BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:adamgibbons/ics METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:22501@offbeat.amsterdam SUMMARY:Queer Cinema for Palestine x Ventilator Cinema DTSTAMP:20260520T075129Z DTSTART:20260606T150000Z DTEND:20260606T180000Z DESCRIPTION:Line up: Mama Ganuush\, Teodor Vladár\, Dua Omari\, Huss\, R.R. John Greyson\nOpen: 17:00 - 20:00 hrs\nTickets: € 0\n\nNo Pride in Genoci de\n\nThis Pride month of June will\, Queer Cinema for Palestine (QCP)\n[h ttps://queercinemaforpalestine.org/] and Ventilator Cinema come together i n\nAmsterdam for No Pride in Genocide — part of QCP’s fourth annual global film\nprogram uniting grassroots\, solidarity\, and arts organizations wo rldwide through\ncollectively curated short films.\n\nQueer Cinema for Pal estine began as an ethical alternative to the Israeli\nstate-sponsored TLV Fest LGBTQ Film Festival\, following the Palestinian call for\nthe academi c and cultural boycott of Israel. Over the past years\, hundreds of\nfilmm akers and artists have joined in solidarity with queer and trans\nPalestin ians resisting occupation\, pinkwashing\, censorship\, and colonial\nviole nce.\n\nThis year’s program brings together queer\, Palestinian\, and alli ed artists\nacross genres\, geographies\, and cinematic forms — highlighti ng the role of art\nin resistance\, memory\, and liberation.\n\nIn light o f Israel’s ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing across Gaza\, the West\nB ank\, and historic Palestine\, we stand in solidarity with Palestinians an d\nreject the instrumentalization of queer and trans identities to justify violence\nand oppression.\n\nThe program will be introduced by Nadia Slim i\n\nBDS [https://bdsnederland.nl/]representative Nadia Slimi is committed to\nintersectional activism and social justice. Alongside her work within BDS\, she\nadvocates for justice for people\, animals\, and the environme nt in both her\nprofessional and personal life. With a background in manag ement\, Nadia recently\nreturned from six months of volunteer work in Sout h America\, where she\ncontributed to grassroots community initiatives.\n\ nSchedule\n\n▫️ 17:00 — Doors\n▪️ 17:30 — Short Film Program\n▪️ 19:30 — Drin ks & Music\n\nFilm Program\n\nA Message\, Mama Ganuush\, 2:51 min\, Palest ine (2026)\n\nAudio: English\nSubitles: English\n\nA short documentary fil m capturing the queer Palestinian voices in exile.\n\nMama Ganuush is a tr ans Palestinian performance artist\, filmmaker\, organizer\,\nand activist whose work is a potent and unflinching expression of Palestinian\nfuturis m. Based between San Francisco and Lisbon\, their performances are a\npowe rful synthesis of Palestinian folk art and music\, the elegance of Egyptia n\ngolden-era dance\, and the raw\, spontaneous energy of clown and theate r.\n\nCeasefire بِكَفِّي قَهْـر \, Teodor Vladár\, 23 min\, Slovakia/Hunga ry (2025)\n\nAudio: English\, Arabic\, Slovak\nSubitles: English\, Slovak\ n\nNawras\, a Jordanian-Palestinian queer artist\, has been living in Slov akia\,\nBratislava for the past four years. Living within two communities and clashing\ncultures\, she is pushed towards a third goal\; to find peac e and a place she can\ncall home. Now\, she is reclaiming the culture she was born into\, this time\, as\nshe chooses to define it\, and in doing so \, creating a community which becomes\nher family.\n\nTeodor Vladár is 21 years old and currently studying at the Academy of\nperforming arts in Bra tislava\, Slovakia. He has studied in Spain and France\, the\nlatter being film studies in Paris. He is involved in queer and pro-Palestinian\nactiv ism and wants to give voices to people by creating documentaries. He is a\ nwriter and a screenwriter as well\, having won multiple short story compe titions\nin Slovakia. He is also the host of a podcast “Nami o nás”\, whic h focuses on\nqueer identities in world filmography. “Ceasefire” is his di recting debut\, which\nhe has created with the financial help of a crowdfu nding campaign.\n\nThe 5-Year Plan for Financial Independence\, Dua Omari\ , 7 min\, Palestine (2025)\n\nAudio: English\nSubitles: English\n\nThis vi deo reflects on Palestine’s history as a repeating cycle of injustice\,\ni magining a future where the system remains unchanged and violence continue s. It\nexposes the failure of the global system to deliver real justice\, offering only\nsymbolic solutions that do not improve daily life. Palestin ians are forced to\nadapt to conditions below basic human dignity\, kept i n a state of false hope\nwith no clear path to freedom or dignity.