Falastin Film Festival
Falastin Film Festival (FFF) is a volunteer-run, not-for-profit collective of Palestinians and allies dedicated to bringing Palestinian art to the Edinburgh and Highland audiences.
About Falastin Film Festival
| Scottish Storytelling Centre 43-45 High Street, Edinburgh Old Town EH1 1SR | |
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Palestinians are often summed up as an ‘occupied people,’ and are spoken for, despite having countless stories to tell. Using cinema as a tool of resistance, we strive to decolonize the narrative and equip audiences with historical context. We want to build community while celebrating Palestinian art and culture through cinema, music, cuisine, and other storytelling mediums.
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Upcoming Events at Falastin Film Festival
Falastin Film Festival: Exhibition: Nakba 77 - Palestine’s Depopulated Villages
A photographic documentation of the 500+ Palestinian villages across Mandatory Palestine that were depopulated during the Nakba in 1948 and subsequently destroyed by the Zionist settler state.
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Falastin Film Festival: Jenin, Jenin
Jenin Jenin shows the extent to which the prolonged oppression and terror has affected the state of mind of the Palestinian inhabitants of Jenin.
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Falastin Film Festival: Ghost Hunting
Former inmates of the Moskobiya interrogation centre in Jerusalem, a group of Palestinian men address trauma by re-enacting their stories of capture and torture.
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Falastin Film Festival: Bye Bye Tiberias
Hiam Abbass returns home with her filmmaker daughter, in this intimate documentary about four generations of women and their shared legacy of separation.
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Falastin Film Festival: Inside the TV Box, I Found the True Story of the People of Palestine
Born in exile, Ahmed Saleh knew Palestine only through a TV screen, then he crossed the threshold; moving to Palestine for university, he arrived just as the second intifada erupted.
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Falastin Film Festival: On Sound
An aesthetic and provocative screening of four experimental shorts uncovering the occupation’s haunting manipulation of sound as a form of torture, the politics of sound and sonic self-determination
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Falastin Film Festival: In Conversation with Dr Ghassan Abu Sitta & Yara Eid
This conversation at the Scottish Storytelling Centre will bring together distinguished voices to share testimonies from Gaza on the ongoing genocide.
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Falastin Film Festival: Performing Archaeology
Performing Archaeology is a screening of four short films that delve into the manipulation of archaeological heritage and erasure of folkloric traditions by the occupying zionist entity.
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Falastin Film Festival: Workshop: Tatreez (Palestinian Embroidery)
Join us at the Scottish Storytelling Centre on 17th May for a hands-on workshop with Rowa and learn the basics of Palestinian embroidery, tatreez!
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Falastin Film Festival: Three Promises
Three Promises is a heart-breaking film that conveys the anguish of children and their parents who are forced to choose between safety and emotional upheaval.
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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.
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Falastin Film Festival: Reclaiming Rhythms
Two beautiful and powerful medium-length films on the coloniality of archives, reclamation of Palestinian music and dance, and the ethnographic underpinnings of colonization.
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Falastin Film Festival: From Yemen to Palestine
Join Falastin Film Festival on 18th May for a musical concert by renowned composer and Oud virtuoso Saied Silbak and singer Intibint!
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Falastin Film Festival: Workshop: Art for Gaza
Join Diline Abushaban at Scottish Storytelling Centre on Sunday 18th May for a session full of creativity, healing and solidarity with Gaza!
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Falastin Film Festival: From Ground Zero
From Ground Zero is a collection of 22 short films made in Gaza during the ongoing genocide and showing as part of the Falastin Film Festival at the Scottish Storytelling Centre.
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Falastin Film Festival: Talaeen a Junuub / Up to the South
An oblique, albeit powerful experimental documentary which examines the politics and economics of South Lebanon against the backdrop of the Israeli occupation.
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