Donderdag 4 juni, 20:30
No Pride in Genocide
Queer Cinema for Palestine
NL Samen met Queer Cinema for Palestine viert Filmhuis Cavia Palestijnse stemmen en betuigt het queer solidariteit met Palestijnen en hun bevrijdingsstrijd. Cavia werkt deze Pride-maand samen met Queer Cinema for Palestine om een gezamenlijk programma te presenteren dat zich richt op de wereld van queer Palestijnse en geallieerde kunstenaars, in historisch Palestina, in de diaspora en daarbuiten.
Naast het 60 minuten durende programma dat QCP heeft samengesteld, vertonen we ook de korte film Etir van Fateema Al-Hamaydeh Miller.
De volledige opbrengst van de vertoning wordt gedoneerd aan Artsen zonder Grenzen ter ondersteuning van hun werk in Palestina, waar zij medische humanitaire hulp bieden aan Palestijnen die getroffen zijn door conflict, ontheemding en belegering.
EN Alongside Queer Cinema for Palestine, Filmhuis Cavia celebrates Palestinian voices and expresses queer solidarity with Palestinians and their liberation struggle. Cavia has partnered with Queer Cinema for Palestine this Pride month to bring a shared programme focusing on the world of queer Palestinian and allied artists, in historic Palestine, across the diaspora and beyond.
In addition to the 60-minute programme QCP has put together, we will also be screening the short film Etir by Fateema Al-Hamaydeh Miller.
All proceeds of the screening will be donated to Doctors without borders to support their work in Palestine as they provide medical humanitarian assistance to Palestinians affected by conflict, displacement and siege.
A Message
Mama Ganuush | 2026 | Palestine | 2’ | English, EN subtitles
NL Een korte documentaire die de stemmen van queer Palestijnen in ballingschap vastlegt.
Mama Ganuush is een trans Palestijnse performancekunstenaar, filmmaker, organisator en activist wiens werk een krachtige en onverschrokken uiting is van Palestijns futurisme. Hun performances, die afwisselend in San Francisco en Lissabon plaatsvinden, vormen een krachtige synthese van Palestijnse volkskunst en -muziek, de elegantie van Egyptische dans uit de gouden eeuw en de rauwe, spontane energie van clownerie en theater.
EN A short documentary film capturing the queer Palestinian voices in exile.
Mama Ganuush is a trans Palestinian performance artist, filmmaker, organizer, and activist whose work is a potent and unflinching expression of Palestinian futurism. Based between San Francisco and Lisbon, their performances are a powerful synthesis of Palestinian folk art and music, the elegance of Egyptian golden-era dance, and the raw, spontaneous energy of clown and theatre.
Ceasefire بِكَفِّي قَهْـر
Teodor Vladár | 2025 | Slovakia/Hungary | 23’ | EN subtitles
EN Nawras, a Jordanian-Palestinian queer artist, has been living in Slovakia, Bratislava for the past four years. Living within two communities and clashing cultures, she is pushed towards a third goal; to find peace and a place she can call home. Now, she is reclaiming the culture she was born into, this time, as she chooses to define it, and in doing so, creating a community which becomes her family.
Teodor Vladár is 21 years old and currently studying at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, Slovakia. He has studied in Spain and France, the latter being film studies in Paris. He is involved in queer and pro-Palestinian activism and wants to give voices to people by creating documentaries. He is a writer and a screenwriter as well, having won multiple short story competitions in Slovakia. He is also the host of a podcast Nami o nás, which focuses on queer identities in world filmography. Ceasefire is his directing debut, which he has created with the financial help of a crowdfunding campaign.
The Five-Year Plan for Financial Independence
Dua Omari | 2025 | Palestine | 7’ | English, EN subtitles
EN This video reflects on Palestine’s history as a repeating cycle of injustice, imagining a future where the system remains unchanged, and violence continues. It exposes the failure of the global system to deliver real justice, offering only symbolic solutions that do not improve daily life. Palestinians are forced to adapt to conditions below basic human dignity, kept in a state of false hope with no clear path to freedom or dignity.
