London Palestine Film Festival (LPFF) presents its 2024 edition with a selection of recently released titles alongside favorites from throughout the years. The festival aims to present stories of political realities as experienced by Palestinians at home and in the diaspora through the creative lens of cinema. 

The LPFF 2024 programme at the ICA opens with a new film by Larissa Sansour and Soren Lind, Familiar Phantoms, which delves into the Sansour’s family history. Kamal Aljafari’s latest play on image and cinema history, A Fidai Film, flips the script on a contentious past of looted Palestinian archives.

Sat 16 November, 6.30pm
Familiar Phantoms Triple Bill
A programme of three films by Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind, delving into the Sansour’s family history.



Sun 17 November, 6pm
The Fifth War + Scenes from the Occupation of Gaza
Monica Maurer and Samir Nemr's The Fifth War gives a visceral account of the 1978 ‘Litani Operation’, in which Israeli forces invaded south Lebanon aiming to eradicate the PLO. Mustafa Abu Ali's Scenes from the Occupation of Gaza is a documentary that presents some of the Israeli occupation measurements against Palestinians, and a profile of the struggle of Palestinian people in the Gaza strip after the 1967 invasion.



Sun 24 November, 4.30pm
A Fidai Film
Investigating the looting of Palestinian films which took place in Beirut in 1982, the film uses this event as a premise in order to make visible materials hidden in Israeli archives, and proposes a counter-narrative of a continuous history of appropriation.