Queer Cinema for Palestine 2025: No Pride in Genocide
June 19 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Makan’s Outreach & Programmes Manager, Sarona, will participate on a panel for Queer Cinema for Palestine as part of the 2025 global film festival during Pride month curated by PACBI, the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.
While Israel attempts to instrumentalise our identities as queer people to “pinkwash” its image as it commits genocide against Palestinians, we re-affirm that there’s no pride in genocide.
No-one is free until we’re all free!
Programme
* Refreshments from 6.30pm
* Films start 7pm.
* We will show 8 short films in total, using a projector
* There will be a break half way through
* After the break we’ll hear briefly from speakers on the themes of queer solidarity with Palestine and cultural boycott activism
* After the last few films are screened, you’re welcome to stay and hang out
Speakers
– Samir Eskanda, a Palestinian artist, organizer, and human rights activist based in the UK.
– Sarona Bedwan, Outreach & Programmes Manager at Makan, a Palestinian-led organisation that provides transformative education aimed at strengthening the movement for Palestinian liberation.
– Marwan Kaabour, a graphic designer, artist and writer, and the founder of Takweer – an online archive of queer narratives in Arab history and popular culture.
Tickets
* Free (unwaged) – 10 available
* £3 (low income) – 10 available
* £7 (standard) – 50 available
* £12 (solidarity) – 30 available
All money raised after covering costs will be split three ways between LFP, QFP and Al Qaws (a Palestinian grassroots organisation for sexual and gender diversity (alqaws.org)