It's a wrap! Queer Cinema for Palestine 2025 was a powerful and uplifting event. Together with 250+ partners in 34 countries organizing 110+ screenings, QCP collectively showcased Palestinian and SWANA region filmmakers and kept the focus on ending Israel’s genocide in Gaza, queer solidarity, and a refusal of Israel’s pinkwashing agenda. Watch the video below:… Continue reading QCP 2025 No Pride in Genocide Surpasses All Expectations
Across the world, Queer Cinema for Palestine: No Pride in Genocide used the arts to make a stand for an end to Israel’s genocidal war on Palestinians in Gaza and for dismantling Israel’s 75-year apartheid regime. In its second edition, more than 40 partner groups came together to host No Pride in Genocide, a collectively-curated… Continue reading “No Pride in Genocide” A Rallying Stand for Queer – Palestinian Solidarity Across the World
As filmmakers, context is a crucial aspect of our work and guides us in the stories we tell. It is something we cannot overlook. The context in which the TLVFest LGBTQ+ film festival takes place has led us to request that our films be withdrawn. The festival has for years been sponsored by the Israeli… Continue reading Statement By Ten Filmmakers Withdrawing From Israeli LGBTQ+ Film Festival
Amsterdam · Beirut · Berlin · London Ontario · London UK · Montreal · Seoul · Toronto · Vancouver November 14, 2023—Queer Cinema for Palestine presents No Pride in Genocide (December 2–10), a global film and panel event across nine cities. No Pride in Genocide stands in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza and across all of historic Palestine… Continue reading Queer Cinema for Palestine: No Pride in Genocide, December 2–10
Queer Cinema for Palestine was born of commitment to center Palestinian voices, to manifest and nourish intersectional solidarity among oppressed communities, and to create a vibrant space for LGBTQIA+ artists and collectives to stand together, using art to oppose the ongoing violence of Israeli apartheid. As we witness Israel’s most far-right, racist, misogynist and homophobic… Continue reading Stop the Genocide. Ceasefire Now.
It’s a wrap! The premier edition of Queer Cinema for Palestine (QCP) lived up to its promise of setting a precedent, and it did so in a big way. QCP made history as a first-ever global queer initiative centering Palestinian artists and standing in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for freedom, justice and equality. QCP… Continue reading Queer Cinema for Palestine 2021 Made History
Poster art by MaryAnn البيان الصحفي بالعربيّة Online and in person events from November 11-20 in 13 cities across the world Queer Cinema for Palestine (QCP) is set to start next week, November 11-20, with a 10-day program across 13 cities around the world under the slogan “Celebrating global queer realities. Standing in solidarity with… Continue reading Queer Cinema for Palestine Announces 10-day Film Festival Program
Filmmakers representing more than half the Brazilian short films have withdrawn their films in response to the call from Palestinian queers to boycott TLVFest over its role in pinkwashing Israel's crimes. A total of 19 filmmakers and producers withdrew from TLVFest this year. Eight Brazilian filmmakers have pulled their films from TLVFest, the Israeli government-partnered… Continue reading Mass Withdrawal of Brazilian Filmmakers From Israeli Government-Sponsored LGBT Film Festival
The pledge signed by over 130 queer filmmakers not to participate in TLVFest, the Israeli government sponsored LGBT film festival, has garnered widespread media coverage. See below a partial list: Film/Arts The Hollywood Reporter Hyperallergic Little White Lies ArtForum Queer outlets Pink News - UK Gay Star News - UK Out Magazine - US Bay… Continue reading Widespread Media Coverage of Queer Filmmaker Pledge Not to Participate in TLVFest
The Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival, or simply TLVFest, has run every year since 2006. Multiple times in recent years, there have been calls from Palestinian rights groups to boycott the festival over its funding from the Israeli Ministry of Culture. This year, that call has been more potent than ever, and more than 130 queer people from… Continue reading 130 Film Professionals Pledge to Boycott the Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival
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