Insurgent Transmissions: A Palestine Film Series presents monthly screenings on the first Wednesday of each month at Bryant Lake Bowl. Join us on June 4, 2025 at 7pm for a 90 minute program of short films, curated by Queer Cinema for Palestine.
ABOUT QCP
Queer Cinema for Palestine (QCP) announces No Pride in Genocide, a global film event, co-organized by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and 50+ partners in 25 countries, from China to Ecuador. The third edition of QCP invites grassroots, solidarity and arts organizations across the world to host screenings of a stellar collectively curated short film program throughout the month of June 2025.
This year’s program focuses on the work of queer, Palestinian, and allied artists, across locales, in historic Palestine and the diaspora, identities, lengths, styles and genres (doc-hybrid, experimental, fiction, and animation) to highlight art’s position in resistance and the struggle for liberation.
Israel continues to attempt to instrumentalize our identities as queer and trans people to justify its genocide against Palestinians, including murdering, blackmailing, and imprisoning queer and trans Palestinians. Accordingly, this festival will take place during June 2025, the month that marks Pride in many countries worldwide. We do so to continue our refusal of Israel’s pinkwashing.
FILMS IN PROGRAM:
Abgad Hawaz, Robin Riad, 1min, Canada (2024)
Out of Gaza, Seza Tiyara Selen, Jannis Osterburg, 9min, Germany (2025)
Blood Like Water, Dima Hamdan, 14min, Palestine (2023)
a tangled web drowning in honey, Tara Hakim & Hannah Hull, 9min, Canada (2023)
Aliens in Beirut, Raghed Charabaty, 16min, Lebanon, Canada (2025)
Palcorecore, Dana Dawud, 8min, Internet footage from Palestine (2023)
I never promised you a Jasmine Garden, Teyama AlKamli, 20min, Canada (2023)
Don’t take my joy away, Omar Gabriel, 7min, Lebanon (2024)
ABOUT INSURGENT TRANSMISSIONS
Insurgent Transmissions is a film series highlighting the varied Palestinian experience. Made by contemporary Palestinian makers, the films depict the many ways that Palestinians resist occupation in their daily lives and filmmaking practices. Beginning with Annemarie Jacir’s touching family drama, Wajib, the programming will unfold as a series of transmissions: Jacir chooses the second film, and each subsequent filmmaker will select the next film in the series. The films in Insurgent Transmissions highlight the works of contemporary Palestinian filmmakers, amplifying their voices through their films and the films they see as most urgent in this moment of cultural erasure and genocide.
This monthly series is presented by Mizna monthly at Bryant Lake Bowl. Online tickets are $10, tickets at the door are sliding scale $5–15. Additional opportunities to support urgent grassroots fundraisers in Gaza will be available at the screening.
ACCESSIBILITY:
To make these events accessible, masks are STRONGLY ENCOURAGED. Unfortunately we cannot require masks because Bryant Lake Bowl serves food and drinks inside the screening space. All films will have English subtitles.
Mizna
Queer Cinema for Palestine
Tickets are $10 in Advance / $5 - $15 Sliding Scale at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.