Join us to celebrate 25 years of the Chicago Palestine Film Festival! An evening of dinner, music, and live performances.

More information about additional guests coming soon!

Guests and Performances:

Farah Nabulsi

Farah Nabulsi is an Academy Award-nominated and BAFTA-winning Palestinian-British filmmaker. She has been writing and producing fiction narrative films since 2016. Her first short film, Today They Took My Son, was endorsed by British director Ken Loach and screened at the United Nations.

Farah has been invited to serve as a jury member at numerous film festivals. She is also a voting member of both the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).

Ronnie Malley

Ronnie Malley is a multi-instrumentalist musician on oud, guitar, keyboards, and percussion, a theatrical performer, producer, and educator. He has collaborated with international artists, composed and consulted for many cultural music projects in film and theater, appeared as a guest artist on several works, and is executive director of Intercultural Music Production in Chicago.

Thawra Dabke

Chicago’s first Palestinian women’s dabkeh group.

Chicago Dabke

Preserving Levantine culture through professional dabkeh.

Additional guests include the Sumoud Collective and the Palestinian Youth Ensemble.

For Gala Sponsorship Opportunities, contact Executive Director Nina Shoman-Dajani (nina@palestinefilmfest.com)