We are very pleased to welcome back the Bristol Palestine Film Festival to Arnolfini this year as we host four events as part of the city-wide festival. The Bristol Palestine Film Festival showcases a varied mix of Palestinian films, including documentaries, features and shorts, as well as music and arts events across a range of venues.
About Palestine Film Festival
Bristol Palestine Film Festival provides an opportunity for moviegoers in the Southwest to experience the lives of Palestinian people through film. By bringing to Bristol Palestinian film, art and culture, they invite viewers to explore the multiple realities and identities of the Palestinian people. It is this focus on their humanity and the expression of the everyday lives of Palestinians that is at the core of the mission of the festival.
Taking place at venues across the city, at Arnolfini the programme will feature:
Saturday 30 November: From Ground Zero (Untold Stories from Gaza) Q&A with the film’s producer Laura Nikolov and media/distribution lead Anaïs Pitkevitch
2pm to 4.45pm: New documentary From Ground Zero, a diverse tapestry of short films by Gazan filmmakers, brought together by director Rashid Masharawi, that illustrate the resilience of creative life of Gaza in a time of war (plus Q&A).
Reem Kelani
7.30pm to 9.30pm: For Bristol Palestine Film Festival’s opening night, the brilliant and multi-talented singer and songwriter Reem Kelani performs, with her long-term collaborator the exceptionally gifted Bruno Heinen on piano.
Thursday 5 December: As if no Misfortune had occured in the night and Familiar Phantoms followed by Q & A
7.30pm to 9.35pm: A double bill of film from Palestinian director Larissa Sansour, with Søren Lind, featuring As if no Misfortune had occurred in the night (2022) an Arabic-language opera on loss, mourning and inherited trauma; followed by Familiar Phantoms (2023), a personal and experimental documentary shot in a derelict mansion and inspired by Sansour’s own family past (plus Q&A).
Sunday 8 December: Where Olive Trees Weep followed by Q&A with Ashira Darwish
1.30pm to 3.50pm: Where Olive Trees Weep (2024), a heartbreakingly beautiful documentary exploring the possibilities of facing and healing trauma for Palestinians living under Israeli occupation.
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