queer cinema for palestine

A video still from John Greyson's film 'Sorry.' On the left, a woman stands on a stage with clasped arms and closed eyes, surrounded by stage lights. On the right, a young woman practices the violin.

PERSPECTIVES – Experiencing 2026 “Queer Cinema for Palestine: No Pride in Genocide”

On June 27, film festival “Queer Cinema for Palestine: No Pride in Genocide” screened at the London Public Library, hosted by Embassy Cultural House in partnership with People for Peace London, Independent Jewish Voices London, and Antler River Media Co-op, and organized by member of Embassy Cultural House’s advisory circle Ira Kazi. The 2026 program screened across 59 countries in a record-breaking 300 locations. It featured six short films: A Message by Mama Gannush (Palestine, 2026), Ceasefire by Teodor Vladar (Slovakia/ Hungary, 2025), The 5-year Plan for Financial Independence by Dua Omari (Palestine, 2025), Until We Return by Huss AC…

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Image of a poster advertising the Queer Cinema for Palestine: No Pride in Genocide" film series on June 27, 2026 at London Public Library in London, Ontario, sponsored by Embassy Cultural House, Antler River Media Co-Op, People for Peace London, and Independent Jewish Voices. The poster features artwork by Incé Husain in red and green tones, portraying a fish jumping over a wave formed from a keffiyeh.

Remembering 2025 “Queer Cinema for Palestine: No Pride in Genocide”, as 2026 program to screen in London this June 

“Queer Cinema for Palestine is about exposing and fighting Israel’s pinkwashing agenda, which uses all queer and trans identities to create a pink smokescreen attempting to hide Israel’s violent oppression of Palestinians. When an Israeli soldier committing genocide in Gaza poses for a photoshoot among the devastation while holding a pride flag with the words ‘in the name of love’, this is a textbook example of pinkwashing,” says activist Ghadir Shafie in her recorded introduction to Queer Cinema for Palestine’s 2025 program.  “Queer Cinema for Palestine is about creating an ethical space for the hundreds of filmmakers who have withdrawn…

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