This double bill explores Palestinian resilience: from daily resistance under occupation to a family’s return to their ancestral home, showing how their bond with the land nurtures heritage and ensures survival of all life on its soil.

‘48: Resisting the Big Settlement
Greece, 2025, Team 218, 78’
Filmed in the occupied West Bank in 2022, 48: Resisting the Big Settlement documents the everyday realities of Palestinians living under Israeli occupation. Through interviews with men, women and children in Nabi Saleh, Hebron, Jenin, and Sheikh Jarrah, the film captures stories of land seizures, bans on free movement, checkpoints, imprisonment and killings of their loved ones. What emerges is a collective narrative of Palestinian resistance as a daily, lived practice of survival and defiance.

Where the Wind Blows
Palestine, 2024, Hana Elias, 18'
After 50 years in New York, Nassib Elias returns to his Palestinian hometown of Shefa-’Amr to revive his ancestral garden. Filmmaker Hana Elias intimately captures her family’s search for belonging as they restore the land and tend the garden using traditional agricultural methods during their first olive harvest. Over one seasonal cycle, Where the Wind Blows uncovers the nuanced social ties that bind the family to the land, showing how this connection sustains both their heritage and the survival of all living things intertwined with the soil.

About the festival:

London Palestine Film Festival (LPFF) presents its 2025 edition showcasing some of this year’s most anticipated new releases reflecting on Palestine. LPFF aims to present stories of political realities as experienced by Palestinians at home and in the diaspora through the creative lens of cinema.
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