In light of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and in the occupied West Bank, we present a free programme of publicly available films and reportage videos in solidarity with Palestine. The films include a Special Focus section on the work of historian Edward Said, including key films made for the BBC’s Arena series.
Inspired by the progressive educational and social ethos of Braziers Park, our work as independent film festival curators is founded upon shared values of collectivism, coexistence and equality for all; advocating for social, economic and cimate justice. We decry the Israeli regime’s ongoing atrocities that flout international humanitarian law, including the deliberate use of mass starvation, ecocide, forced displacement and destruction. We stand in solidarity with the statement issued by Filmworkers for Palestine, and advocate this online programme as an educational resource; to amplify the voices, histories, lives and stories of the people of Palestine, and their continuing struggle to achieve liberation, peace and self-determination in their homeland.
See also details on our Short Films for Palestine curated programme, held with our partners MCR Palestine Film Festival and Comma Press in Manchester, December 2024.
Braziers Intermational Film Festival has adopted the guidelines of PACBI, the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.
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Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone, 2025, dir Jamie Roberts – the film the BBC withdrew from iPlayer
Israelism, 2024, dir Erin Axelman and Sam Eilertsen
Gaza Fights for Freedom, dir Abby Martin, 2018. With thanks to MCR Palestine Film Festival
see also: Ash Sarkar interviews Abby Martin, Novara Media, 2024
Israel’s Ecocide in Gaza: 2023-2024, Forensic Architecture, 2024
The Settlers, dir Shimon Dotan, 2016
The Place that is Ours, dir Zena Agha & Dorothy Allen-Pickard, 2022
A Few Crumbs for the Birds, dir Nassim Amaouche, Annemarie Jacir, 2006
‘It’s Bisan from Gaza and I’m Still Alive’, Wizard Bisan, 2024
Full playlist of Bisan Owda’s War Diaries available here
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Hakawatya: The History of Gaza, Wizard Bisan, Tellers Productions, 2024
play all 5 episodes here
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Zionism: Manufacturing a State, dir Yasin Okal, 2024
Your father was born 100 years old and so was the Nakba, dir Razan AlSalah
Les Femmes Palestiniennes, dir Jocelyne Saab, 1974
Investigating war crimes in Gaza, Al Jazeera Investigations, 2024
Kofia: A Revolution Through Music, dir Dr Louis Brehony, 2020
It’s All One River, dir Nick Jordan & Fiona Brehony, 2024
Captain Abeer, dir Abeer Harb, 2016
Checkpoint, dir Ruben Amar, 2011
Stranger in Zion, dir Ben Grayzel, 2020
Jenin Jenin, dir Mohammed Bakri, 2003
The Occupation of the American Mind, dir Loretta Alper and Jeremy Earp, 2016
Shujayya, dir Mohammed Almughanni, 2016
The Shampoo Summit, dir Iris Zaki, 2015
5 Broken Cameras, dir Emad Burnat & Guy Davidi, 2011 (screened at BIFF 2019)
Denied Entry, dir Kate Jangra, 2008 (screened at BIFF 2019)
Budrus, dir Julia Bacha, 2009
The Shepherds Of The West Bank, Journeyman Pictures, 2024
I Signed the Petition, dir Mahdi Fleifel, 2018
Scenes of the Occupation from Gaza, dir Mustafa Abu Ali, 1973
Inside Israeli Apartheid, Mondoweiss, 2022
“Perfect Victims” & Israel’s Criminalization of Thought, Democracy Now!, 2025
Soup Over Bethlehem, dir Larissa Sansour, 2006
Women of the Resistance: Rehab Nazzal, interview 2024
Moving the Landscape to Find Ground: Artist Talk with Rehab Nazzal
Seizing the West Bank: Extremist settlers in power, BBC World Service Documentaries, 2024
Palestine 1920: The Other Side of the Palestinian Story
The Occupied West Bank: The Other Front, Al Jazeera, 2023
Nakba Timeline Map, Nisreen Zahda, 2022
Palestine: A Tale Of A Shredded Homeland, dir Nisreen Zahda, 2024
Not In My Name – The story of a Jewish Israeli dissident, Middle East Eye, 2024
A Muslim Among the Settlers, dir Daniel Lombroso, The Atlantic, 2018
Disregarding Gaza, dir Tamar Glezerman & Arianna LaPenne, 2015
Leve Palestina (Long Live Palestine), song by Kofia, 1978
SPECIAL FOCUS: EDWARD SAID
A series of films featuring Palestinian historian Edward Said
With thanks to The Eqbal Ahmad Project
In Search of Palestine – Edward Said’s Return Home (BBC) 1998
The Shadow of the West – by Edward Said and feat Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, 1986
Exiles – Edward Said, BBC Arena, 1986
Edward Said’s “The Idea of Empire” feat Eqbal Ahmad, BBC Arena, 1993
