london palestine film festival 2025
NOVEMBER 14 - 28
UK PREMIERE: ONCE UPON A TIME IN GAZA
ARAB & TARZAN NASSER, 2025, 90’
thursday 20 NOVEMBER | 20:45
BARBICAN CINEMA 1, SILK STREET, EC2Y 8DS
Gaza, 2007. A young student befriends a charismatic restaurant owner with a big heart. Together, they peddle drugs while delivering falafel sandwiches, but they are soon forced to grapple with a corrupt cop and his oversized ego.
Yahya is a student with a silent dream for a better life. He forges a friendship with Osama, a charming falafel chef running a secret drug operation. They navigate the risks of their double life until the actions of a corrupt cop ignite a crime that shatters their world. Yahya is left to confront violence, and wrestle with his own morality to reclaim his life – in a city caught between hope and joy, and despair and ruin.
This film contains realistic depictions of drug use, violence and bodily harm.