Cinema, art, music & culture from #Palestine to #Toronto.📽️ Save the date our 19th Festival running Sept 30-Oct 9, 2026!
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Join us for the Toronto Palestine Film Festival’s annual Nakba Commemoration event: Palestine from Nakba to Genocide with @MouinRabbani.
🗓️ Date: Friday, May 15, 2026
🕕 Time: 6:00 PM
📍 Location: OISE Auditorium , 252 Bloor St W.
Register: bit.ly/3OZ8idV
TOPalestineFilmFestival retweeted
“We’re getting to the point where we’re banning books by best-selling authors because we can't sustain a conversation on Palestine?” — Tareq Baconi
From our landmark Southbank Centre conversation between Baconi, Ta-Nehisi Coates and Nesrine Malik.
TOPalestineFilmFestival retweeted
I can hardly imagine anyone who hasn’t seen this photograph. But it was taken on this day in 2000.
I cannot believe the photo is 26 years old now.
The boy in the photograph was Fares Odeh. He was just 14 years old.
Ten days after this image was captured, Fares went out again to throw stones at Israeli tanks, seeking to avenge the killing of his 17-year-old cousin.
An Israeli sniper shot him in the neck, killing him.
And there is another chilling detail to this photograph.
The photo changed Israeli tank doctrine. In August 2001, The Jerusalem Post quoted an anonymous tank doctrinist saying tank personnel were now instructed to fire upon rock-throwers.
TOPalestineFilmFestival retweeted
The Toronto Palestine Film Festival (@TPFF) kicks off today!
Writer Suvendrini Lena got a sneak peek at some of the homegrown short films screening at this year's event.
thegrindmag.ca/short-films-f…
TOPalestineFilmFestival retweeted
Javier Bardem says in #Cannes that genocide being committed in Gaza "is a fact."
"You can fight against, you can try to justify it... it is a fact. If you justify it with your silence or your support, you are pro-genocide. Those are facts for me."
variety.com/2026/film/festiv…
TOPalestineFilmFestival retweeted
#Cannes jury member Paul Laverty says "shame on Hollywood" for blacklisting actors like Susan Sarandon for opposing the war in Gaza.
“Cannes has a wonderful poster [of 'Thelma and Louise']. Isn’t it fascinating to see some of them like Susan Sarandon, Javier Bardem and Mark Ruffalo blacklisted because of their views in opposing the murder of women and children in Gaza? Shame on Hollywood people who do that. My respect and total solidarity to them. They’re the best of us, I look up to them."
TOPalestineFilmFestival retweeted
Hannah Einbinder says Hollywood not speaking out in support of Palestine "pisses me off" and they "need these issues to affect a white person for them" to care.
“I look at these people who have absolutely every privilege imaginable to mankind and they cannot utter a single word. I really can’t understand it... People in Hollywood, unfortunately, need these issues to affect a white person for them to see it as relating to them,” she noted. “Like, they see Jimmy Kimmel getting taken off the air suddenly, they see Stephen Colbert’s show being canceled by CBS, which is owned by the Ellisons, and they go, ‘How could this possibly happen?’ And it’s like, we know how because we saw students and professors and journalists and authors and Palestinian folks be silenced and fired and expelled and imprisoned… it took it happening to these white men for people to be like, ‘Oh my god.’”
variety.com/2026/film/news/h…
This Friday! TPFF's #Nakba Commemoration event with @MouinRabbani. RSVP: zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/tp…
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This Friday!
1 week away from TPFF's Annual #Nakba commemoration event with political analyst @MouinRabbani - RSVP using the link below and join us!
TOPalestineFilmFestival retweeted
1 week away from TPFF's Annual #Nakba commemoration event with political analyst @MouinRabbani - RSVP using the link below and join us!
Join us for the Toronto Palestine Film Festival’s annual Nakba Commemoration event: Palestine from Nakba to Genocide with @MouinRabbani.
🗓️ Date: Friday, May 15, 2026
🕕 Time: 6:00 PM
📍 Location: OISE Auditorium , 252 Bloor St W.
Register: bit.ly/3OZ8idV
1 week away from TPFF's Annual #Nakba commemoration event with political analyst @MouinRabbani - RSVP using the link below and join us!
Join us for the Toronto Palestine Film Festival’s annual Nakba Commemoration event: Palestine from Nakba to Genocide with @MouinRabbani.
🗓️ Date: Friday, May 15, 2026
🕕 Time: 6:00 PM
📍 Location: OISE Auditorium , 252 Bloor St W.
Register: bit.ly/3OZ8idV
TOPalestineFilmFestival retweeted
Melissa Barrera is starting a production company and wants to work with "anyone pro-Palestine."
"I kept track of the people who vocally came out and said something to defend me at the time. Susan Sarandon. Tatiana Maslany. Hannah Einbinder. Poppy Liu. Obviously, Javier Bardem would be a dream to work with. He doesn’t need me to give him any opportunities. But yes, I have lists. I do believe in building a network of people who are like-minded. And for me, this is Chapter 2."
wp.me/pc8uak-1lHe8S
TOPalestineFilmFestival retweeted
I wrote this book under bombardment, under the feeling of death and the end, inside a tent that would glow yellow at night from the intensity of the shelling. I wrote it while my stomach cried from hunger during the Gaza war.
I wrote it day after day, documenting the details of what we were living through, so that this book would stand as a witness to the genocide we are facing in Gaza.
I am sorry if these words hurt your heart or make you cry, but I swear to you that I documented the truth of what we were living through here 💔
For anyone who would like to read it, here is the link: beaconbooks.net/products/dia…
TOPalestineFilmFestival retweeted
Here are the photos that won the @nytimesphoto Gaza photographer Saher Alghorra a 2026 @PulitzerPrizes -- taken under impossible, dangerous conditions even as he lacked supplies and even food. The world is in his debt for chronicling conditions in Gaza. nytimes.com/2026/05/04/world…
TOPalestineFilmFestival retweeted
dear palestinian cinema admirers, i recently discovered a google spreadsheet compiling the list of palestinian cinema index on letterboxd. The spreadsheet has downloadable links to over 700 docs and films.
Kindly, retweet and spread the word!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets…
TOPalestineFilmFestival retweeted
Today, May 3rd, is World Press Freedom Day. The occupation has killed 363 journalists across Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Iran, Yemen, and Syria in the 940 days since October 7, 2023.
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Join us for the Toronto Palestine Film Festival’s annual Nakba Commemoration event: Palestine from Nakba to Genocide with @MouinRabbani.
🗓️ Date: Friday, May 15, 2026
🕕 Time: 6:00 PM
📍 Location: OISE Auditorium , 252 Bloor St W.
Register: bit.ly/3OZ8idV
TOPalestineFilmFestival retweeted
In response to growing demand from film workers, as well as BDS activists globally, the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) lays out below how BDS guidelines apply to complicit Israeli films and TV productions. 🧵
TOPalestineFilmFestival retweeted
Toronto: What we’re seeing now is that (police) are not even distinguishing between protests, academic events or cultural events. Any time there are Palestinians speaking about Palestine, they are viewed as potentially anti-semitic or promoting violence.” thegrindmag.ca/cops-keep-sho…