Dua Omari is a visual artist from Jerusalem working across video and painting. She holds degrees in Psychology and Contemporary Visual Arts from Birzeit University. Her practice explores the intersection between the individual psyche and the political and social reality, with a focus on psychological and lived experiences under systems of oppression, particularly those of women, children, and Palestinian society under occupation. She has participated in local and international exhibitions and has completed artist residencies at the Spanish Academy in Rome and the A. M. Qattan Foundation.
Until We Return
Huss AC | 2025 | Egypt/Scotland | 11’ | English, EN subtitles
EN Until We Return drifts between memory and dream, moving from the flicker of a sixth birthday on VHS to the final unknowing farewell of a vanished home. Unfolding like a passage along the Nile, through dreamlike currents of Cairo where memory and presence blur, part vision, part yearning, part possibility. Upon its waters, a fragile utopia awakens, a world where separation never came to be, where return is still within reach, and the home once lost flows back into being.
Huss is an Arab multidisciplinary artist, performer, filmmaker, and film programmer based in Glasgow. His work explores queerness, memory, and exile, weaving personal and political narratives that confront displacement, censorship, and survival. Moving across film, performance, installation, and sound, his practice creates space for fragmented histories and silenced voices, challenging dominant narratives around Arab and diasporic experience.
We Will Haunt Your Archive
R. R. | 2026 | United States | 10’ | English
EN December 2, 2023. A queer protest erupts in San Francisco in solidarity with Palestine. The film situates this action within the longer history of ACT UP’s activism during the AIDS crisis. It explores glitch as a radical feminist tactic for resisting contemporary regimes of surveillance and silencing.
R.R. is a filmmaker, scholar, and multimedia journalist. He has worked as a journalist for international publications such as The Los Angeles Times and broadcast outlets including CNN and Al Jazeera Documentary Channel. His award-winning films have screened at international film festivals and venues such as IDFA, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley.
Sorry
John Greyson | 2024 | Canada | 7’ | EN subtitles
EN A portrait of three young women: Luna Alyaan, a young Gaza violinist, killed by an Elbit drone; Eden Golan, a Zionist singer who represented Israel at 2024’s Eurovision in Malmo; and Greta Thunberg, who led protests at Eurovision that year. A dark satire of Israel’s weaponization of song for hasbara (propaganda) purposes, Sorry uses humour and pop culture to create a mash-up agit-prop in support of the ongoing Eurovision boycott and the Dump Elbit campaign. (Inspired by Toronto Palestine Film Festival’s Gaza Lives tribute to artists lost in the genocide).
John Greyson is an award-winning queer Toronto video/film artist, whose features, shorts and transmedia works include: Unauthorized Amplification Devices (2026), Gauze (2025), Door Prize (2025), Death Mask (2024), Photo Booth (2023), International Dawn Chorus Day (2020), Mercurial (2018), Gazonto (2016), Murder in Passing (2013), Fig Trees (2009), Proteus (2003), Lilies (1996), Zero Patience (1993), The Making of Monsters (1991) and Urinal (1989).
Etir
Fateema Al-Hamaydeh Miller | 2022 | Canada | 15’ | EN subtitles
EN A closeted Arab wholesale perfume seller, attempting to mask his identity with excessive amounts of Polo Sport adjacent cologne, is knocked off centre when a charming customer sees through his act.
Fateema Al-Hamaydeh Miller is a mixed-race Palestinian filmmaker whose work explores fragmented identity, grief & post-traumatic growth through “oh no, should I laugh?” comedy. Fateema is a Women in the Director’s Chair and CFC Directors’ Lab alumna and recently completed a fellowship for Middle Eastern writers at USC. She is a firm believer in resistance & resilience through laughter.