London Palestine Film Festival
November 13-26, 2020
13 - 26 November | Barbican Cinema on Demand
Following an act of vandalism, the filmmaker's father installs a camera to record the scenes unfolding in front of the family house.
13 - 26 November | Barbican Cinema on Demand
In today’s Gaza, much like anywhere in the world, finding love is a form of emancipation.
13 - 26 November | Barbican Cinema on Demand
Up-and-coming filmmaker Ameen Nayfeh’s first-feature presents the life-threatening absurdities of life along the infamous wall, with a perfect balance of family warmth and political tension.
13 - 26 November | Barbican Cinema on Demand
Salma and Tamer are trying to get a divorce. But as they are filing for it, missing documents lead to a staggering discovery about Tamer’s father secret love affair with an Iraqi Jewish woman in the 1950’s.
13 - 26 November | Barbican Cinema on Demand
This double bill brings together two investigative videos by artists looking into the sale and effect of tear gas in Palestine and globally.
13 - 26 November l Barbican Cinema on Demand
On the last day of school in June 1982, 11-year-old Wissam wants to tell his crush Joanna that he loves her.
13 - 26 November | Barbican Cinema on Demand
Made over a period of 12 years, Western Arabs is a powerful film that documents Omar Shargawi’s attempt at understanding his family.
13 - 26 November l LPFF Vimeo on Demand
Jehad and Abdallah, founders of the Gaza Parkour Team, brought up together in the Gaza Strip but their choices divided them for years.
13 - 26 November l LPFF Vimeo on Demand
In this provocative and personal documentary, director Lina Al Abed searches for traces of her disappeared father: a seemingly ordinary Palestinian family man who was actually a secret member of a militant splinter faction and vanished when she was just a child.
13 - 26 November l LPFF Vimeo on Demand
Mahdi Fleifel’s latest short is a brilliant sociological meditation on the “exits” offered to young Palestinians in refugee camps, presented alongside his two previous films centred on the same character.
13 - 26 November l LPFF Vimeo on Demand
During the 1990 World Cup, two young Palestinian boys are looking for “Maradona’s legs”; the last missing sticker that they need in order to complete their world cup album and win a free Atari.
13 - 26 November l LPFF Vimeo on Demand
On his wedding anniversary, Yusef and his young daughter set out in the West Bank to buy his wife a gift. Between soldiers, segregated roads and checkpoints, how easy would it be to go shopping?
13 - 26 November l LPFF Vimeo on Demand
Combining our now-normal laptop world to our laptop film viewing, these three short films bring to together day-to-day communications, memories and aspirations of young Palestinians abroad.