Queer Cinema for Palestine

2025-05-24T18:00:00Z

Cinéma Le Gyptis, 136 Rue Loubon, 13003 Marseille, France

Childcare provided by volunteers during the session! Please let us know you're coming by e-mailing [email protected] the day before at the latest. In partnership with Queer Cinema for Palestine In the presence of Oumaima Dermoumi, queer activist and gender studies researcher, and of members of the association Queers For Palestine Marseille Queer Cinema for Palestine (QCP) is launching No Pride in Genocide, a global film event co-organized by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and over 50 partners in 25 countries, throughout the month of June. We'll be previewing its third edition in Marseille with a program of short films. SOME STRINGS: saint jean-de-la-forêt, 2024 Filmmakers and artists from around the world have formed Some Strings, an ensemble of unreleased filmic gestures that is rooted in Palestine, where poet and teacher Refaat Alareer was targeted by Israeli strikes. In his last poem, "If I Must Die", he calls those who should live to create a kite - a long-standing object of resistance. A selection of shorts from the project will introduce the screenings throughout the festival. Director : Valérie Massadian Production of the project Some Strings: Narimane Mari With Mel Massadian I NEVER PROMISED YOU A JASMINE GARDEN Canada | 2024 | 20 min | Fiction Tara, a queer Palestinian woman in her late 20s, attempts to suppress her internal emotional turbulence during a phone call with her best friend Sarab, with whom she is in love. Director: Teyama Alkamli Production: Limbic Films BLOOD LIKE WATER Palestine | 2023 | 13 min | Fiction Palestinian Shadi embarks on a secret adventure, and accidentally drags his proud family into a trap where they either collaborate with the Israeli occupation or be shamed and humiliated. Director: Dima Hamdan Production: Film Lab Palestine, Fresco Films, Rocliffe Ltd. A LETTER TO MYSELF: SOHA BECHARA Switzerland | 2022 | 10 min | Documentary In a letter to herself, Soha Bechara, a Lebanese figure of Liberation expresses her worries about her son Juan, who recently confessed to her that he was a boy in a girl's body. Soha reflects on the struggle her child faces and what it would mean for her had they not left Lebanon for life in Switzerland. Director: Omar Gabriel Production: Cyril Bassil