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Palestinian Film Festival Amsterdam

The Palestinian Film Festival Amsterdam (PFFA) envisions an inclusive podium to showcase a diversity of genres, including drama features, shorts, animations and documentaries, presented by both established and emerging Palestinian directors.‍Founded in 2015 by curator and film programmer Nihal Rabbani, the PFFA emerged from a grassroots community action, fueled by a commitment to create a platform that would address the exclusion of indigenous directors from Palestinian film programmes in the Netherlands.‍PFFA’s purpose is to counter the dominance of films and film programmes on Palestine by foreign and amateur directors. Often shot with handheld cameras, these are usually activist documentaries, which, though recording important political content, can tend to overshadow Palestinian voices in film. The ultimate goal of the PFFA platform is to bring visibility to Palestinian directors who are working across genres, including drama features, shorts, animations and documentaries; and to provide screening opportunities for them to share their artistic narratives and cinematographic experiments with audiences.‍The PFFA is the only running festival focused on Palestinian filmmakers in the Benelux region. The festival continues to expand and deepen its representation of Palestinian voices, both in film and from across fields of cultural production (ranging from photography, poetry and literature, to artisanal handcraft and culinary activism).