Free Palestine International Film Festival held in London

The Free Palestine International Film Festival in London highlights the Palestinian narrative, which is often sidelined in mainstream Western cinema, and focuses on Palestinian stories and their resilience against Israeli oppression and occupation from the filmmakers' perspectives. 

A world of motion pictures to dive into with compelling stories often left out in mainstream cinema, against a backdrop of a war of narratives, a venue to tell different stories about Palestinians and their decades of struggle for freedom and justice.

I believe so much in the impact and how firms as a tool, we can invest it and to create a good and powerful impact about Palestinian issue.

Wafa Jamil, Nordic Palestine Film Festival

• London hosts free Palestine film festival
  

  London hosts free Palestine film festival

  The British capital is hosting the Free Palestine International Film Festival, highlighting the sidelined Palestinian narrative in Western media.

The films screened are windows into the lives of Palestinians.

Even something [sic.] the way there's been so much propaganda, for people to understand the Palestinian people are human, like us, and feel, like us, and want to live, like us, have the same genes and aspirations as the rest of us.

Craig Murray, Human Rights Activist

• Thousands rally in London in solidarity with Palestinians
  

  Thousands rally in London in solidarity with Palestinians amid Israeli strikes on Gaza

  Thousands of people pour into the streets of London to show their support for Palestinians amid Israel’s airstrikes on the Gaza Strip.

From documentaries to shorts to animated movies to feature length films, the Free Palestine International Film Festival in London showcases the faith, resilience and lifestyle of Palestinians, and also their ideal for a free Palestine.

The Faces of Solidarity UK protesters for Palestine counters the baseless demonization of the Palestine Solidarity demonstrations in the United Kingdom.

We were receiving so much negative press around the protests, calling them anti-Semitic, calling them violent.

And I guess we wanted to show the truth behind these protests, and the fact that they're not violent, the fact that people are asking for peace and that they're not anti-Semitic.

In fact, a lot of people who were in the film were Jewish themselves.

Taha Seder, The Faces of Solidarity, Director

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'An Orange from Jaffa', chronicles how trouble begins when a young Palestinian desperately looks for a taxi to take him through an Israeli security checkpoint.

'Hostage Economy' delves into the deep rooted barriers entrenched within Palestinian society aimed at disabling meaningful economic growth.

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  Israeli colonization of mainstream Western media

  Western media outlets, having been colonized by Israel, misrepresent the truth about the struggle for the Liberation of Palestine.

As well as drama there is animation.

'Before Heaven' profiles children's paintings on the walls of a house that its new Israeli occupier decides to paint over.

One running theme is the desire to return home.

'Long running' depicts a Palestinian woman who fled to Syria in 1948 for fear of her life as Israel massacred Palestinians.

A three day festival of Palestinian stories that move, resonate and inspire.

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