Queer Cinema For Palestine

ABOUT

We are a collective of queers, based in South Africa, who call on queer and feminist activists and groups around the world to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people. We support the total liberation of Palestine as well as global queer liberation.

Queer Palestinians continue to be oppressed by the same structures of occupation, racism, and physical and economic violence that shaped apartheid in our own context. Queerness is being weaponised against Palestinians to reinforce colonial structures and to justify the genocide and ethnic cleansing taking place. Even beyond this context, all our oppressions are connected. Our resistance needs to be too.

Our intention is to build community and to contribute to global queer resistance. We do this primarily because we hope to contribute to the liberation of all Palestinians but also as a step towards our own liberation.

It is more important than ever that we refuse pinkwashing and say NO PRIDE IN GENOCIDE!

Queers for Palestine is hosting a film screening on December 15th. This will be the first event from Queers for Palestine SA and is in partnership with the 'No Pride In Genocide' international film festival. Along with speakers, this means we will be showing a curated collection of 5 Queer Palestinian short films dubbed The Fashion Programme, with (hyper) visibility as a means of self-fashioning and collective expression. The event begins at 6 p.m., with the films starting at 6:30. The films we are watching are:

1) Sharif Waked, CHIC POINT (5 mins)

2) Elias Wakeem, HOMECOMING QUEENZ (11 mins)

3) Trashy, ERRORVISION (7 mins)

4) Bashar Murad, ANTENNE and MASKHARA (4 mins each)

5) Hazar Jawabra, BODY TONES (2 mins)

Queer Cinema for Palestine started as a film festival in 2021 as a solidarity initiative offering artists and arts groups around the world a vibrant space to stand together, using our art to oppose the ongoing violence of Israeli occupation and apartheid against Indigenous Palestinians.

It is also a protest against Pink Washing - particularly the Tel Aviv gay film festival which is uncritical of the occupation and is held in partnership with the Israeli government. By covering up Israel’s system of oppression against Palestinians, TLVFest subscribes to Israel’s pinkwashing propaganda agenda–the cynical use of LGBT rights to hide its apartheid and occupation regimes against Palestinians.

 In 2023, Queer Cinema for Palestine will host “No Pride in Genocide,” in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza and across all of historic Palestine and denouncing Israel’s genocidal attacks and ethnic cleansing against millions of Palestinians.

Find more information here: https://queercinemaforpalestine.org/faqs/

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