Calderdale Palestinian Film Festival October 2017
Halifax Friends of Palestine are putting on a Palestinian Film Festival in venues around Calderdale in West Yorkshire this month (one in November). There will be five screenings in different parts of...
View ArticleLeeds Palestinian Film Festival 2017
The 2017 Festival launches during the Leeds International Film Festival with a new documentary Gaza Surf Club. The film has been directed by two young filmmakers with funding from German Public...
View ArticleWajib (Palestine-France-Columbia-UAE-Qatar-Germany-Norway 2017)
Is there any country in the world with a higher batting average in films produced than Palestine? It’s not even technically a country but an occupied land which, as the funding sources listed above...
View ArticleThe Reports on Sarah and Saleem (Netherlands, Palestine, Germany, Mexico 2018)
This new release was screened in the Leeds International Film Festival and was also the first title in the 2018 Leeds Palestine Film Festival which runs on until December 11th. The film was a fine...
View ArticleGaza (Ireland-Palestine 2019)
This was the second film I watched at the Delius Arts Centre during Bradford’s 2019 Refugee Week. As with Beats of the Antonov, this was a screening with a very engaged and committed audience who, as...
View ArticlePalestinian Cinema in Leeds
This year’s Festival of Palestinian Films launches, as usual, with a screening during the Leeds International Film Festival, It Must Be Heaven (France-Qatar-Germany-Canada-Turkey-Palestine, 2019). The...
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