Photo Booth

All profits from this screening of PHOTO BOOTH will be donated to Medical Aid for Palestinians.

The screening will be followed by a conversation featuring special guests:

Amir Abu Alrob, a queer Palestinian artist, actor, and collaborative theatre maker living in Dublin

Aoife Kilbane, organiser with UCD BDS, and a Politics, Philosophy & Economics student specialising in homonationalism and Israeli Apartheid.

Plus speakers from Queers for Palestine, including panel host Caroline Earley, lecturer, and Trustee of GAZE Film Festival.

With sincere thanks to Light House Cinema and the GAZE Team for supporting this event.

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Recounting fifteen years of passionate activism in Toronto and worldwide, Photo Booth juxtaposes a surreal operatic narrative with documentary scenes that explore LGBT Pride and pink-washing, gay soldiers and homo-nationalism, Queers Against Israeli Apartheid, and the accelerating weaponisation of anti- Semitism. Outraged by the latest bombing of Gaza, Palestinian queer activists Hamza and Walid recruit queer novelist Jean Genet to help them sabotage the Eurovision song contest in Jericho. 

The emergence of queer BDS (boycott, divestment, sanctions) as a dynamic Palestinian-led global movement is brought to vivid life through interviews and actions, opera and agitprop, protests and pranks. Queer activists Ghadir Shafie, Judith Butler, Ali Abunimah, and others recount the victories and set-backs of this emerging social justice movement. 

Dir John Greyson Canada/ 2022 

Writer: John Greyson 

Producers: Anneli Ekborn 

1hr 53m 

Sultana’s Reign Pre feature short 

A Palestinian drag queen reflects on her journey from the Middle East to New York, Sultana discusses the challenges of performing drag in conservative societies, her nostalgia for Egyptian cinema icons, and her struggle for self-expression. 

Hadi Moussally / France / 2023 / 10m 

Writer: Hadi Moussally 

Producer: h7o7Studio