2025 Events
Our Festival returns this Autumn!
Running from 21st November to 6th December, we will be bringing you another varied programme of films, speakers and cultural events. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram, or subscribe to our email newsletter to be kept up to date.
Our highlight this year will be new films made by Gazan women, part of an inspiring project needing your support – read more about it below.
STATE OF PASSION
Friday September 26, 2025 6:45 pm
A feature-length documentary film by Carol Mansour and Muna Khalidi.
After 43 horrific days working round the clock under constant bombardment in the emergency rooms of Gaza’s Al Shifa and Al Ahli hospitals, British-Palestinian reconstructive surgeon, Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah, emerged to find himself as a face of Palestinian resistance.
With news footage of him pale and shell-shocked reverberating around the world, he spoke of a catalogue of horrors from lacerated bodies, to amputations without anaesthetics, orphaned children with no surviving family, and the deliberate targeting of medics and hospital facilities.
KEEP GAZAN VOICES ALIVE – CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN
We were astounded and inspired to learn of the ambitious plans for an International Festival for Women’s Cinema to take place in Gaza in October this year.
The festival organisers are defying the ongoing genocide with the strongest weapon they have – keeping Palestinian cultural expression alive, and especially the voices of women.
They have already begun recruiting women to be trained to make films that will be showcased at their Festival this October.
We have formed a partnership with them, and are committed to help realise this project. We urgently need your support to raise £10,000 for essential training and equipment.
Donate whatever you can to our crowdfunding campaign.
This is a unique opportunity to play an active part in making an amazing project and audacious act of resistance happen!
