OPEN CALL: Queer Cinema for Palestine is looking for new short films about Palestinians, with curatorial priority given to (especially queer-ish) Palestinian and other Indigenous, including Black Indigenous, artists/voices/stories, works by SWANA (Southwest Asia North Africa) filmmakers and queer Palestine solidarity voices/stories.
QCP 2025: Queer Cinema for Palestine, under the slogan “No Pride in Genocide,” will curate a single program of 5-7 stellar new short films, to be presented by groups/partners in cities globally during Pride (June 2025). Each filmmaker will be paid a flat fee.
BACKGROUND: Queer Cinema for Palestine started as a film festival in 2021, offering a hybrid ten-day program in thirteen cities around the world, celebrating Palestinian voices and queer solidarity with Palestinians and their liberation struggle.
QCP supports the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, in particular the call by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) to boycott the Israeli government-sponsored LGBTQ film festival, TLVFest. Dozens of filmmakers have withdrawn their films from TLVFest and hundreds more have pledged not to submit to the Israeli government-sponsored festival. Filmmakers: join the boycott and sign the QCP pledge.
In November 2023, Queer Cinema for Palestine presented our second event “No Pride in Genocide,” with screenings in ten cities expressing solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza and across all of historic Palestine facing Israel’s genocide and underlying decades-long regime of military occupation and apartheid.
QCP 2025 will be a global collective action during the month of June 2025, calling on queer audiences and filmworkers to take action in solidarity with Palestinians by supporting BDS and PACBI’s boycott of TLVFest.
See the QCP Mission Statement.
Deadline: March 9, 2025. Submit your film by completing the form below. For any questions, please contact: info@queercinemaforpalestine.org
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