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Movie: Speed Sisters
2025-11-12 17:30 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | King County Library System – Renton, 100 Mill Ave S, Renton, WA, 98057, United States
11/12 – Speed Sisters — The first all-women racing team in Palestine.

Discover the stories that drive us.
Join us for a global journey through the world of cars, racing, and the people whose lives revolve around them. This documentary film series explores how automobiles represent freedom, identity, and resistance—from land speed records in the U.S. to grassroots racing in Havana and the West Bank.

UN Movie Society presents PALESTINE 36
2025-11-29 06:00 - 09:00 | Virtual
UN Movie Society presents global event featuring Palestine’s Oscar submission for best international feature film Palestine 36

VIRTUAL GLOBAL LAUNCH (LIVE & ON DEMAND): UNITED NATIONS
Saturday, 29 November 2025
International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
9:00am EST (New York Time)
UN Global YouTube: https://youtu.be/-3hhiNZnS6A
UN WebTV: https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1q/k1qkhezqeo

On the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, on Saturday, 29 November 2025, the UN Movie Society of the United Nations Staff Recreation Council – dedicated to advancing UN global causes through the transformative power of storytelling, will present an event featuring Palestine’s Oscar submission for Best International Feature Film – PALESTINE 36. The entire programme will be broadcasted live & on demand on the global channels of the United Nations – UN Web TV and UN YouTube.
PALESTINE 36 explores the Arab Revolt of 1936–1939 against British colonial rule. Directed by Annemarie Jacir, the film lays the historical groundwork for what followed in 1948 and beyond, making the events an urgent story to bring to the screen. This pivotal moment is essential for understanding the Palestinian question, which has been on the agenda of the United Nations for nearly eight decades. The film features an extraordinary international cast, including British Oscar-winner Jeremy Irons (Reversal of Fortune), Irish acclaimed Liam Cunningham (Game of Thrones), and Palestinian Emmy-nominated Hiam Abbass (Succession). PALESTINE 36 is Annemarie Jacir’s fourth consecutive film to be selected as Palestine’s Oscar submission for the Best International Feature Film.

Movie: Palestine 36
2025-11-29 16:15 - 18:30, 2025-12-01 17:15 - 19:30, 2025-12-02 17:15 - 19:30 | Magic Lantern Theater [Spokane], 25 W Main, Spokane, WA, 99201
Palestine’s Official Submission to the 98th Academy Awards. Official Selection of the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival. Coming to theaters in the US and Canada in 2026. A film by Annemarie Jacir Starring Hiam Abbass, Kamel Al Basha, Yasmine Al Massri, Jalal Altawil, Robert Aramayo, Saleh Bakri, Yafa Bakri, Karim Daoud Anaya, Wardi Eilabouni, Ward Helou, Billy Howle, Dhafer L’Abidine, with Liam Cunningham, and Jeremy Irons. In 1936, as the British Empire tightens its grip on Palestine, Yusuf is caught between his village home and his work in Jerusalem. Amidst an anti-colonial revolt, and Jewish refugees fleeing persecution from Europe, all sides converge in a decisive moment for the entire region. ———- Watermelon Pictures is a film production and distribution company rooted in creative resistance. Our mission is to champion unheard voices, inspire the world to stand up to injustice and imagine our way into a shared, liberated future.

Movie: Ali: Fear Eats The Soul
2025-11-29 16:30 - 18:30 | Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, 2, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
The wildly prolific German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder paid homage to his cinematic hero Douglas Sirk with this update of that filmmaker’s 1955 All That Heaven Allows. A lonely widow (Brigitte Mira) meets a much younger Arab worker (El Hedi ben Salem) in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise—and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies. In Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Fassbinder expertly wields the emotional power of classic Hollywood melodrama to expose the racial tensions underlying contemporary German culture.

Sat Nov 29: 4.30pm PDT, 7.30pm PDT

Sun Nov 30: 4.30pm PDT, 7.30pm PDT

Movie: Ali: Fear Eats The Soul
2025-11-29 19:30 - 21:00 | Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, 2, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
The wildly prolific German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder paid homage to his cinematic hero Douglas Sirk with this update of that filmmaker’s 1955 All That Heaven Allows. A lonely widow (Brigitte Mira) meets a much younger Arab worker (El Hedi ben Salem) in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise—and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies. In Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Fassbinder expertly wields the emotional power of classic Hollywood melodrama to expose the racial tensions underlying contemporary German culture.

