TOPalestineFilmFestival

Cinema, art, music & culture from #Palestine to #Toronto.📽️

Save the date our 19th Festival running Sept 30-Oct 9, 2026!

[TOPalestineFilmFestival @TPFF]

Join us for the Toronto Palestine Film Festival’s annual Nakba Commemoration event: Palestine from Nakba to Genocide with @MouinRabbani.

🗓️ Date: Friday, May 15, 2026
🕕 Time: 6:00 PM
📍 Location: OISE Auditorium , 252 Bloor St W.

Register: https://t.co/p75V7ryGU3

[Variety @Variety]

Javier Bardem says in #Cannes that genocide being committed in Gaza "is a fact."

"You can fight against, you can try to justify it... it is a fact. If you justify it with your silence or your support, you are pro-genocide. Those are facts for me."

https://t.co/8PctbmMzM3

[Variety @Variety]

#Cannes jury member Paul Laverty says "shame on Hollywood" for blacklisting actors like Susan Sarandon for opposing the war in Gaza.

“Cannes has a wonderful poster [of 'Thelma and Louise']. Isn’t it fascinating to see some of them like Susan Sarandon, Javier Bardem and Mark Ruffalo blacklisted because of their views in opposing the murder of women and children in Gaza? Shame on Hollywood people who do that. My respect and total solidarity to them. They’re the best of us, I look up to them."

[Variety @Variety]

Hannah Einbinder says Hollywood not speaking out in support of Palestine "pisses me off" and they "need these issues to affect a white person for them" to care.

“I look at these people who have absolutely every privilege imaginable to mankind and they cannot utter a single word. I really can’t understand it... People in Hollywood, unfortunately, need these issues to affect a white person for them to see it as relating to them,” she noted. “Like, they see Jimmy Kimmel getting taken off the air suddenly, they see Stephen Colbert’s show being canceled by CBS, which is owned by the Ellisons, and they go, ‘How could this possibly happen?’ And it’s like, we know how because we saw students and professors and journalists and authors and Palestinian folks be silenced and fired and expelled and imprisoned… it took it happening to these white men for people to be like, ‘Oh my god.’”
https://t.co/GE0Ey2iOgm

[TOPalestineFilmFestival @TPFF]

This Friday! TPFF's #Nakba Commemoration event with @MouinRabbani. RSVP: https://t.co/GWvPzCO20c

[Arab Canadian Lawyers Assoc. @CanArabLaw]

This Friday!

[TOPalestineFilmFestival @TPFF]

1 week away from TPFF's Annual #Nakba commemoration event with political analyst @MouinRabbani - RSVP using the link below and join us!

[TOPalestineFilmFestival @TPFF]

1 week away from TPFF's Annual #Nakba commemoration event with political analyst @MouinRabbani - RSVP using the link below and join us!

[TOPalestineFilmFestival @TPFF]

Join us for the Toronto Palestine Film Festival’s annual Nakba Commemoration event: Palestine from Nakba to Genocide with @MouinRabbani.

🗓️ Date: Friday, May 15, 2026
🕕 Time: 6:00 PM
📍 Location: OISE Auditorium , 252 Bloor St W.

Register: https://t.co/p75V7ryGU3

[Variety @Variety]

Melissa Barrera is starting a production company and wants to work with "anyone pro-Palestine."

"I kept track of the people who vocally came out and said something to defend me at the time. Susan Sarandon. Tatiana Maslany. Hannah Einbinder. Poppy Liu. Obviously, Javier Bardem would be a dream to work with. He doesn’t need me to give him any opportunities. But yes, I have lists. I do believe in building a network of people who are like-minded. And for me, this is Chapter 2."

https://t.co/NOqWiDrXt5

[mohammed hussein~Gaza 🇵🇸 @mohammedIhysse]

I wrote this book under bombardment, under the feeling of death and the end, inside a tent that would glow yellow at night from the intensity of the shelling. I wrote it while my stomach cried from hunger during the Gaza war.

I wrote it day after day, documenting the details of what we were living through, so that this book would stand as a witness to the genocide we are facing in Gaza.

I am sorry if these words hurt your heart or make you cry, but I swear to you that I documented the truth of what we were living through here 💔

For anyone who would like to read it, here is the link: https://t.co/nmHvUFBWRm

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Here are the photos that won the @nytimesphoto Gaza photographer Saher Alghorra a 2026 @PulitzerPrizes -- taken under impossible, dangerous conditions even as he lacked supplies and even food. The world is in his debt for chronicling conditions in Gaza. https://t.co/TDp2x3vkOE

[عاتيق 𓂆 @qudratiKath]

dear palestinian cinema admirers, i recently discovered a google spreadsheet compiling the list of palestinian cinema index on letterboxd. The spreadsheet has downloadable links to over 700 docs and films.

Kindly, retweet and spread the word!

https://t.co/mihqpeg7gQ

[WearThePeace @WearThePeaceCo]

Today, May 3rd, is World Press Freedom Day. The occupation has killed 363 journalists across Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Iran, Yemen, and Syria in the 940 days since October 7, 2023.

[AJ+ @ajplus]

“It’s the only place where displaced people here in the tents can go to sit and read.”

This Palestinian pharmacist and his friend rescued thousands of books to create the first new library in Gaza since Israel’s genocide: the Phoenix Library.

[TOPalestineFilmFestival @TPFF]

Join us for the Toronto Palestine Film Festival’s annual Nakba Commemoration event: Palestine from Nakba to Genocide with @MouinRabbani.

🗓️ Date: Friday, May 15, 2026
🕕 Time: 6:00 PM
📍 Location: OISE Auditorium , 252 Bloor St W.

Register: https://t.co/p75V7ryGU3

[PACBI - BDS movement @PACBI]

In response to growing demand from film workers, as well as BDS activists globally, the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) lays out below how BDS guidelines apply to complicit Israeli films and TV productions. 🧵

[Robyn Maynard @policingblack]

Toronto: What we’re seeing now is that (police) are not even distinguishing between protests, academic events or cultural events. Any time there are Palestinians speaking about Palestine, they are viewed as potentially anti-semitic or promoting violence.” https://t.co/xocnDsrXnn

[Barry Hertz @HertzBarry]

Well this is decidedly disturbing https://t.co/z4R3UxBbO8

[Phoenix Library | مكتبة العنقاء @phoenixlibrary1]

On Tuesday, we open the doors to the first library established amidst the genocide in Gaza. 📚

Thank you all for your support.❤️

[Richie Assaly @rdassaly]

On April 4, TPS entered the lobby of Comedy Bar moments before the start of a fundraising event for Gaza.

That same night, cops entered a theatre at TIFF Lightbox midway through a screening of 'Palestine 36.'

Dug into this growing trend for @TheGrindTO.
https://t.co/a2M6JY1FUS