Kirjakahvila will host a screening of Queer Cinema for Palestine (QCP) as part of the global “No Pride in Genocide” collectively curated short film program on Wednesday 24 June at 19.00. Free admission.
CQP is a global film event co-organized by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and hundreds of partners, from Kathmandu to Quito, from Hiroshima to Tbilisi. CQP includes more than 300 screenings in 60 countries in 20 languages hosted by queer, solidarity, activist, Indigenous and arts organizations, Pride events, film festivals, independent cinemas, university departments, and libraries.
Taking place during Pride month in many countries worldwide, the fourth edition of CQP aims to expose and fight Israel’s pinkwashing of its atrocities against Palestinians, including Israel’s ongoing Gaza genocide, and highlight a growing number of queer networks and Pride organizations ending complicity in Israel’s crimes. This year’s 60-minute program focuses on the work of queer, Palestinian, and allied artists, in historic Palestine, across the diaspora, and beyond. The program features a diverse mix of identities, lengths, styles, and genres (doc-hybrid, experimental, fiction, and animation) to highlight the key role of art in resistance and the struggle for liberation.
From Finland to South Korea, Turtle Island to Pakistan, Italy to Mexico, hundreds of CQP partners are saying, “There is no pride in genocide.”
Trailer: https://www.instagram.com/p/DYhv6LGhaKm
Programme:
A Message
Mama Ganuush, Palestine 2026, 2:51 min
Audio: English
Subtitles: English
Ceasefire | بِكَفِّي قَهْـر
Teodor Vladár, Slovakia/Hungary 2025, 23 min
Audio: English, Arabic, Slovak
Subitles: English, Slovak
The 5-Year Plan for Financial Independence
Dua Omari, Palestine 2025, 7 min
Audio: English
Subitles: English
Until We Return
Huss AC, Egypt/Scotland 2025, 11 min
Audio: English
Subitles: English
We Will Haunt Your Archive
R.R., United States 2026, 10 min
Audio: English
Subitles: None
Sorry
John Greyson, Canada 2024, 7 min
Audio: English
Subitles: English
Descriptions: https://queercinemaforpalestine.org/2026/04/07/film-program-queer-cinema-for-palestine-2026
Queer Cinema for Palestine began as an alternative ethical space for filmmakers who pulled or refused to show their work in the Israeli government-sponsored TLVFest LGBTQ film festival. Over the past years, hundreds of filmmakers have shown their solidarity in response to the boycott call from Palestinians, including queer and trans Palestinian organizations. As Israel continues its genocide in Gaza, and ethnic cleansing and apartheid rule of the West Bank and across historic Palestine, Queer Cinema for Palestine condemns Israel’s colonial violence and stands in solidarity with Indigenous Palestinians.
Through pinkwashing, Israel instrumentalizes queer and trans identities to try to justify its genocide against Palestinians, including the murder, extortion, and imprisonment of queer and trans Palestinians. In November 2023, Israel’s official social media accounts posted a picture of an Israeli soldier participating in the genocide in Gaza holding a rainbow flag with ”In the name of love” written in English, Arabic, and Hebrew. Such acts of gross pinkwashing and colonial racism seek to erase queer and trans Palestinians, and to suggest that the genocide of Indigenous Palestinians is somehow a pathway to queer liberation.
For the past two and a half years, Israel has accelerated its 78 years of ethnic cleansing, settler colonialism and apartheid across historic Palestine, culminating in its ongoing Gaza genocide killing tens of thousands of Palestinians and destroying much of Gaza’s 4,000-year-old culture.
In the occupied West Bank, Israel has continued raids on refugee camps, displacing residents and destroying homes, schools, mosques, churches, and essential infrastructure necessary for life. Armed fanatic Israeli settlers, with the support of the Israeli military, continue vicious attacks and disappearances of Palestinian children, women, and men from their homes and communities. Across historic Palestine, Palestinians have been criminalized and brutalized for standing against the genocide of their people. At the same time, Israel continues its bombing of Lebanon and its war on Iran together with the United States, imposing a might-makes-right order on the world.
Despite the legal obligations emanating from the rulings by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that Israel is plausibly committing genocide in Gaza and its entire military occupation is illegal, and arrest warrants from the International Criminal Court (ICC) for Israeli leaders, states, corporations and institutions across the world continue their complicity in the genocide, refusing to enact genuine two-way arms embargoes or sanction apartheid Israel. This is why queer collectives across the globe are taking a stand for Palestinian rights and refusing ties with genocidal Israel and its pinkwashing agenda.