Queer Cinema for Palestine: No Pride in Genocide
Join us, Queer Cinema for Palestine (QCP), and Queers4Palestine for QCP’s global film event, screening short films and documentaries that continue to assert there is No Pride in Genocide!
All proceeds from tickets will go towards alQaws for Sexual & Gender Diversity in Palestinian Society who were foundational in establishing critiques of pinkwashing.
QCP is a collaborative Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) project that emerged as an alternative to, and to facilitate the boycott of, TLV Fest. Although their pinkwashing has failed, Israel continues to attempt to instrumentalize queer and trans identities to justify their ongoing genocide, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing in Palestine and across the region. As queer and trans people, we believe in liberation and stand in solidarity with Palestinians.
We are grateful for the support of our co-presenters and our community partners. Before and after the screening, we will have a community table for you to have a chance to learn about the work of our co-presenters.
We are asking that participants mask in the theatre and when not eating or drinking. The space is wheelchair accessible with a bathroom on ground level. All films will have English subtitles.
Short Film Program
A short documentary film capturing the queer Palestinian voices in exile.
Nawras, a Jordanian-Palestinian queer artist, has been living in Slovakia, Bratislava for the past four years. Living within two communities and clashing cultures, she is pushed towards a third goal; to find peace and a place she can call home. Now, she is reclaiming the culture she was born into, this time, as she chooses to define it, and in doing so, creating a community which becomes her family.
This video reflects on Palestine’s history as a repeating cycle of injustice, imagining a future where the system remains unchanged and violence continues. It exposes the failure of the global system to deliver real justice, offering only symbolic solutions that do not improve daily life. Palestinians are forced to adapt to conditions below basic human dignity, kept in a state of false hope with no clear path to freedom or dignity.
Until We Return drifts between memory and dream, moving from the flicker of a sixth birthday on VHS to the final unknowing farewell of a vanished home. Unfolding like a passage along the Nile, through dreamlike currents of Cairo where memory and presence blur, part vision, part yearning, part possibility. Upon its waters, a fragile utopia awakens, a world where separation never came to be, where return is still within reach, and the home once lost flows back into being.
December 2, 2023. A queer protest erupts in San Francisco in solidarity with Palestine.The film situates this action within the longer history of ACT UP’s activism during the AIDS crisis. It explores glitch as a radical feminist tactic for resisting contemporary regimes of surveillance and silencing.
A portrait of three young women: Luna Alyaan, a young Gaza violinist, killed by an Elbit drone; Eden Golan, a Zionist singer who represented Israel at 2024’s Eurovision in Malmo; and Greta Thunberg, who lead protests at Eurovision that year. A dark satire of Israel’s weaponization of song for hasbara (propaganda) purposes, Sorry uses humour and pop culture to create a mash-up agit-prop in support of the ongoing Eurovision boycott and the Dump Elbit campaign. (Inspired by Toronto Palestine Film Festival’s Gaza Lives tribute to artists lost in the genocide).
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