Palestinian Film Calendar

Screenings by, about and related to Palestine in the New York City area and limited online engagements.

No Other Land
Jan
31
to Apr 10

No Other Land

A chronicle of the Israeli military’s incremental expulsion of the West Bank community of Masafer Yatta — home to 20 ancient Palestinian villages — in this tightly focused, urgent documentary.

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No Other Land
Feb
21
to Apr 10

No Other Land

A collective of Palestinian and Israeli activist/filmmakers chronicle the Israeli military’s incremental expulsion of the West Bank community of Masafer Yatta — home to 20 ancient Palestinian villages — in this tightly focused, urgent documentary.

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No Other Land
Mar
15
to Apr 18

No Other Land

A collective of Palestinian and Israeli activist/filmmakers chronicle the Israeli military’s incremental expulsion of the West Bank community of Masafer Yatta — home to 20 ancient Palestinian villages — in this tightly focused, urgent documentary.

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The Encampments
Apr
4
to Apr 10

The Encampments

Students flooded Columbia University's lawn to create the Gaza Solidarity Encampment in order to pressure their university to divest from the US and Israeli weapons companies.

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The Teacher (+Q&A)
Apr
11
to Apr 17

The Teacher (+Q&A)

A Palestinian schoolteacher struggles to reconcile his risky commitment to political resistance with the chance of a new relationship with volunteer-worker Lisa and his emotional support for one of his students Adam.

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The Encampments
Apr
11
to Apr 17

The Encampments

Students flooded Columbia University's lawn to create the Gaza Solidarity Encampment in order to pressure their university to divest from the US and Israeli weapons companies.

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No Other Land
Apr
11

No Other Land

A collective of Palestinian and Israeli activist/filmmakers chronicle the Israeli military’s incremental expulsion of the West Bank community of Masafer Yatta — home to 20 ancient Palestinian villages — in this tightly focused, urgent documentary.

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ONLINE: Relentless Refusals
Apr
17
to Apr 27

ONLINE: Relentless Refusals

Recent short animated films by The Hakawi Animation Team, and animators Naaman Azhari, and Arash Akhgari, presenting perspectives from characters that refuse to silently accept the conditions or struggles they face.

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Bye Bye Tiberias
Apr
20

Bye Bye Tiberias

The film traces four generations of Palestinian women through personal and historical archives, weaving an intimate portrait of resilience in the face of exile and dispossession.

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The Encampments
Apr
21

The Encampments

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Students flooded Columbia University's lawn to create the Gaza Solidarity Encampment in order to pressure their university to divest from the US and Israeli weapons companies.

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The Palestine Exception (+Q&A)
Apr
22

The Palestine Exception (+Q&A)

Professors and students join calls for a ceasefire and divestment from companies that do business with Israel and face waves of crackdown from administrators, the media, the police and politicians. Scholars from diverse disciplines explain what is at stake in these protests and why so many young people identify with the Palestinian cause.

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Recollection
Apr
22

Recollection

Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari returns to Jaffa, the city of his birth, to reckon with the imposition of Israeli and American fiction films shot in Palestine going back as far as 1960.

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Relentless Refusals (+Q&A)
Apr
24

Relentless Refusals (+Q&A)

Recent short animated films by The Hakawi Animation Team, and animators Naaman Azhari, and Arash Akhgari, presenting perspectives from characters that refuse to silently accept the conditions or struggles they face.

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UNDR
Apr
24

UNDR

As part of the shorts program called Landscapes of Forgetting, Kamal Aljafari’s short film will screen alongside other films about memory and erasure.

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Three Promises + Where the Wind Blows
Apr
30

Three Promises + Where the Wind Blows

While the Israeli army retaliates against the second intifada in the West Bank in the early 2000s, a mother films her family’s daily life, punctuated by time spent sheltering in the basement. Her son revisits this past, delivering 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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