A State of Passion

The Film Festival aims to shine a light on Palestine - its people, history, culture and society - through showing compelling and thought-provoking films and arranging other events in and around Leeds.

Leeds Palestinian Film Festival

After bearing witness to the horrors of an ongoing genocide, a war surgeon emerges from Gaza calling for justice and accountability

St Chad’s Parish Centre

Join us to see this extraordinary film brought to you by Leeds Palestinian Film Festival and West Yorkshire Health Workers for Palestine.After 43 horrific days working round the clock under constant bombardment in the emergency rooms of Gaza’s Al Shifa and Al Ahli hospitals, British-Palestinian reconstructive surgeon, Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah, emerged to find himself as a face of Palestinian resistance.This was Ghassan’s sixth and most horrific Gaza “war”. Why does he do it? Where does he find the strength to face it again and again? How does it impact his family? How do they process the risks he takes? .Filmmakers Carol Mansour and Muna Khalidi, close friends of the Abu Sittahs, share that same passion. Following him to Beirut, Amman, London, Kuwait and Dubai, they capture his raw emotion on return from Gaza.Following the film, there will be speakers offering their perspectives and experiences and a chance to ask questions.