Daily News | Philly’s Queer Cinema for Palestine Film Fest celebrates unsung perspectives to counter ‘repressive’ political narratives
Warsha by Syrian-Lebanese filmmaker Dania Bdeir will screen at Queer Cinema for Palestine Film Festival this year.“In order for you to support queer rights, feminist rights and human rights, you cannot stand behind Israel.”to understand as Philly Palestinians celebrate queer Palestinian experiences through a film festival; a resistance that’s part of the fight for their
A year or so ago, dozens of filmmakers withdrew from the Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival , citing the festival’s expanded partnership with far-right government institutions like the Ministry of Strategic Affairs and its role in Israel’s pinkwashing agenda, “which uses LGBTQIA+ rights to cover up its apartheid regime and its oppression of millions of Palestinians, queer and non queer alike,” the group wrote.
QCP Fest premiered in November 2021 as a global queer initiative centering Palestinian artists and standing in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for emancipation. The festival engages communication and political education with films that highlight the intersectionality of queer and Arab identities. For Qutyan, the festival is a form of Palestinian organizing that focuses on the violence Israel perpetrates on queer Palestinians.
“Following that successful event, this year we wanted to do it again,” they said. “And it’s grown a lot more which is really great because it shows that our movement — the movement for Palestinian liberation and against pinkwashing — is growing.”
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