FFF 2026
Our 2026 programme will take place in Edinburgh from 27–30 August, in collaboration with Edinburgh Art Festival, and in Dundee from 25-27 September, in partnership with Art Workers for Palestine, Dundee.
Full programme coming soon!
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.
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.
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.
27th August, 21:00-1:00
FFF26 Opening Party, featuring: Mo’min Swaitat (Palestinian Sound Archive), Hajar Ibrahim (Shahrazadi duo) and Eclair Fifi!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
