No Pride in Genocide

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.

>>> Submit your film. Deadline: 28 February 2026.

QCP 2026: 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 Month (June 2026). Each filmmaker will be paid a flat fee.

BACKGROUND: Last year during Pride month (June 2025), Queer Cinema for Palestine’s curated program was screened by more than 250 groups/partners at over 110 screenings in 34 countries globally.

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. 

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 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 Dozens of filmmakers have withdrawn their films from TLVFest and hundreds more have pledged not to submit to the Israeli government-sponsored festival.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.

QCP 2026 will be a global collective action during the month of June 2026, 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: 28 February 2026. Submit your film by completing the form below. For any questions, please contact: info@queercinemaforpalestine.org