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.
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