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🎬 Bristol Palestine Film Festival + Bristol Apartheid-Free Zone 🎬We’re excited to launch a new community film + discussi...
19/05/2026

🎬 Bristol Palestine Film Festival + Bristol Apartheid-Free Zone 🎬

We’re excited to launch a new community film + discussion series in partnership with — beginning this month with a screening of The Wanted 18 at .

Blending animation, archive footage and real interviews, this powerful documentary tells the story of a Palestinian community in Beit Sahour who started a local dairy farm during the First Intifada — only for their 18 cows to be declared “a threat to Israeli national security.”

A story of resistance, humour and collective organising, The Wanted 18 feels as urgent and inspiring as ever.

Following the screening, we’ll host an open discussion exploring themes of boycott, solidarity and community action.

🍰 Plus a bake sale raising funds for students from Gaza at the University of Bristol, and their families back home.

Bring your friends, family and neighbours — all are welcome.

📅 30 May 2026
📍 St Werburghs Community Centre, Bristol
🎟 Free / community event

05/05/2026

Bristol Palestine Film Festival is partnering with Bristol Apartheid-Free Zone for a new community film + discussion series — starting this month.

Join us on 30th May at for a screening of The Wanted 18 — a powerful, inventive documentary by Amer Shomali and Paul Cowan.

Blending animation, archive footage and real interviews, the film tells the story of a small Palestinian community in Beit Sahour who started a local dairy farm — hiding a herd of 18 cows after the project was deemed a threat to Israeli national security. A story of everyday resistance, humour and collective organising.

Following the screening, we’ll host an open discussion exploring themes of boycott, solidarity and community action.

There’ll also be a bake sale raising funds for students from Gaza at the University of Bristol, and their families back home.

Bring your friends, family and neighbours — all are welcome.

📅 30 May 2026�📍 St Werburghs Community Centre, Bristol�🎟 Free / community event

We’re excited to be partnering with Bristol Apartheid-Free Zone for a new community film and discussion series — startin...
21/04/2026

We’re excited to be partnering with Bristol Apartheid-Free Zone for a new community film and discussion series — starting this May.

Join us on 30th May at St Werburghs Community Centre for a screening of The Wanted 18 — a powerful, inventive documentary by Amer Shomali and Paul Cowan.

Blending animation, archive and real interviews, the film tells the story of a small Palestinian community in Beit Sahour who launched a local dairy initiative during the First Intifada — an act of everyday resistance and collective organising.

Following the screening, we’ll host an open discussion inspired by the film’s themes of boycott, solidarity and community action.

There’ll also be a bake sale raising funds for students from Gaza at the University of Bristol, and their families back home.
Bring your friends, family and neighbours — all are welcome.

📅 30 May 2026
📍 St Werburghs Community Centre, Bristol
🎟 Free / community event

🍉 We’re sharing this powerful event part of Lyra Festival A moving and urgent hour of poetry from young Palestinian voi...
17/04/2026

🍉 We’re sharing this powerful event part of Lyra Festival

A moving and urgent hour of poetry from young Palestinian voices, centring hopes, dreams, and lived realities.

Featuring two remarkable poets from Gaza:

✨ Haia Mohammed — reading from The Age of Olive Trees
✨ Batool Abu Akleen — reading from 48kg / ٤٨ كغم

Plus readings of work by Gazan poets, shared by voices including Joelle Taylor ()

This Saturday (18th April) at 4 pm


🎟 Tickets via Lyra Festival — link in their bio / website

A few months on from BPFF 2025, your generosity continues to mean everything to us! 🍉Together, you helped us raise over ...
27/03/2026

A few months on from BPFF 2025, your generosity continues to mean everything to us! 🍉

Together, you helped us raise over £5,538 for the Palestinian Red Crescent Society — a testament to the power of community and solidarity.

Over the coming weeks, we’ll be looking back at everything that made last year’s festival so special — the films, the people, the moments. Stay tuned. 🎬

04/02/2026

Travel across decades of memory, love and loss in Cherien Dabis’ powerful Palestinian epic, ALL THAT’S LEFT OF YOU.

The film premiered at BPFF in November, and is now showing in UK cinemas — including at from this weekend.

If you missed it at our sold-out screening in November, now’s your chance.🎬 THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB — the deeply moving ...
04/02/2026

If you missed it at our sold-out screening in November, now’s your chance.

🎬 THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB — the deeply moving film nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature — is now showing in cinemas across the UK.

A vital film to see on the big screen. Don’t miss it.

19/01/2026

If you didn’t get the chance to see this film at our sold-out screening in November, The Voice of Hind Rajab is now in UK cinemas from 16 January, including at .

Written and directed by Oscar nominee Kaouther Ben Hania (), the film tells the true story of Hind Rajab, a five-year-old girl trapped under fire in Gaza, and the Palestinian Red Crescent responders who tried to save her.

“May the voice of Hind Rajab be heard.”

Last few days of Bristol Palestine Film Festival at The Island — catch it before it goes.Our Art of the Palestinian Post...
11/12/2025

Last few days of Bristol Palestine Film Festival at The Island — catch it before it goes.

Our Art of the Palestinian Poster exhibition runs only until Saturday 13 December, with bold works from landmark Palestinian artists and contemporary poster-makers. If you haven’t visited yet, now’s the time.

📅 Exhibition open daily, 12:00–18:00 (until 13 Dec)

And this Saturday: a powerful poetry reading of 48kg by Batool Abu Akleen () at 18:00.
Tickets via link in bio.

It’s also your last chance to pick up festival merch at The Island: posters, keffiyehs, olive-wood ornaments, tea towels, books, soap, and our artist-designed T-shirts in collaboration with Revolting Threads (.threads) — with proceeds directly supporting Palestinian artists and humanitarian care in Gaza.

📍 The Island Gallery, Bridewell Street

Thank you to everyone who joined us at The Little Theatre Cinema for our sold-out screening of Palestine 36, presented i...
07/12/2025

Thank you to everyone who joined us at The Little Theatre Cinema for our sold-out screening of Palestine 36, presented in partnership with Bath Friends of Palestine and BPFF.

Together, the event raised an incredible £1,707.28 for the Palestinian Red Crescent.

Huge thanks to the generous community in Bath for making this possible.

We’ve restocked our BPFF merchandise — including Bethlehem hand-carved olive-wood ornaments, tatreez pouches, and new Ar...
06/12/2025

We’ve restocked our BPFF merchandise — including Bethlehem hand-carved olive-wood ornaments, tatreez pouches, and new Arabic calligraphy art prints by Haifa-based artist Ahmad Zoabi ().

All proceeds support Palestinian artists and artisans.

Available this weekend:
• Watershed ()— Saturday from 12:00
• The Cube () — Sunday from 15:30

More info at the link in bio.

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