The 2024 Festival runs from November 8th until December 6th and will include seventeen screenings and events. The programme opens with No Other Land as part of the Leeds International Film Festival. This was a rare collaboration between an Israeli and a Palestinian and records the continued assault by the occupation forces on a Palestinian village. The documentary was subjected to anti-Palestinian [i.e. anti-Semitic] abuse following a presentation at the Berlinale.

The programme also includes The Teacher, which has been reviewed here by Roy.

There is also a strand in the Festival dedicated to the Film Heritage of the Palestinians. The Hyde Park Picture house is screening a 16mm print of Wedding in Galilee. Directed by Michel Khleifi, this was filmed in Galilee and is the earliest feature made in occupied Palestine by a Palestinian. Set before the Zionist occupation was expanded in the 1967 war. The drama is set during a wedding of the son of a village leader. This traditional Palestinian ceremony becomes the site for escalating conflict between the Palestinians and the forces of occupation.

There is a screening of three short Palestinian films from the earlier period. The Bride and The Dowry (1983): The Way to Palestine (1985): Jerusalem: the Flower of All Cities (1969). And there are contemporary features and documentaries and cultural events. This is both a celebration of Palestinian culture and a protest against the ongoing genocide.