London Palestine Film Festival
November 19 - december 3, 2021
barbican cinemas | ica | curzon soho | soas
Presenting a selection of popular new releases and uncovered old gems along with exclusive presentations and urgent discussions.
We were relieved to be back hosting events and debates best experienced in person, together. In 2021 we showcased an eclectic, international selection of films focusing on issues related to Palestine. Our events took place at Barbican Cinemas, Curzon Soho, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) and SOAS University.
Friday, 19 November | 20:30 | BARBICAN CINEMAS
UK PREMIERE
In a small village in the occupied Golan Heights an unlicensed doctor is going through an existential crisis.
Saturday, 20 November | 18:30 | ICA
"Living under occupation forces us to think differently. You have to learn to live with it." this double bill present the powerful role of imagination and belief in resistance.
Sunday, 21 November | 18:20 | ICA
LPFF EXCLUSIVE EVENT
Bashar Shammout is joined by Hazem Jamjoum, to discuss the roles of folk music, sound design and innovation, and the manufacturing of LP’s in the PLO's cinema output.
Sunday, 21 November | 20:30 | ICA
Experimenting with different forms of language - cinema, text, performance - this double bill interrogates the intricacies of narrative.
Tuesday, 23 November | 18:30 | ICA
A double-bill focusing on two political movements lead by women in different eras of Palestinian history, featuring films by Mahasen Nasser-Eldin and Julia Bacha.
TALE OF THE THREE JEWELS (+ SCREEN TALK)
Wednesday, 24 November | 20:30 | BARBICAN CINEMAS
OLD GEM
A tale of innocence, love and imagination set against a backdrop of conflict and occupation; a young boy in love sets off on a magical quest in this child-lead drama set on the war-ravaged Gaza Strip.
DOUBLE BILL: RENEWED NARRATIVES (+ SCREEN TALK)
Thursday, 25 November | 20:30 | BARBICAN CINEMAS
This double bill brings together two films that use found footage to explore collective, political pasts. Featuring Essa Grayeb’s The Return of Osiris and Philip Rizk’s Mapping Lessons.
Friday, 26 November | 19:30 | SOAS
LPFF EXCLUSIVE EVENT
Exclusively for LPFF, Larissa Sansour will discuss the ideas behind framing political discourse in speculative fiction and the inadvertent retro temporality this proximity generates.
Fadia’s Tree (+ SCREEN TALK)
Saturday, 27 November | 18:00 | CURZON SOHO
GLOBAL PREMIERE
Director Sarah Beddington embarks on a quest to find an ancient mulberry tree in Sa'sa, northern Palestine.
Sunday, 28 November | 15:00 | CURZON SOHO
All by Palestinian directors, this selection of short films give us glimpses of memories, thoughts and fears. Both surreal and based on actuality, the selection takes us in and out of the psyche of a society under occupation.
Monday, 29 November | 18:20 | CURZON SOHO
OLD GEM
A journey from the harbour town of Jaffa to the Jaffa Orange, a fruit through which acclaimed filmmaker, Eyal Sivan, examines the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Tuesday, 30 November | 18:20 | CURZON SOHO
Little Palestine: Diary of a Siege follows the destiny of people living under the brutal sieges imposed by the Syrian regime in the wake of battle.
Wednesday, 01 December | 20:30 | BARBICAN CINEMAS
UK PREMIERE
Through words left unsaid to her late mother, Samaher Alqadi explores the chains of her childhood as she shows women's power in a revolutionary struggle.
Thursday, 02 December | 19:30 | SOAS
Imagine your father, a Palestinian Arab, fought against Franco in the Spanish Civil War and that you cannot communicate with your siblings because you each speak a different language. Say hello to my family.
FRIENDSHIP’S DEATH (+ SCREEN TALK)
Friday, 03 December | 20:30 | BARBICAN CINEMAS
OLD GEM - NEWLY RESTORED
An alien on a peace mission inadvertently lands in Amman during Black September (1970) where she is rescued by a journalist.
PRE-FESTIVAL PROGRAMME
September 21-23
INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTs
Tuesday, 21 September | 18:30
Gary Keane & Andrew McConnell’s work looks at life in Gaza, on the banality of the everyday, the intimacy of family and the landscapes beyond the headlines.
Wednesday, 22 September | 20:45
This suspenseful non-fiction work by Palestinian filmmaker Khaled Jarrar follows attempts by everyday Palestinians finding ways to get past the Israeli-built separation wall.
Thursday, 23 September | 18:30
Artists, filmmakers and narrators interrogate viewers’ relationship to Palestine, its image and their own place within it, through the spectrum of experimentation.
