The Shashat Women’s Film Festival

The Shashat Women's Film Festival in Palestine is the Arab world's only ongoing yearly women's film festival. Shashat, which means "screens" in Arabic, hosted its debut festival in 2005 and is now in its seventh year as part of the project "I am a Woman from Palestine."

In collaboration with nine Palestinian colleges and other cultural and community centers, the festival travels throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It honors Palestinian, Arab, and international women's films while exploring the social and cultural ramifications of women's portrayals. The festival includes screenings, debates, panels, workshops, and the Arabic subtitling of chosen films.

The festival's seventh edition focuses on Palestinian women filmmakers and includes the following components: a three-month intensive training/production workshop in Gaza that resulted in six films by young Gazan women filmmakers; four productions by established women filmmakers; 85 screenings/discussions in 13 Palestinian cities followed by social consultancies; and six specially produced TV programmers.

The European Union, the Heinrich Boll Foundation, the Goteborg Film Fund, and the Ford Foundation are all contributing to the seventh edition of the festival.

Date: July
Location: Palestine