For its 10th edition, the Ciné-Palestine Festival offers a traveling program between Paris, Île-de-France, and Marseille.

The festival kicks off in Marseille from May 30 to June 2 with a series of screenings and events. The Parisian opening will take place on June 7 at the Luminor Hôtel de Ville Cinema, followed by screenings from June 7 to 9 at this iconic venue.

The Paris Region program will continue with screenings at several partner cinemas. From June 10 to 15, the festival will be hosted at Le Kosmos Cinema in Fontenay-sous-Bois, Jean Vigo Cinema in Gennevilliers, l’Écran Cinema in Saint-Denis, and Le Méliès Cinema in Montreuil. An outdoor screening will be held in Villetaneuse on June 14 in collaboration with the sociocultural association L’Autre Champ. The festival will conclude on June 16 at Le Luxy Cinema in Ivry-sur-Seine with a full day of screenings.

Since its creation, the Festival Ciné-Palestine (FCP) has supported the return to circulation of archive films from Palestinian cinema, long considered destroyed or stolen and marginalised, notably by organising meetings and subtitling films. This year, the FCP is focusing on film restoration and the importance of family archives in artistic creation. The title of the focus, "Palestine in the Eye", pays tribute to Hani Jawharieh and expresses the desire to highlight the FCP's archives during its 10th edition.

Always on the lookout for unreleased films to premiere to the public, several films that have been noted at international festivals are on the program: The Roller, the Life, the Fight by Elettra Bisogno and Hazem Alqaddi, The Teacher by Farah Nabulsi, Aida Returns by Carol Mansour, To A Land Unknown by Mahdi Fleifel, Journey into Gaza by Pietro Usberti, as well as a selection of unreleased short films and many others.

For the eighth consecutive year, the FCP's must-attend short film competition will feature a variety of fiction, documentary and animation works. In order to promote Palestinian cinematographic creations and support the work of students, this year's competition will be held in partnership with Nazra festival and Aflamuna platform, and will feature 5 short films by the new generation of Palestinian filmmakers. The jury is made up of : Lisa Adams-Aumérégie, Bissane Al Charif, Manon Azem, Carol Mansour and Patrizia Roletti. The Jury and Audience Awards ceremony will take place on Saturday 15 June.

The FCP is also the presence of Palestinian cinema on movie screens throughout the year, through monthly meetings of the Ciné-Club FCP, which give audiences the opportunity to discover or see again the films of preceding festival editions. The Ciné-Club FCP takes place in our partner cinemas as well as other locations (bars, cultural centers, associative centers, community gardens ...) offering a more informal framework for sharing and meeting.

This year, the programming of the Ciné-Club sessions is planned in advance and promoted through several media, which will allow us to inform our community and attract a new audience that will follow our events from September 2022 until the beginning of the festival in June 2023.

In its effort to create a space for professionals and to encourage creativity, the FCP has established a mentorship program involving, on one hand, three young filmmakers from Palestine and the diaspora – Thekra Makalde, Khaled Jarada, and Marah Zoabi – and on the other hand, three experienced mentors: Nadine Naous, Raed Andoni, and Katia Saleh.

The program, designed in collaboration with film and art professionals – the Palestine Film Institute (PFI) and Artagon – was carried out with the support of the French Consulate in Jerusalem.

The three emerging filmmakers were guided throughout a month-long residency at Artagon (Pantin) in developing their screenplay projects through an educational program.

In addition to individual and group work sessions with the three mentors, the mentees had the opportunity to participate in the opening night, during which we screened three Palestinian short films – including a short film directed by Dima Hamdan, a mentee from the 2022 FCP program. They also attended two masterclasses, the first led by Palestinian director Abdallah el Khatib and the second by script doctor Anna Cienik. Rasha Salti, curator of La Lucarne (Arte) and curator, also took the mentees and the FCP team to the Palais de Tokyo for a tour of her exhibition "Passé Inquiet: Museums, Exile, and Solidarity" before moving on to individual exchange sessions. To conclude this mentorship program, the participants took part in one-on-one sessions with producers, during which they had the opportunity to present their projects and expand their cinematic network.

Always true to its goal of helping Palestinian film to be discoveder by as wide an audience as possible, the FCP will once again organize a free open-air screening in the shared garden of Villetaneuse held by the association Autre Champ, a long-time partner of the Festival.