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PREVIOUS EVENTS

Since its first edition, PIFF has taken shape through festival editions, screenings, and collaborations across Cyprus and Greece. The events below reflect the festival’s collective practice and ongoing commitment to Palestinian cinema, cultural presence, and shared spaces for dialogue.

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Poster of the Palestinian Independent Film Festival edition

PIFF 2nd Edition - Lemesos & Crete

The second edition of PIFF took place simultaneously in Limassol and Crete, continuing the festival’s decentralized and collective model. Screenings and discussions unfolded across locations, creating shared cultural moments rooted in Palestinian cinema, solidarity, and presence.

13 - 15 June 2025

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PIFF 1st Edition - Agios Nikolaos, Crete

The first PIFF edition in Crete marked the festival’s initial expansion beyond Cyprus. Organized through collaboration with local cultural initiatives, the edition introduced Palestinian cinema into a new local context shaped by dialogue and collective organizing.

5 - 7 July 2024

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Palestinian Independent Film Festival Opening Night Limassol Cyprus

PIFF 1st Edition - Lemesos, Cyprus

The first edition of PIFF took place in Limassol, marking the moment the festival was articulated as a collective cultural practice. Built through collaboration, care, and shared responsibility, this edition laid the foundations for PIFF’s values and future editions.

15 - 22 February 2024

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Collaborative Screenings & Events

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  • Palestinian Cinema Days Around the World

    Palestinian Cinema Days Around the World

    2 November 2025

    PIFF joined the ‘Palestinian Cinema Days’, a global cultural protest initiated by FilmLab Palestine, transforming cinema into a collective act of resistance and solidarity. Screenings took place in Limassol (CY) and in Chania and Agios Nikolaus (CRETE, GR), on the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, alongside hundreds of parallel events worldwide.

    The programme featured When I Saw You by Annemarie Jacir, presented through collaborations with local cultural initiatives across Cyprus and Crete, including the Limassol Cinema Club, the Lab for Animation Research CUT, the Chania Cultural Center, Catis Studio, and the Anti-Racist Festival of Agios Nikolaos.

    Through these simultaneous screenings, PIFF joined a worldwide network reclaiming Palestinian images and narratives, affirming cinema as a space for presence, memory, and collective resistance.

  • PIFF Screening of THE TOWER

    Screening of 'The Tower'

    9 December 2025 · Tersefanou (Larnaca District)

    As part of the TELL ME (I7KEELI) series, PIFF Lemesos collaborated with United for Palestine – Larnaca on the screening of The Tower (dir. Mats Grorud), an animated film exploring intergenerational memory and life in a Palestinian refugee camp. The screening was followed by an open discussion with the audience. The event was supported by ISSA Construction & Development.

  • PIFF Poetry reading

    Limassol International Documentary Film Festival

    1 August 2025 · Limassol


    In collaboration with the International Documentary Film Festival of Limassol, PIFF took part in the festival’s opening night, which centered Palestine for the second consecutive year. The screening of Coexistence, My Ass! was accompanied by a poetry reading featuring texts by Palestinian poets Rafeef Ziadah and Mosab Abu Toha, read in Cypriot by Belinda Papavasiliou and Marios pavlou as a gesture of shared memory, resistance, and transnational solidarity.

  • PIFF film festival Cyprus

    Palestine on Screen

    June–July 2024

    PIFF supported an initiative ‘Palestine on Screen’ by Genocide Free Cyprus (GFC) by providing Palestinian films for a series of screenings across multiple cities in Cyprus, focusing on the Palestinian struggle.

  • Screening of Farha PIFF

    Screening of Farha

    13 May 2024

    In collaboration with United for Palestine – Larnaca. The screening of Farha by Darin J. Sallam marked the anniversary of the 1948 dispossession of Palestinians (15th May). The screening created a space for remembrance and reflection, connecting historical rupture with lived experience through Palestinian cinema.

  • PIFF events and film screenings. A poster featuring 'Foragers' by Jumana Manna, scheduled for Saturday, March 30th at 9:00 PM at Santa Marina Hall, Tersefanou, Larnaca.

    Screening of The Foragers at Land Day PIFF CYPRUS

    30 March 2024 · Land Day


    In collaboration with United for Palestine – Larnaca.