{"id":541443,"date":"2025-11-01T06:07:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T06:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/541443\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T06:07:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T06:07:21","slug":"london-palestine-film-festival-returns-this-november-with-stories-from-gaza-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/541443\/","title":{"rendered":"London Palestine Film Festival returns this November with stories from Gaza and beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.palestinefilm.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The London Palestine Film Festival<\/a> (LPFF), highlighting rich stories of Palestinian life, culture, and resistance, returns to London from 14-28 November.<\/p>\n<p>Opening at the Barbican on 14 November, LPFF aims to create spaces for discussion, spotlighting stories of political realities as experienced by Palestinians both at home and in the diaspora.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For the first time since its opening in the late 90s, the festival will expand beyond the capital, with screenings in Liverpool alongside its London programme.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Khaled Ziada, Founder and Director of LPFF, and Executive Producer of Together for Palestine said: \u201cThis year\u2019s programme feels more urgent than ever, opening with the internationally acclaimed The Voice of Hind Rajab, a film that speaks to both the fragility and the resilience of Palestinian life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The highlights of the festival include the UK premiere of The Mission, a documentary directed by The Gaza Collective and Mike Lerner, which follows acclaimed British-Iraqi surgeon Dr. Mohammed Tahir on his third humanitarian mission to Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>The line up will also include Palestine 36, Once Upon a Time in Gaza, and new films from celebrated filmmakers Yasmin Fedda, Sepideh Farsi and Kamal Aljafari.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Palestine-36-1024x684.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-160246\"  \/>Palestine 36 directed by Annemarie Jacir \u2013 Credit: London Palestine Film Festival <\/p>\n<p>LPFF will close on 28 November with a sonic and visual meditation on life in and beyond Gaza, exploring how war, memory and survival are etched into sound and silence.<\/p>\n<p>This will be followed by a screening of All That\u2019s Left of You, an Academy Awards\u00ae submission directed by Cherien Dabis, exploring three generations of a Palestinian family shaped by exile, resistance and inherited memory.<\/p>\n<p>For the full 2025 programme and more details visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palestinefilm.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.palestinefilm.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Featured image: The Voice of Hind Rajab directed by Kaouther Ben Hania \u2013 Credit: London Palestine Film Festival <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The London Palestine Film Festival (LPFF), highlighting rich stories of Palestinian life, culture, and resistance, returns to London&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[174347,748,393,47345,2194,4884,257,1814,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-541443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-barbican","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-film-festival","12":"tag-gaza","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-london","15":"tag-palestine","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115472947625637870","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}