Belfast Palestine Film Festival: GAZA.

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Come join us for the Palestine Film Festival screening at venues throughout Belfast.

Bear witness to the crimes Israel has inflicted on the people of Palestine and the unique determination of the Palestinian people to live in the face of apartheid, occupation, ethnic cleansing and now Genocide.

Each screening will open from 6.30pm and feature a Q&A.

• 10th of June, 6.30pm – The Duncairn – Premier of ‘Where Olive Trees Weep’ which offers a searing window into the struggles and resilience of the Palestinian people under Israeli occupation. It explores themes of loss, trauma, and the quest for justice.

• 12th of June, 6.30pm – The Black Box – Screening the film ‘GAZA’ offering an insight into the life of Palestinians in Gaza prior to this Genocide, ‘GAZA’ is a portrait of a people attempting to lead meaningful lives against the rubble of perennial conflict and going beyond the reach of television news reports to reveal a world rich with eloquent and resilient characters.

• 13th of June, 6.30pm – Vault Studios Marlborough House Belfast City Centre – screening the film ‘A World Not Ours’.

A World Not Ours hits notes on a wide emotional scale, from tears to laughter, as filmmaker Mahdi Fleifel makes us feel for his family, friends, and home as strongly as if they were our own. His themes are universal, yet they are also rooted in a specific place: the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el-Helweh in Lebanon. The camp’s name translates as “Sweet Spring”—a place hastily built in 1948 that now houses 120,000 refugees in one square kilometre.

The proceeds from this festival will be used for food baskets in Gaza, distributed by the Palestinian Crescent Authority for Relief and Development.