Sat Nov 29: 7.30pm PDT

Sun Nov 30: 4.30pm PDT, 7.30pm PDT

Movie: Ali: Fear Eats The Soul
2025-11-30 16:30 - 18:00 | Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, 2, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
The wildly prolific German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder paid homage to his cinematic hero Douglas Sirk with this update of that filmmaker’s 1955 All That Heaven Allows. A lonely widow (Brigitte Mira) meets a much younger Arab worker (El Hedi ben Salem) in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise—and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies. In Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Fassbinder expertly wields the emotional power of classic Hollywood melodrama to expose the racial tensions underlying contemporary German culture.

Movie: Ali: Fear Eats The Soul
2025-11-30 19:30 - 21:00 | Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, 2, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
The wildly prolific German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder paid homage to his cinematic hero Douglas Sirk with this update of that filmmaker’s 1955 All That Heaven Allows. A lonely widow (Brigitte Mira) meets a much younger Arab worker (El Hedi ben Salem) in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise—and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies. In Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Fassbinder expertly wields the emotional power of classic Hollywood melodrama to expose the racial tensions underlying contemporary German culture.

Sun Nov 30: 4.30pm PDT, 7.30pm PDT

Virtual Movie Screenings: Every Saturday with Palestine Museum US
2025-12-06 09:00 - 11:00, 2025-12-13 09:00 - 11:00, 2025-12-20 09:00 - 11:00, 2025-12-27 09:00 - 11:00, 2026-01-03 09:00 - 11:00, 2026-01-10 09:00 - 11:00, 2026-01-17 09:00 - 11:00, 2026-01-24 09:00 - 11:00 | Virtual
Check website: https://www.palestinemuseum.us/events for current showings and for registration links!
Often the screening ends with a Q&A with the director!

Movie: The Encampments
2025-12-08 19:00 - 21:00 | Cherry Street Village, 720 25th Avenue, Seattle, WA, United States
THE ENCAMPMENTS follows student organizers at some of the world’s most prestigious universities as they take a historic stand against their institutions’ investments in the ongoing genocide in Gaza, igniting one of the largest student movements in history which continues to have far-reaching effects on US and world policies today.
Filmed on the ground and in real-time as these events were unfolding, THE ENCAMPMENTS features detained student activist Mahmoud Khalil and takes viewers inside America’s student uprising with incredible intimacy and urgency. Professors, whistleblowers from inside Ivy League administrations, and student activists shed light on a moment that captivated the nation’s attention and continues to make headlines today.
“What makes THE ENCAMPMENTS artistically triumphant is its sense of contemporary and historical detail, owed to both footage shot by the filmmakers, as well as by the protesters themselves. In the process, co-directors Kei Pritsker and Michael T. Workman craft a work of cinema that’s as rigorously journalistic in its arguments as it is nakedly sentimental.” – IndieWire
“This is more than a student protest—it’s a generational struggle for justice. Students have always led the charge for justice, from the sit-ins of the Civil Rights Movement to the campus protests against South African apartheid. The encampments that started at Columbia are part of that legacy, inspiring millions of people around the world. The film ensures the students in US and Gaza are heard, their actions are remembered, and the fight for Palestinian liberation continues.” – Macklemore
“Khalil remains detained at an ICE facility in Louisiana amid a legal battle to prevent his deportation from the U.S. after the Trump administration ordered his removal… The legal challenge to Khalil might ultimately come down to the Supreme Court, which would decide how far the secretary of state can determine whether a permanent resident can be removed for speech.” – Axios

AANM: Arab Film Series Online
2025-12-12 - 2025-12-21 | Virtual
Films available for ten days each month listed
Arab Film Series Online
Free Online Stream | Suggested $5 Donation – Register
The Arab American National Museum (AANM), Arab Film and Media Institute (AFMI), and ArteEast proudly present the Arab Film Series, a monthly curated online program of contemporary and classic films, followed by discussions with Arab, Arab American, and diasporic filmmakers, connecting a worldwide community through film, dialogue, and activism. More information about each film program can be found at arabfilmseries.org
Upcoming Dates

