This year’s series of dialogue sessions opens with a conversation between novelist, poet and playwright Ahmed Masoud and visual artist Isshaq Albarbary (joining online), which explores connections across literature, theater, cinema, and the visual arts. Starting from Ahmed's questions, "Where is cultural resistance now? Where was it before?", the discussion offers a reassessment of the terms of artistic and cultural resistance today, placing renewed emphasis on the importance of imagination in representing pasts, presents and futures. Ahmed and Isshaq will be joined in conversation by festival house moderator Yara Yuri Safadi.

Following his presentation on Friday, Ahmed will be giving a Sunday workshop where festival audiences are invited to join him for a how-to course on crafting acts of creative resistance.

The Dialogue Sessions are a series of conversations taking place throughout the festival, which invite two cultural producers to share short presentations on their practices followed by an extended conversation between them.

Virtual Remains marks the Palestinian Film Festival Amsterdam’s 10-year anniversary, with Gaza as its central focus. Unfolding over four days, the rich schedule of screenings features over twenty-five films by Palestinian directors with special introductions and post-screening discussions. Alongside it, four workshops, five dialogue sessions, a special culinary storytelling keynote and the ever popular olive oil tasting make up PFFA’s largest parallel event programme to date, exploring topics from creative resistance and intergenerational memory, to film pedagogy and embodied transmission. See the full programme at thepffa.nl.