Running parallel to the Berlinale this February, Refuge Worldwide will host Falastin Cinema Week: five days of film screenings, talks, and art exploring Palestinian histories and decolonial narratives. The events will take place at Refuge’s Niemetzstraße community space in Berlin and at Spore Initiative.
Together with AL.Berlin, Jewish Bund, Diaspora Rising, Spore Initiative, Jüdische Stimme, Irish Bloc Berlin, Rawy Films, SPACE OF URGENCY, Salma Elshami, Amal Abu Hanna, House Of Base, and more, Falastin Cinema Week is scheduled to run daily from Monday 17th February to Friday 21st February.
Although a tentative ceasefire is in place, February 2025 will mark the 77th year of the occupation. We call for an end to the apartheid regime, the right to return, sovereignty, and self-determination for all Indigenous Palestinian and Levantine people. We stand in solidarity with the Palestinian liberation movement and with all interconnected decolonial struggles.
The full programme and tickets are available on the Refuge Worldwide website.
The artwork visual is a film still from O, Persecuted, courtesy of Basma al-Sharif. Commissioned by the Palestine Film Foundation to make a film in response to Kassem Hawal’s 1974 Our Small Houses, O, Persecuted uses the act of restoration to force the burden of history onto an unforeseen future. Graphics are by Bianca Mocan.
Access Info
Refuge Worldwide’s community space is located at Niemetzstraße 1, 12055 Berlin. All the rooms used for the event are step-free and located on the ground floor. There is a gender-neutral step-free toilet that’s accessible for wheelchair users.
There will be a variety of seating options: chairs and beanbags.
We encourage guests to do COVID-19 tests before coming and will also have some tests available at the door.
No one will be turned away due to lack of funds.
If you have any access requests, please email nicky@refugeworldwide.com
