In the second of this year’s dialogue sessions, we welcome filmmakers Carol Mansour and Muna Khalidi for a conversation with artisan and entrepreneur Belinda Idriss on embroidery, textile tradition, and embodied knowledge transmission. Carol, Muna, and Belinda will be joined in conversation by curator and researcher Amal Alhaag.

This session follows a Thursday night screening of Mansour’s 2017 film Stitching Palestine, and is part of a tatreez trajectory within the festival programme, which highlights the importance of this cultural tradition as one of the virtual threads materially connecting Palestinian life in Palestine and across the Diaspora. Alongside the screening and dialogue session, festival audiences can also join for a Sunday afternoon hands-on workshop.

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.