\n\nDua Omari is a visual artist from Jerusalem working across video and painting. \nShe holds degrees in Psychology and Contemporary Visual Arts from Birzei t\nUniversity. Her practice explores the intersection between the individu al psyche\nand the political and social reality\, with a focus on psycholo gical and lived\nexperiences under systems of oppression\, particularly th ose of women\, children\,\nand Palestinian society under occupation. She h as participated in local and\ninternational exhibitions and has completed artist residencies at the Spanish\nAcademy in Rome and the A. M. Qattan Fo undation.\n\nUntil We Return\, Huss AC\, 11 min\, Egypt/Scotland (2025)\n\ nAudio: English\nSubitles: English\n\nUntil We Return drifts between memor y and dream\, moving from the flicker of a\nsixth birthday on VHS to the f inal unknowing farewell of a vanished home.\nUnfolding like a passage alon g the Nile\, through dreamlike currents of Cairo\nwhere memory and presenc e blur\, part vision\, part yearning\, part possibility.\nUpon its waters\ , a fragile utopia awakens\, a world where separation never came\nto be\, where return is still within reach\, and the home once lost flows back\nin to being.\n\nHuss is an Arab multidisciplinary artist\, performer\, filmma ker\, and film\nprogrammer based in Glasgow. His work explores queerness\, memory\, and exile\,\nweaving personal and political narratives that conf ront displacement\,\ncensorship\, and survival. Moving across film\, perfo rmance\, installation\, and\nsound\, his practice creates space for fragme nted histories and silenced voices\,\nchallenging dominant narratives arou nd Arab and diasporic experience.\n\nWe Will Haunt Your Archive\, R.R.\, 1 0 min\, United States (2026)\n\nAudio: English\nSubitles: None\n\nDecember 2\, 2023. A queer protest erupts in San Francisco in solidarity with\nPal estine.The film situates this action within the longer history of ACT UP’s \nactivism during the AIDS crisis. It explores glitch as a radical feminis t tactic\nfor resisting contemporary regimes of surveillance and silencing .\n\nR.R. is a filmmaker\, scholar\, and multimedia journalist. He has wor ked as a\njournalist for international publications such as The Los Angele s Times and\nbroadcast outlets including CNN and Al Jazeera Documentary Ch annel. His\naward-winning films have screened at international film festiv als and venues\nsuch as IDFA\, the Centre Pompidou in Paris\, and the Paci fic Film Archive in\nBerkeley.\n\nSorry\, John Greyson\, 7 min\, Canada (2 024)\n\nAudio: English\nSubitles: English\n\nA portrait of three young wom en: Luna Alyaan\, a young Gaza violinist\, killed by\nan Elbit drone\; Ede n Golan\, a Zionist singer who represented Israel at 2024’s\nEurovision in Malmo\; and Greta Thunberg\, who lead protests at Eurovision that\nyear. A dark satire of Israel’s weaponization of song for hasbara (propaganda)\n purposes\, Sorry uses humour and pop culture to create a mash-up agit-prop in\nsupport of the ongoing Eurovision boycott and the Dump Elbit campaign . (Inspired\nby Toronto Palestine Film Festival’s Gaza Lives tribute to ar tists lost in the\ngenocide).\n\nJohn Greyson is an award-winning queer To ronto video/film artist\, whose\nfeatures\, shorts and transmedia works in clude: Unauthorized Amplification\nDevices (2026)\, Gauze (2025)\, Door Pr ize (2025)\, Death Mask (2024)\, Photo Booth\n(2023)\, International Dawn Chorus Day (2020)\, Mercurial (2018)\, Gazonto (2016)\,\nMurder in Passing (2013)\, Fig Trees (2009)\, Proteus (2003)\, Lilies (1996)\, Zero\nPatien ce (1993)\, The Making of Monsters (1991) and Urinal (1989). URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/queer-cinema-for-palestine-x-ventilator -cinema GEO:52.3601403;4.8656923 LOCATION:OT301 - Overtoom 301\, 1054 HW Amsterdam STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:activism,alternative,amsterdam-west,community,dance,documentary, exhibition,festivals,film,music,performance,pride,queer,shorts,stories,the ater,vondelparkbuurt X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Line up: Mama Ganuush, Teodor Vladár, Dua Omari, Huss, R.R. John Greyson
Open: 17: 00 - 20:00 hrs
Tickets: € 0

