Workshop: Creative Resistance (PFFA 2025)

On the fourth and last day of the Palestinian Film Festival Amsterdam, Framer Framed is hosting a creative resistance workshop led by writer, Ahmed Masoud. On 12 October, participants are invited to deploy their creativity for the imagination of new forms of activism.

How do we explore creative ways of speaking out against injustice in Palestine and anywhere in the world? What are the necessary tools? In this workshop, Palestinian writer and theatre director Ahmed Masoud will explore artistic freedom of expression through working with words, creative stunts and other modes of expressions. Come prepared to share your experience, brainstorm together, and, most importantly, to be with like-minded creatives.

This Sunday workshop is open to everyone, with a maximum of 15 participants. Registration is on a first-come basis, and all participants will be asked to complete a short questionnaire on their interest at registration. Register here.

About

Ahmed Masoud is a writer, poet and director who grew up in Palestine and moved to the UK in 2002. He is the author of the acclaimed novels Come What May (2022) and Vanished – The Mysterious Disappearance of Mustafa Ouda (2015).

Palestinian Film Festival Amsterdam

Virtual Remains marks the Palestinian Film Festival Amsterdam’s 10-year anniversary, with Gaza as its central focus. Unfolding over four days, our rich schedule of screenings features over twenty-five films by Palestinian directors with special introductions and post-screening discussions. Alongside it, four workshops, five dialogue sessions, a special culinary storytelling keynote and our ever popular olive oil tasting make up PFFA’s largest parallel event programme to date, exploring topics from creative resistance and intergenerational memory, to film pedagogy and embodied transmission. See full program at thepffa.nl.

To realise the programme, we are pleased to be continuing our collaborations with the arthouse theatres Kriterion, Lab111, Studio/K, and Ventilator Cinema, and to be embarking on new partnerships with the arts organisations De Appel and Framer Framed, and the collective dance studio Jakoozi. The 2025 edition is generously supported by Fonds21, with sponsorship from Tzkrti.