Reel Palestine Film Festival 2021 - 7th Edition
Reel Palestine returned on January 22nd-30th 2021 for its seventh edition, excited to share films with its community of supporters. Reel Palestine is a community-driven film festival run by volunteers and a passion for cinema. Reel Palestine’s 7th edition took place in collaboration with our long term partner Cinema Akil, the GCC’s only arthouse cinema. Reel Palestine's focus has been to build a community in the United Arab Emirates and around the world by bringing the best of cinema from Palestine and its diaspora.
The 2021 festival was a celebration of life itself: presenting stories of love, of family, of tears, of joy and heartbreak, of breaking bread and dancing, of romance and the creative spirit of humanity. The festival showcased films by celebrated international award winning directors as well as up and coming first-time filmmakers presenting narrative and documentary features and shorts across genres ranging from sci-fi to romantic comedies. The Palestine in our films was real and breathing with an artistic expression that has the ability to touch, transform and inspire. |
Reel Palestine Film Festival 2021 Trailer |
Reel Palestine 2021 Films & Shorts
Reel Palestine Film Festival 2021 screened over 28 features, documentaries and shorts which
premiered in the UAE for the first time.
premiered in the UAE for the first time.
Reel Palestine 2021 Collaborations
Reel Palestine Souk
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Visual Storytelling Workshop
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Radio Al Hara
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Still Pasts
Yazan Kopty in collaboration with Dima Srouji, Milena Desse, and Vivien Sansour
Presented by Gulf Photo Plus & Reel Palestine
Gulf Photo Plus exhibited works curated by Yazan Kopty (Imagining the Holy) who collaborated with filmmakers Dima Srouji, Milena Desse, and Vivien Sansour in a series of conversations connecting archival images of Palestine with contemporary film. Using still fragments from the archive as prompts, they interrogated how images, both past and present, still and moving, have documented and driven the complex histories that are the subjects of their works.
Re-live the Magic of Reel Palestine 2021
Reel Palestine x Kave Workshops
in collaboration with and hosted by Kave
Silver Jewelry
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Programmatic Partners: Cinema Akil
Since 2016, Reel Palestine has partnered with Cinema Akil, the GCC's only arthouse cinema, as programmatic partners. In 2019, with the official opening of the Cinema Akil space in Alserkal Avenue, it has since become Reel Palestine's home.
Cinema Akil is an independent cinema platform that brings quality films from across the world to the audiences in the UAE. Showcasing directors and filmmakers across the decades, Cinema Akil aims to create awareness and interest in film and the cinematic arts. Launched in 2014 as a nomadic cinema, Cinema Akil has held more than 80 pop-up cinemas attracting over 50,000 attendees in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah. |