Palestine Cinema Days Festival is an annual event organized by Filmlab Palestine in October of each year. It aims to put Palestine on the map of the global Cinema industry and the film scene, in addition to promoting local and international films across several places in different cities within Palestine. Film Lab: Palestine launched the first edition of Palestine Cinema Days in 2014 (which was called Cinema Days) and it has become an annual tradition ever since.

It was a challenge to reach the 10th edition of Palestine Cinema Days, which would have been a significant milestone for the festival and the Palestinian film industry. Last October, we planned a celebratory edition, but we decided to stop our activities after the genocide in Gaza began.

The genocide has not stopped, and our sense of powerlessness has only grown. Nevertheless, our narrative has gained global popular solidarity, and we still own it.

In a TEDx talk in Shujaiya in October 2015, Dr. Refaat Alareer stated: “As Palestinians under occupation, storytelling transcends the didactic value to an urgent need to owning our narrative, something that gives back power to the people rather than the elite. Stories that people can tell about a land are proofs of their right to that land”.

3 films, not in loop:

1) "Infiltrators" by Khaled Jarrar (70 minutes)
2) "Resistance, Why" by Christian Ghazi (56 minutes)
3) "Ma’loul Celebrates its Destruction" by Michel Khleifi (31 minutes)