Tag: London Palestine Film Festival
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Returning for this year’s London Palestine Film Festival, Yasmin Fedda’s 2020 documentary about two men forcibly ‘disappeared’ by the Syrian Government, led by the now-ousted Bashar al-Assad. Five years after its release, the hope and perseverance of their loved ones to find answers burns as bright as ever. The film jumps between the lives of…
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Roland Nurier’s minor-release documentary The Tank and the Olive Tree about the history of Palestine passed cinemagoers in 2019. Revived for a screening in Sands Films Studios for the London Palestine Film Festival 2025 last month, the film acts as a catalyst for conversation, with the bittersweetness of renewing its appeal, yet through the vein…
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In the concluding scene of Palestine 36, Afra (Wardi Eilabouni), a young Palestinian girl and a carrier of the knowledge of her culture, ancestors and the atrocities committed against them, walks barefoot through the stone streets of Jerusalem. This image, following the razing of Afra’s village, the torturing of her community, the destruction of her…
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Reading like an Ibsen play, but with the severity of occupation as a backdrop, Laila Abbas’ sophomore feature Thank You For Banking With Us!, nominated for Best Film at last year’s BFI London Film Festival, brings comedy and drama to an unenviable situation, but with morale and vitality for family life rather than nihilism. Thank…
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London Palestine Film Festival, which will return to the capital later next month, has released its programme. While geographically centred on the land of Palestine, the programme takes us through melancholic, didactic, comedic, and, most of all, thought-provoking films that bridge the over 2000-mile gap to London. Through these many methods, the films tackle the…
