FFF 2026
Our 2026 festival will take place in Edinburgh from 27–30 August, in collaboration with Edinburgh Art Festival, and in Dundee from25-27 September, in partnership with Art Workers for Palestine, Dundee. Dundee programme coming soon.
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).
Artist Talk: Ellie Armon Azoulay & Mo'min Swaitat
27th August, 15:00
Join cultural historian + curator Ellie Armon Azoulay and Mo’min Swaitat of Majazz Project and Palestinian Sound Archive for a conversation in response to Metal Memories: Sounds of the Palestinian Streets.
Activating Archives: Reclaiming Colonial Images
27th August, 18:00
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.
FFF 2026 Launch Party
27th August, 21:00-1:00
FFF26 Opening Party, featuring: Mo’min Swaitat (Palestinian Sound Archive), Hajar Ibrahim (Shahrazadi duo) and Eclair Fifi!
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
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.
Gaza:What Still Grows
28th August, 20:00
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
29th August, 12:00
Inspired 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.
South Lebanon: Homage to the Frontliners
29th August, 15:10
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.
Cartographies of Memory
30th August, 12:45
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.
Listening Session: Palestinian Sound Archive
30th August, 17:00
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.
Falastin Futures
30th August, 20:15
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.
Up to the South طالعين على الجنوب
6th March, 18:00
Followed by a post-screening Q&A with Batoul Faour and director Jayce Salloum. This documentary is ostensibly (not) a documentary on the south of Lebanon exploring the conditions of the time it was shot.
120Km ١٢٠ كم
5th Feb, 18:00
Followed by post-screening conversation with director. Shedding light on the human cost of borders in the context of an occupation, and the enduring spirit of connection between Palestinians in Lebanon and occupied Palestine.
Jenin, Jenin جنين جنين
8th Jan, 18:00
The documentary will be followed by a conversation with Mariam Barghouti (online). Directed by Mohamed Bakri, Jenin Jenin gives voice to survivors of the 2002 assault on Jenin refugee camp.
On Sound عن الصوت
4th Dec, 18:00
Followed by a post-screening discussion moderated by Toufic Haddad.
An aesthetic and provocative screening of four experimental shorts uncovering the occupation’s haunting manipulation of sound as a form of torture, the politics of sound and sonic self-determination.
A State of Passion حالة عشق
2nd November, 13:30
This screening will be followed by a post-screening Q&A with Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah. Part of the Palestine Cinema Days: All Around the World event.
Fedayin, George Abdallah’s Fight فدائيين
2nd October, 18:00
The documentary will be followed by a conversation with Charles Hoareau.
Fedayin: Georges Abdallah’s Fight retraces the path of this tireless Arab leftist—from the refugee camps that shaped him to the global calls for his release.
Palestinian Supper Club and Live Storytelling with Izzeldin Bukhari لَمّة فلسطينية مع عز الدين بخاري
19th May, 19:00
SacredCuisine founder Izzeldin Bukhari is on a mission to introduce Palestinian cuisine to the world. Through food, he shares the deep connection between Palestinian heritage, the land, and its produce, showing not only how to cook traditional dishes but also the resourcefulness and improvisation that define this rich culinary tradition.
From Yemen to Palestine: A Night of Music with Saied Silbak and Intibint من اليمن إلى فلسطين: ليلة من الموسيقى مع سعيد سيلباك وانتِبِنت
18th May, 8:30pm
Join us for a musical concert by renowned composer and Oud virtuoso Saied Silbak. Saied will perform his own compositions and musical pieces inspired by the past, the current situation and the expectations for something unknown.
Reclaiming Rhythms استعادة الإيقاعات
18th May, 17:30
Followed by Q&A with Director Lamees Almakkawy.
Two beautiful and powerful medium-length films on the coloniality of archives, reclamation of Palestinian music and dance, and the ethnographic underpinnings of colonization:
Art for Gaza فن لغزة
19th May, 14:00
Join us in a session full of creativity, healing and solidarity with Gaza. The session will be hosted by Diline Abushaban.
From Ground Zero من المسافة صفر
18th May, 13:30
With post-screening conversation with Hazem Jamjoum. Anthology film by 22 Palestinian directors
Talaeen a Junuub (Up to the South) طالعين على الجنوب
18th May, 11:00
This documentaryis ostensibly (not) a documentary on the south of Lebanon exploring the conditions of the time it was shot, the issues behind those conditions and their representation both in the West and in Lebanon itself.
Performing Archaeology توظيف علم الآثار
17th May, 20:30
With post-screening conversation with Nadia Dina Yahlom (in-person)
A compelling screening of four short films that delve into the manipulation of archaeological heritage and erasure of folkloric traditions by the occupying zionist entity, revealing the cultural destruction of colonial control.