December 12-21

Screening: Resistance Climbing
2026-01-15 19:00 - 20:30 | Colchuck Consignment, 5653 Sunset Hwy, Cashmere, WA, 98815
Mark your calendars for January 15 — we’ll be cohosting a screening of “Resistance Climbing” at @colchuckconsignment — this is a 2023 film by @andrewbisharatabout climbing in Palestine.
We’ll be discussing the film and the importance of freedom of movement and expression through climbing and how a simple act of an occupied people accessing the great outdoors on a climb or a hike is something so threatening to colonizers and occupiers, they try to make it impossible.

Movie: All That's Left of You
2026-01-16 19:00 - 21:00, 2026-01-17 19:00 - 21:00, 2026-01-18 17:00 - 19:00, 2026-01-19 16:30 - 18:30, 2026-01-22 16:30 - 18:30 | The Beacon, 4405 Rainier Ave S, Seattle, WA, 98118, United States
A deeply moving, multigenerational drama, ALL THAT’S LEFT OF YOU follows a Palestinian teenager who gets swept into a protest in the Occupied West Bank and experiences a moment of violence that rocks his family. The film unfolds as his mother recounts the political and emotional threads that led to that fateful moment. Spanning seven decades, the film traces the hopes and heartaches of one uprooted family, bearing witness to the scars of dispossession and the enduring legacy of survival. Jordan’s Official Selection for the 98th Academy Awards.
“Cherien Dabis’ gut-punch film is a monument to resilience in the face of unimaginable intergenerational trauma. It honours the lives behind uncaring headlines in the West, detailing how love remains even in the darkest, forsaken places.” – Stephen A. Russell

Movie: All That's Left of You
2026-01-17 10:30 - 12:00, 2026-01-18 10:30 - 12:00 | SIFF Film Center, 305 Harrison St, Seattle, 98109
Screening location: SIFF Film Center – 167 Republican St, Seattle (located within the Seattle Center, just north of Climate Pledge Arena / east of KEXP and The Vera Project)

Shortlisted for the Academy Award for International Feature Film.
A deeply moving, multigenerational drama, ALL THAT’S LEFT OF YOU follows a Palestinian teenager who gets swept into a protest in the Occupied West Bank and experiences a moment of violence that rocks his family. The film unfolds as his mother recounts the political and emotional threads that led to that fateful moment. Spanning seven decades, the film traces the hopes and heartaches of one uprooted family, bearing witness to the scars of dispossession and the enduring legacy of survival. Jordan’s Official Selection for the 98th Academy Awards.
In Arabic with English subtitles.

Saturday, Jan 17, 2026, 10:30am
Sunday, Jan 18, 2026, 10:30am

Film: Gaza is Our Home
2026-01-22 18:30 - 21:00 | SIFF Film Center, 305 Harrison St, Seattle, 98109
Peyvand NPO, in collaboration with MELC, is doing a screening of Gaza Is Our Home at the Seattle Film Center on Jan. 22 at 6:30 PM. Gaza Is Our Home is a profoundly personal documentary that peels back the layers of devastation within the Gaza Strip, as witnessed through the lens of filmmaker Monear Shaer.

Shaer’s debut documentary was created out of agony as a timely, impactful, and tragic response to the collective anguish of all who call Gaza home. Monear Shaer will be with us at SIFF for a Q&A session after the film. Please buy your tickets and spread the word!

Movie: Gaza is Our Home
2026-01-26 19:00 - 20:30 | Woodland Park Presbyterian Church, 225 N 70th St, Seattle, WA, 98103
As a result of the media’s continued dehumanization of the beautiful people of Gaza, it soon became imperative that the true reality and first hand experience of life in my family’s homeland of Gaza was shown to the world.
Ultimately, “Gaza Is Our Home” stands as a testament to the humanity behind the over 33,362 innocent lives massacred since Oct 2023…

https://www.gazaisourhome.com/
