As part of the 2025 Palestinian Film Festival Amsterdam, Dialogue Session #1: Cultural Resistance Today opens the festival's five-part dialogue session series with a conversation between novelist, poet and playwright Ahmed Masoud and visual artist Isshaq Albarbary (joining online), which explores connections across literature, theater, cinema, and the visual arts. Starting from Masoud's questions, "Where is cultural resistance now? Where was it before?", the discussion offers a reassessment of the terms of artistic and cultural resistance today, placing renewed emphasis on the importance of imagination in representing pasts, presents and futures. Masoud and Albarbary will be joined in conversation by festival house moderator Yara Yuri Safadi. 

The Dialogue Sessions are a series of conversations taking place throughout the 2025 Palestinian Film Festival Amsterdam, which invite two cultural producers to share short presentations on their practices followed by an extended conversation between them. 

For more details on the speakers, or to see other sessions in the series, visit: thepffa.nl/pffa-2025/films-and-events.

[Image: Isshaq Albarbary, Little Mouth of Cherries (2022); installation with folding stage, carpet, television, video, and metallic vinyl exhibited in the group exhibition Fear of Property at the Renaissance Society, Chicago]