Palestine Cinema Days @ McMurtry & Harmony House (Day 1)

Join us for “Palestine Cinema Days Around the World” at Stanford University on November 2 and 3. Palestine Cinema Days is an annual international film festival established in 2014 by Filmlab Palestine. The fourth global edition launches on November 2, 2026, hosting over 1,000 screenings internationally. We will extend our screenings into November 3, Democracy Day at Stanford. 

This year, we will screen four recent feature films in McMurtry Building (Room 115), and a series of short films at the Harmony House. Through a mix of documentary and fiction, these films capture the remarkable diversity of Palestinian life in Gaza, the Galilee, Golan Heights, Jerusalem, and in diaspora. Each screening will be followed by a discussion with the film’s director or with a scholar to explore how food, play, friendship, and memory-keeping become acts of resistance and survivance. 

Join us for some or all the films, and participate in a global movement to center Palestinian stories.
 

Full schedule below: 

Monday, November 2nd

• At McMurtry 115
  • 5 PM - 7 PM, Film: Foragers + discussion with Dr. Sahera Bleibleh
  • 7 - 7:30 PM, Dinner 
  • 7:30 - 9:15 PM, Film: To a Land Unknown + Discussion with  Dr. Suleiman Hodali 

 

Tuesday, November 3 (Democracy Day)

• At McMurtry 115 
  • 11 AM - 1 PM, Film: Yalla Parkour + Discussion with  filmmaker Areeb Zuaiter, and Gazan parkour athlete, Ahmed Matar
  • 1:30 - 3:15 PM, Film: With Hasan in Gaza + Discussion with  Dr. Usha Iyer
• At Harmony House, 561 Lomita Drive
  • 11 AM - 5 PM, looping short film program* + print-making: Gazawyat: Fidaa (11 min,) Gazawyat: Noor (7 min,) Gazawyat: Hadeel (6 min,) Gazawyat: Maha (4 min)
  • *Films are a part of Gazawyat, a series of  short documentaries produced by Filmlab Palestine

 

Sponsored by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP,) Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine (FSJP,) and the Institute for Diversity in the Arts (IDA)