin Futures
28th August, 20:00
Together, these four films imagine Palestine otherwise—through science fiction, speculative storytelling, and acts of intimate imagination—to ask what becomes possible when liberation is first rehearsed in the mind.
South Lebanon: Homage to the Frontliners
29th August, 12:00
This programme traces the enduring histories of occupation and war in South Lebanon, from 1978 to the present, through films that bear witness to both armed resistance and the quieter, everyday labour of remaining.
Gaza: What Still Grows
29th August, 15:00
Set against the backdrop of Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza, these three films are united by an insistence on creating life under conditions designed to destroy it.
Gaza: Against The Perfect Victim
2930th August, 12:00Inspired by Mohammed El-Kurd's critique of the "perfect victim," this programme brings together two films that refuse the narrow roles so often assigned to Palestinian men.
Cartographies of Memory
30th August, 15:00
When return is interrupted, memory finds other routes. Bringing together three experimental films, this programme traces how voices, maps, and imagined conversations become ways of navigating inaccessible homelands, preserving collective memory, and sustaining relationships to places that can no longer be reached, but are never left behind.