No Pride in Ge nocide

This Pride month of June will, Queer Cinema for Palestine (QCP ) and Ventilator Cinema come together in Amsterdam for No Pride in Genocide — part of QCP’s fourth annual global film program uniting g rassroots, solidarity, and arts organizations worldwide through collective ly curated short films.

Queer Cinema for Palestine began as an ethi cal alternative to the Israeli state-sponsored TLVFest LGBTQ Film Festival , following the Palestinian call for the academic and cultural boycott of Israel. Over the past years, hundreds of filmmakers and artists have joine d in solidarity with queer and trans Palestinians resisting occupation, pi nkwashing, censorship, and colonial violence.

This year’s program b rings together queer, Palestinian, and allied artists across genres, geogr aphies, and cinematic forms — highlighting the role of art in resistance, memory, and liberation.

In light of Israel’s ongoing genocide and e thnic cleansing across Gaza, the West Bank, and historic Palestine, we sta nd in solidarity with Palestinians and reject the instrumentalization of q ueer and trans identities to justify violence and oppression.

The p rogram will be introduced by Nadia Slimi

BDS representative Nadia Slimi is committed t o intersectional activism and social justice. Alongside her work within BD S, she advocates for justice for people, animals, and the environment in b oth her professional and personal life. With a background in management, N adia recently returned from six months of volunteer work in South America, where she contributed to grassroots community initiatives.

Schedu le

▫️ 17:00 — Doors
▪️ 17:30 — Short Film Program
▪️ 19:30 — Drinks & Music

Film Program

A Message, Mama Ganuush, 2:51 min, Palestine (2026)

Audio: English
Subitles: English

A short documentary film capt uring the queer Palestinian voices in exile.

Mama Ganuush is a trans Palestinian performance artist, filmmaker, organizer, a nd activist whose work is a potent and unflinching expression of Palestini an futurism. Based between San Francisco and Lisbon, their performances ar e a powerful synthesis of Palestinian folk art and music, the elegance of Egyptian golden-era dance, and the raw, spontaneous energy of clown and th eater.

Ceasefire بِكَفِّي قَهْـر , Teodor Vladár, 23 min, Slovakia/Hungary (2025)

Audio: English, Arabic, Sl ovak
Subitles: English, Slovak

Nawras, a Jordanian-Palestinian queer artist, has been living in Slovakia, Bratislava for the past four ye ars. Living within two communities and clashing cultures, she is pushed to wards a third goal; to find peace and a place she can call home. Now, she is reclaiming the culture she was born into, this time, as she chooses to define it, and in doing so, creating a community which becomes her family.

