LONDON PALESTINE FILM FESTIVAL 2026, November 13—27
Over 27 screenings, 11 venues, from UK premieres to archival footage, the festival showcases the richness of Palestinian life through lived experiences and everyday realities.
WHO IS STILL ALIVE + Q&A, Friday 13 November | 20:00 | BARBICAN CINEMA 1/ UK PREMIERE + OPENING NIGHT
Nine voices from Gaza. Nine people who tell of their lives before and amid the destruction, in the neighbourhoods whose outlines they draw in chalk on the ground.
+ Saturday 14 November | 15:00 | BARBICAN CINEMA 1
WHO KILLED ALEX ODEH?, Saturday 14 November | 18:00 | ICA/ UK PREMIERE
October 1985, Santa Ana, California: Palestinian American Alex Odeh, a beloved teacher and community leader, was killed by a tripwire bomb planted in his office in a brazen act of political violence.
Edward Said: Between Worlds + Q&A, Sunday 15 November | 14:00 | CINE LUMIERE
Edward Said takes us through a life lived between worlds: Jerusalem and New York, exile and belonging. His voice and rare archives reveal the man behind the public intellectual.
Partition + short film + Q&A, Sunday 15 November | 18:00 | ICA
How are colonial histories recorded, remembered and reclaimed? This double bill challenges inherited ways of observing, tracing connections between image, land, displacement and Palestinian presence.
SHORTS: from ground zero + Monday 16 November | 20:00 | BARBICAN CINEMA 3
Five films from the From Ground Zero+ project, offering intimate portraits of life in Gaza where creativity becomes a way of navigating displacement, loss and an uncertain future.
Gaza shorts + GUIDED DISCUSSION, Tuesday 17 November | 18:20 | CURZON HOXTON
These four films foreground the resilience of those surviving, reflecting on what remains amid destruction and how connections to people and places are preserved.
A Man Fell, Tuesday 17 November | 20:00 | SANDS FILMS STUDIO
A day in the life of a Palestinian refugee community in the abandoned hospital known as the former Gaza Hospital in Sabra (Beirut, Lebanon) through the eyes of 11-year-old Arafat.
Shorts: Between Worlds, Wednesday 18 November | 18:20 | CURZON HOXTON
Five films move between the everyday and the surreal, examining how personal histories, family relationships and unexpected encounters shape lives lived under extraordinary circumstances.
HABIBI HUSSEIN + Q&A, Wednesday 18 November | 20:15 | BARBICAN CINEMA 2
Hussein is the last projectionist of the old cinema in Jenin. When a German NGO renovates the building, he desperately tries to prove his skills, hoping to reclaim his former job.
MOHAMMAD BAKRI Tribute, Thursday 19 November | 18:30 | RIO CINEMA
Honouring Mohammad Bakri (1953–2025), the Palestinian actor and filmmaker who helped shape Palestinian cinema and theatre for over half a century.
Do You Love Me, Thursday 19 November | 20:45 | BARBICAN CINEMA 2
A love letter to Beirut spanning 70 years of film, TV, home videos and photography, exploring the Lebanese collective psyche, marked by joy and intimacy, destruction and loss.
MOHAMMAD BAKRI Tribute, Friday 20 November | 20:00 | RIVERSIDE STUDIOS
LIFE SUPPORT + Q&A, Saturday 21 November | 17:00 | ICA
First-hand accounts from a group of international doctors who breach the longstanding blockade on Gaza. What they find is the calculated dismantling of life itself.
MEDITERRANEAN FEVER + Q&A, Saturday 21 November | 17:40 | CURZON SOHO
Maha Haj’s 2022 dark buddy comedy-drama explores psychological well-being, aspiration and masculinity within an oppressive political framework.
The Clown of Gaza + One More Show, Saturday 21 November | 20:00 | RIVERSIDE STUDIOS
Showcasing the power of performance in the face of displacement and devastation, this double bill follows performers who bring moments of joy to children across Gaza.
Edward Said: Between Worlds, Sunday 22 November | 14:00 | RIO CINEMA
Edward Said takes us through a life lived between worlds: Jerusalem and New York, exile and belonging. His voice and rare archives reveal the man behind the public intellectual.
Gaza's Twins, Come Back to Me, Sunday 22 November | 16:10 | THE GARDEN CINEMA
Gaza, November 2023: Rania gives birth to triplets. One of the babies dies, while the surviving twins are evacuated to the south, separated from their mother, who remains trapped in the north.
Revolutionaries Never Die + Q&A, Sunday 22 November | 18:00 | ICA
In 2018, Jocelyne Saab invited filmmaker and archivist Mohanad Yaqubi to collaborate. She died two months later, having never received an answer, leaving the request as a final, open question.
LOVELY BUTTERFLY + FOR LIFE, Sunday 22 November | 20:00 | RIVERSIDE STUDIOS
How do personal experiences intersect with wider political realities? This double bills explores the lasting effects of imprisonment and separation, from the desire to create new life to the traces left by an absent father.
Chronicles from the Siege, Monday 23 November | 18:20 | CURZON SOHO
A group of friends navigate life under siege, where simple pleasures and desires and hunger and survival become increasingly difficult to separate.
MADLEENS + GUIDED DISCUSSION, Tuesday 24 November | 20:00 | SANDS FILMS STUDIO
Using testimonies and field footage, Madleens documents the first wave of the international movement Thousand Madleens To Gaza, a civilian initiative aiming to challenge the blockade imposed on Gaza.
Palestinian Unwanted + SHORT FILM, Wednesday 25 November | 18:30 | CURZON HOXTON
Exploring Palestinian identity, this double bill examines the emotional toll and pressures of marginalisation while asking what it means to be represented and heard when living between different worlds.
Godard double bill + Q&A, Wednesday 25 November | 20:30 | ICA
Double bill exploring the possibilities and contradictions of revolutionary filmmaking, while reflecting on how images of political struggle are made, circulated and re-examined across time and place.
LAND OF CANAAN, Thursday 26 November | 18:00 | RIO CINEMA
Returning from the US in 2003 to his West Bank village, Nasser Abufarha, son of a watermelon farmer, finds farmers abandoning ancient olive groves.
Concrete Land, Thursday 26 November | 18:20 | BERTHA DOCHOUSE
An intimate story of three generations of a Palestinian Bedouin family in Jordan. Facing displacement and racism, their love and resilience are tested to the limit.