Bristol Palestine Film Festival 2025
Fri 28 Nov - Sat 6 Dec
The Bristol Palestine Film Festival showcases an exciting mix of Palestinian films, including documentaries, features and shorts, as well as music and arts events across a range of venues, including Watershed.
Highlights at this year's festival include the Venice International Film Festival prize-winning docu-drama The Voice of Hind Rajab, a series of five archival films that make up Art for the Struggle, Struggle for the Art and a fascinating exploration of the Arab-Jewish community in Haifa in Happy Holidays, which features a Q&A.
To see the full programme, head to the BPFF website.
Upcoming screenings in this season
The Voice of Hind Rajab
classified 18 (CTBA)Subtitled screening
The Voice of Hind Rajab uses an innovative hybrid of drama and documentary, to tell the heart-shattering story of Hind Rajab, a six-year-old Palestinian girl who was killed by the Israeli army in Gaza in January 2024.
All That's Left of You
classified 18 (CTBA)Subtitled screening
After Noor, a Palestinian teenager, confronts Israeli soldiers at a West Bank protest, his mother recounts the history that brought Noor - and Palestine - to this moment.
A State of Passion
classified 18 (CTBA)Subtitled screening
A British-Palestinian surgeon’s 43 day journey working day and night under bombardment in Gaza’s Al Shifa and Al Ahli hospitals.
Voices from Gaza
classified 18 (CTBA)Subtitled screening
This collection of short documentary films explores three different perspectives on life in the Gaza Strip before and after October 7th, 2023.
Art for the Struggle, Struggle for the Art
classified 18 (CTBA)Subtitled screening
Art for the Struggle, Struggle for the Art is a collection of five short films from the revolutionary period of Palestinian cinema – from 1968 to 1974 – exploring the importance of archive film in social and cultural documentation.
Happy Holidays
classified 18 (CTBA)Subtitled screening
In this powerful drama, a Palestinian and Israeli fear raising a child in a mixed Arab-Jewish community in Haifa, where they can’t even be seen together in public.