The event will be held in Slovenian and English.
Accessibility for people with mobility impairments: Yes

We invite you to join us for a screening of eight short films curated by Queer Cinema for Palestine, which will be followed by a discussion with artist, video artist, performer and painter Ana Čigon on art’s position in resistance and the liberation struggle.

Queer Cinema for Palestine (QCP) is a collectively curated global film festival celebrating queer realities and standing in solidarity with the struggle of the Palestinian people for freedom, justice and dignity.

The third edition of QCP, under the slogan “No Pride in Genocide”brings together grassroots, solidarity and arts organisations from across the globe to host screenings of a stellar, collectively curated short film programme.

This year’s programme focuses on the work of queer Palestinian and allied artists across locales, in historic Palestine and the diaspora, on various identities, lengths, styles and genres (doc-hybrid, experimental, fiction and animation) to highlight art’s position in resistance and the liberation struggle.

The full programme is available at: https://queercinemaforpalestine.org/2025/04/18/film-program-queer-cinema-for-palestine-2025/

Queer Cinema for Palestine began as an alternative ethical space for filmmakers who pulled out or refused to show their work at the Israeli government-sponsored TLVFest LGBTQ Film Festival. Over the past six years, hundreds of filmmakers have shown their solidarity in response to the boycott call from queer and trans Palestinians.

Israel continues to attempt to instrumentalise LGBTIQ+ identities to justify its genocide against Palestinians, including by murdering, blackmailing and imprisoning queer and trans Palestinians. The Israeli government actively promotes a pinkwashing agenda designed to portray itself in a positive light because it offers some rights to some members of the LGBTQIA+ community, while distracting attention from the daily reality of its military occupation, apartheid, settler colonialism and violent racism against Palestinians.