Longing for Palestine الاشتياق لفلسطين
17th May, 18:30pm
A cinematic exploration on borders, the physical, emotional, material and immaterial; those that dictate movement and return, or lack thereof, for Palestinians universally.
In Conversation with Dr Ghassan Abu Sitta & Yara Eid محادثة مع د. غسان أبو ستة ويارا عيد
17th May, 16:30
Moderated by Hazem Jamjoum the conversation will bring together distinguished voices to share testimonies from Gaza on the ongoing genocide.
Tatreez, Palestinian Embroidery ورشة تطريز
17th May, 14:00
Join us for a hands-on workshop with Rowa and learn the basics of Palestinian embroidery, tatreez.
On Sound عن الصوت
17th May, 13:30
An aesthetic and provocative screening of four experimental shorts uncovering the occupation’s haunting manipulation of sound as a form of torture, the politics of sound and sonic self-determination.
Three Promises الوعود الثلاثة
17th May, 11:00
During the early 2000s, as the Israeli army retaliates against the Second Intifada, a mother films her family’s life, often shielding them in the basement. Years later, her son revisits this painful past, depicting the anguish of parents torn between their children's safety and the emotional cost of leaving home.
Inside the TV Box, I Found the True Story of the People of Palestine داخل صندوق التلفزيون، وجدت القصة الحقيقية لشعب فلسطين
16th May, 20:00
Saleh, born in exile, first experienced Palestine through a screen before moving there for university during the Second Intifada. His performance merges storytelling and film, illustrating his shift from observer to participant and connecting his memories with those he met.
Jenin, Jenin جنين جنين
16th May, 17:30
The documentary will be followed by a conversation with Mariam Barghouti (online).
Directed by Mohamed Bakri, Jenin Jenin gives voice to survivors of the 2002 assault on Jenin refugee camp, revealing the lasting trauma and resistance left in its wake.
Ghost Hunting اصطياد اشباح
16th May, 15:00
Followed by post-screening Q&A with assistant director Wadee Hanani.
Director Raed Andoni gathers former inmates of Jerusalem’s Moskobiya prison to rebuild it from memory and re-enact their experiences. As trauma resurfaces, the film becomes a powerful act of collective healing—for them and for Andoni himself.
Bye Bye Tiberias باي باي طبريا
16th May, 12:30
Leaving her native village to follow her dream of becoming an actress, Hiam Abbass also left behind her mother, grandmother and seven sisters. Thirty years later, her filmmaker daughter Lina returns with her to journey through the vanished places among the scattered memories of four generations of daring Palestinian women.
Nakba 77: Palestine’s Depopulated Villages
15th May - 1st June
Nakba 77, by Palestine-based independent journalist and photographer Ahmad Al-Bazz, is a photographic documentation of the 500+ Palestinian villages across Mandatory Palestine that were depopulated during the Nakba in 1948 and subsequently destroyed by the zionist settler state.
Gaza Biennale: Edinburgh Pavillion بينالي غزة، جناح إدنبرة
15th May [now 14th May] - until July
Edinburgh Pavilion presents exhibitions by three artists working in Gaza today: Mohamed Alhaj, Malaka Abu Owda, Ahmad Adawi.
A Night of Music for Gaza ليلة موسيقية من أجل غزة
10th May, 21:15
We’ll be closing our festival in Glasgow with a night of music to raise funds for the Masharawi Films Fund in Gaza, a fund empowering filmmakers in Gaza to continue telling their stories.
Longing for Palestine الشوق لفلسطين
10th May, 19:00
A collection of four short-films followed by a conversation with director Theo Panagopoulos.
Palestine is always in sight, whether it is through the dead sea or on colonial footage; this programme of short films reflects on how love and longing for Palestine cannot be contained by objects or borders.
Aida’s Return عايدة
10th May, 16:30
Followed by a Q&A with director.
After her mother's passing, director Carol Mansour enlists the help of friends and strangers in Beirut to navigate the complex journey of returning Aida to Palestine.
Olive Harvest in Palestine: A Puppetry & Mask-Making Workshop قطف الزيتون في فلسطين – ورشة دمى للأطفال
10th May, 14:00
An interactive puppetry, mask-making & story-telling event about the olive harvest in Palestine for kids aged 5-12. The workshop will involve puppetry-making and story-telling about land, food, family, community, and perseverance.
Fedayin, George Abdallah’s Fight فدائيين
10th May, 14:00
The documentary will be followed by a conversation with Charles Hoareau.
Fedayin: Georges Abdallah’s Fight retraces the path of this tireless Arab leftist—from the refugee camps that shaped him to the global calls for his release.
Palestinian Resistance Cinema Retrospective سينما المقاومة الفلسطينية
10th May, 11:00
These four resilient short films from The Palestine Film Unit have survived despite zionist effort to destroy them. Join us as we introduce the films with a presentation on Palestine’s militant cinema tradition, followed by an open discussion post-screening.
