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March 19 – 30, 2025

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Subject: Palestine

Bye Bye Tiberias

Four generations of Palestinian women give vivid and moving accounts of their relationship with their homeland, their hometown of Tiberias, and the resistance that has been passed down from mother to daughter.

Lina Soualem / France, Palestine, Belgium & Qatar / 2023

Familiar Phantoms

Palestinian-Danish artist duo Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind's new film is an elegiac and experimental work about memory, history and trauma.

Søren Lind & Larissa Sansour / United Kingdom & Palestine / 2024 / World Premiere

I Shall Not Hate

A Canadian-Palestinian doctor's mission of tolerance and forgiveness is put to the ultimate test when he loses his three daughters. Meet a Nobel-nominated bestselling author from Gaza whose greatest adversary is hate itself.

Tal Barda / Canada & France / 2024 / World Premiere

Israelism

Two young American Jews are raised to love Israel unconditionally, but their lives take a sharp left turn when they experience the plight of the Palestinians. A film about Jewish identity on both sides of the generation gap.

Erin Axelman & Sam Eilertsen / United States / 2023

No Other Land

The alliance between a young Palestinian activist in the occupied West Bank and an Israeli journalist provides a unique and human insight into a decades-old conflict, as the two fight against the forced expulsion of the Masafer Yatta community. A film created by a Palestinian-Israeli collective.

Rachel Szor, Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra & Hamdan Bilal / Palestine / 2024 / International Premiere

Silent Night

An intelligent and acute reflection on the absurdity of religious tourism during a bus trip to Bethlehem.

Jonathan Schaller & Philipp Schaeffer / Germany / 2024 / World Premiere

There was Nothing Here Before

A Swiss-Palestinian director visits his childhood friend who has moved to an Israeli colony, to make a film about their relationship that transcends borders and political differences.

Yvann Yagchi / Switzerland / 2024