31 August, 19:00

Seasons of Return speaks of repeated journeys back to South Lebanon—journeys since halted by the ongoing Israeli occupation and destruction of over fifty villages.

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.

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.

29th Aug, 19:00

Sound performance Zifzafa, named for an Arabic word describing a wind that shakes everything in its path, centres on the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights, where 30 planned wind turbines will flood the region with a relentless mechanical roar.

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.

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.

28th August, 20:10

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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:

18th May, 13:30

With post-screening conversation with Hazem Jamjoum. Anthology film by 22 Palestinian directors

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

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.

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.

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.