London Palestine Film Festival (LPFF) presents its 2024 edition with a selection of recently released titles alongside favorites from throughout the years. We aim 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. Visual artist, Inas Halabi’s We No Longer Prefer Mountains, gives insight into the complex social position of minority Druze in occupied Palestine. Finally, 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
We No Longer Prefer Mountains + Q&A
An exploration of the social and political conditions of the Druze community in northern occupied Palestine since 1948. We No Longer Prefer Mountains examines the religious minority, which takes the environment as a metaphor for the group's fraught and complicated social position.



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.