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

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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

Exhibitions

Falastin Film Festival: Exhibition: Nakba 77 - Palestine’s Depopulated Villages

15th May 2025 - 1st June 2025

Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh Old Town

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: Bye Bye Tiberias

16th May 2025

Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh Old Town

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

16th May 2025

Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh Old Town

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: Jenin, Jenin

16th May 2025

Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh Old Town

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

16th May 2025

Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh Old Town

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: Three Promises

17th May 2025

Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh Old Town

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

17th May 2025

Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh Old Town

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: On Sound

17th May 2025

Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh Old Town

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

Talks and Lectures

Falastin Film Festival: In Conversation with Dr Ghassan Abu Sitta & Yara Eid

17th May 2025

Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh Old Town

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

17th May 2025

Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh Old Town

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.

Arts and Crafts

Falastin Film Festival: Workshop: Tatreez (Palestinian Embroidery)

17th May 2025

Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh Old Town

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: From Ground Zero

18th May 2025

Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh Old Town

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

18th May 2025

Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh Old Town

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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Falastin Film Festival: Reclaiming Rhythms

18th May 2025

Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh Old Town

Two beautiful and powerful medium-length films on the coloniality of archives, reclamation of Palestinian music and dance, and the ethnographic underpinnings of colonization.

Music

Falastin Film Festival: From Yemen to Palestine

18th May 2025

Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh Old Town

Join Falastin Film Festival on 18th May for a musical concert by renowned composer and Oud virtuoso Saied Silbak and singer Intibint!

Arts and Crafts

Falastin Film Festival: Workshop: Art for Gaza

18th May 2025

Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh Old Town

Join Diline Abushaban at Scottish Storytelling Centre on Sunday 18th May for a session full of creativity, healing and solidarity with Gaza!

Festivals

Red, Red Rose Street

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Red Red Rose Street returns for 2018 with a festival of Burns’ music and words running from 25th - 27th January.

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Edinburgh Art Festival

Edinburgh Art Festival , Various Locations Edinburgh

Founded in 2004, Edinburgh Art Festival works with local and international partners to present an ambitious and meaningful programme of exhibitions, events and projects across the city.

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Syn Festival Edinburgh

, Various Locations in Edinburgh

Join us for a multi-art festival of visual and performing arts, including photography, art installations, painting, theatre, short films, live music and dance!

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Push the Boat Out

Summerhall 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh South EH9 1PL

Push the Boat Out returns for 2023. Join us for three epic days, 24th – 26th November, throughout Edinburgh’s iconic Summerhall.

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Scottish International Storytelling Festival

, Various Locations Edinburgh

The Scottish International Storytelling Festival returns in October 2024.

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Edinburgh International Book Festival

Edinburgh College of Art 74 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh Old Town EH3 9DF

The Edinburgh International Book Festival began in 1983 and is now a key event in the August Festival season.

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Edinburgh International Improv Festival

Scottish Storytelling Centre 43-45 High Street, Edinburgh Old Town EH1 1SR

Edinburgh International Improv Festival is back in person at Scottish Storytelling Centre from 20th to 23rd March 2025.

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Edinburgh Iranian Festival

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The Edinburgh Iranian Festival is a non-political showcase for world-class Iranian culture.

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Burns&Beyond

Burns&Beyond returns in January 2024, celebrating the life and legacy of Robert Burns through traditional and contemporary art and culture from across Scotland and Beyond!

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