Teodor Vladár is 21 years old and currently study ing at the Academy of performing arts in Bratislava, Slovakia. He has stud ied in Spain and France, the latter being film studies in Paris. He is inv olved in queer and pro-Palestinian activism and wants to give voices to pe ople by creating documentaries. He is a writer and a screenwriter as well, having won multiple short story competitions in Slovakia. He is also the host of a podcast “Nami o nás”, which focuses on queer identities in world filmography. “Ceasefire” is his directing debut, which he has created wit h the financial help of a crowdfunding campaign.

The 5- Year Plan for Financial Independence, Dua Omari, 7 min, Palestine (20 25)

Audio: English
Subitles: English

This video reflects on Palestine’s history as a repeating cycle of injustice, imagin ing a future where the system remains unchanged and violence continues. It exposes the failure of the global system to deliver real justice, offerin g only symbolic solutions that do not improve daily life. Palestinians are forced to adapt to conditions below basic human dignity, kept in a state of false hope with no clear path to freedom or dignity.

Dua Omari is a visual artist from Jerusalem working across video and painting. She holds degrees in Psychology and Contemporary Visual Arts fr om Birzeit University. Her practice explores the intersection between the individual psyche and the political and social reality, with a focus on ps ychological and lived experiences under systems of oppression, particularl y those of women, children, and Palestinian society under occupation. She has participated in local and international exhibitions and has completed artist residencies at the Spanish Academy in Rome and the A. M. Qattan Fou ndation.

Until We Return, Huss AC, 11 min, Egypt/S cotland (2025)

Audio: English
Subitles: English

Until We Return drifts between memory and dream, moving from the flicker of a sixth birthday on VHS to the final unknowing farewell of a vanished h ome. Unfolding like a passage along the Nile, through dreamlike currents o f Cairo where memory and presence blur, part vision, part yearning, part p ossibility. Upon its waters, a fragile utopia awakens, a world where separ ation never came to be, where return is still within reach, and the home o nce lost flows back into being.

Huss is an Arab mu ltidisciplinary artist, performer, filmmaker, and film programmer based in Glasgow. His work explores queerness, memory, and exile, weaving personal and political narratives that confront displacement, censorship, and surv ival. Moving across film, performance, installation, and sound, his practi ce creates space for fragmented histories and silenced voices, challenging dominant narratives around Arab and diasporic experience.

We Will Haunt Your Archive, R.R., 10 min, United States (2026)

Audio: English
Subitles: None

December 2, 2023. A queer protest erupts in San Francisco in solidarity with Palestine.The fi lm situates this action within the longer history of ACT UP’s activism dur ing the AIDS crisis. It explores glitch as a radical feminist tactic for r esisting contemporary regimes of surveillance and silencing.

R.R. is a filmmaker, scholar, and multimedia journalist. He has worked as a journalist for international publications such as The Los Ang eles Times and broadcast outlets including CNN and Al Jazeera Documentary Channel. His award-winning films have screened at international film festi vals and venues such as IDFA, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Pacifi c Film Archive in Berkeley.

Sorry, John Greyson, 7 min, Canada (2024)

Audio: English
Subitles: English

A portrait of three young women: Luna Alyaan, a young Gaza violinist , killed by an Elbit drone; Eden Golan, a Zionist singer who represented I srael at 2024’s Eurovision in Malmo; and Greta Thunberg, who lead protests at Eurovision that year. A dark satire of Israel’s weaponization of song for hasbara (propaganda) purposes, Sorry uses humour and pop culture to cr eate a mash-up agit-prop in support of the ongoing Eurovision boycott and the Dump Elbit campaign. (Inspired by Toronto Palestine Film Festival’s Ga za Lives tribute to artists lost in the genocide).

John Gre yson is an award-winning queer Toronto video/film artist, whose f eatures, shorts and transmedia works include: Unauthorized Amplification D evices (2026), Gauze (2025), Door Prize (2025), Death Mask (2024), Photo B ooth (2023), International Dawn Chorus Day (2020), Mercurial (2018), Gazon to (2016), Murder in Passing (2013), Fig Trees (2009), Proteus (2003), Lil ies (1996), Zero Patience (1993), The Making of Monsters (1991) and Urinal (1989).

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