Falastin Film Festival: Longing for Palestine
A cinematic exploration on borders, the physical, emotional, material & immaterial; those that dictate movement and return, or lack thereof, for Palestinians universally.
About Falastin Film Festival: Longing for Palestine
Longing for Palestine الشوق لفلسطين
A cinematic exploration on borders, the physical, emotional, material & immaterial; those that dictate movement and return, or lack thereof, for Palestinians universally. This event will feature post-screening conversations with directors.
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I Would Like to Visit أودُّ الزيارة (Muhammad Nour Elkhairy)
An experimental short and installation work that combines text and film to explore the simple desire to travel, through the cultural and political realities of being Palestinian.
Genre: Short, Experimental | Year of Release: 2017 | Original Language: English
Your Father Was Born 100 Years Old, and So Was the Nakba أبوكي خلق عمره ١٠٠ سنة، زي النكبة (Razan AlSalah)
A grandmother returns to her hometown Haifa through Google Streetview, today, the only way Palestinian refugees can see Palestine.
Genre: Short, Experimental| Year of Release: 2018 | Original Languages: Arabic | Subtitles: English
Like An Event In A Dream Dreamt By Another – Rehearsal مثل حدث في حلم رآه آخر - تمرين (Firas Shehadeh)
Through Role-Playing Games, real life can be rehearsed using supernatural beings and worlds. This project explores how Palestinian players, GTA mods and servers are simulating real life under colonial rule.
Genre: Short, Experimental, Animation | Year of Release: 2023 | Original Language: English
When Weather Permits (Hareth Yousef)
A short experimental film that mixes photography, archival images, and audio, this piece explores the profound longing and complex realities of Yousef’s homeland.
Genre: Short | Year of Release: 2024 | Original Language: English
Moonscape وجه القمر (Mona Benyamin)
A short film taking the form of a music video. The song traces the story of the man who claimed ownership of the Moon in 1980 and founded a company selling land on a variety of planets and moons, connecting his story with a young Palestinian woman living under the Israeli occupation.
Genre: Short, Experimental | Year of Release: 2020 | Original Language: Arabic, English | Subtitles: English
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Falastin Film Festival (FFF) is a volunteer-run, not-for-profit collective of Palestinians and allies dedicated to bringing Palestinian art to Edinburgh and Highland audiences. Palestinians are often summed up as an ‘occupied people,’ and spoken for, though they have their own stories to tell. Using cinema as a tool of resistance the festival strives to decolonize the narrative and equip audiences with historical context. There is a desire to build community while celebrating Palestinian art and culture through cinema, music, cuisine, and other storytelling mediums. Scotland’s exposure to Palestinian society, art, culture, and humanity altogether remains rather limited. FFF hopes to fill this gap, using both classical and contemporary cinema primarily but not exclusively. They strive to highlight Palestinian steadfast resistance, cultural preservation, stories of love, and in the words of poet Rafeef Ziadah, teachings of life. In so doing, they offer a refreshing portrayal that encompasses the geographic, linguistic, and experiential diversity of the Palestinian people globally.
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