Pleasure Dome is proud to serve as a Community Partner for the 2026 iteration of Queer Cinema for Palestine (QCP), hosted by the Toronto Queer Film Festival (TQFF). Featuring new work by John Greyson, Mama Ganuush, Teodor Vladár, Dua Omari, Huss AC, and R.R. This is a low barrier event with pay what you can and free options. Proceeds from tickets will go towards alQaws for Sexual & Gender Diversity in Palestinian Society who were foundational in establishing critiques of pinkwashing.
Part of Spring 2026
Pleasure Dome is proud to serve as a Community Partner for the 2026 iteration of Queer Cinema for Palestine (QCP), hosted by the Toronto Queer Film Festival (TQFF).
This is a low barrier event with pay what you can and free options.
Proceeds from tickets will go towards alQaws for Sexual & Gender Diversity in Palestinian Society who were foundational in establishing critiques of pinkwashing.
When: Sunday, June 7th at 7:00pm (Doors open at 6:30pm)
Where: Paradise Theatre, 1006c Bloor St W, Toronto
Programme:
Mama Ganuush, A Message, 2026, 2:51 (Palestine)
Teodor Vladár, Ceasefire, 2025, 23:00 (Slovakia & Hungary)
Dua Omari, The 5-Year Plan for Financial Independence, 2025, 7:00 (Palestine)
Huss AC, Until We Return, 2025, 11:00 (Egypt & Scotland)
R.R., We Will Haunt Your Archive, 2026, 10:00 (United States)
John Greyson, Sorry, 2024, 7:00 (Canada)
Doors will open at 6:30pm with the program beginning 7pm, following a collective action to highlight the global scope of the project and queer opposition to apartheid and genocide.
Before and after the screening we will have a community table with flyers about the organizing work of our co-presenters and Queers for Palestine will sell hankies, created for the second edition of their “Flag Your Solidarity” project, with funds being directed toward GoFundMes of families in Gaza as well as the Toronto Community Justice Fund.
A statement from the Toronto Queer Film Festival:
Queer Cinema for Palestine began as an alternative ethical space for filmmakers who pulled or refused to show their work in the Israeli government-sponsored TLVFest LGBTQ Film Festival. Over the past six years, hundreds of filmmakers have shown their solidarity in response to the boycott call from queer and trans Palestinians. As Israel continues its genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza, the West Bank, and across historic Palestine and throughout the region, we condemn this violence and the might-makes-right order, and stand in solidarity with Palestinians.
Israel continues to attempt to instrumentalize our identities as queer and trans people to justify its genocide against Palestinians, including murdering, blackmailing, and imprisoning queer and trans Palestinians. Accordingly, QCP will take place during June 2026, the month that marks Pride in many countries worldwide. We do so to continue our refusal of Israel’s pinkwashing. This year’s program focuses on the work of queer, Palestinian, and allied artists, across locales, in historic Palestine and the diaspora, identities, lengths, styles and genres to highlight art’s position in resistance and the struggle for liberation.
We are grateful for the support of our co-presenters Queers for Palestine, Meem Toronto, Toronto Palestine Film Festival, Palestine Research Cluster, No Pride in Policing Coalition, Mask Bloc TO, Vtape, CFMDC, OPIRG Toronto, Reel Asian, Whippersnapper Gallery, SURJ Toronto, and Pleasure Dome, and our community partners Cinema Politica, Images Festival, and re:assemblage collective.
We are also extremely grateful to Paradise Theatre for hosting us. Please feel free to purchase refreshments and snacks on your way into the screening. We are asking that participants mask in the theatre and when not eating or drinking. The space is wheelchair accessible with a bathroom on ground level. All films will have English subtitles. Please do not hesitate to get in touch with us if you have any concerns or access requests.
TQFF was founded in 2016 on the principle of deliberately rejecting the homonationalist consensus that has formed in and around major queer cultural institutions in Canada and internationally. Homonationalism refers to the facade of the promotion of LGBTQ rights by Western nations, and the parallel embrace of nationalist politics by LGBTQ individuals and organizations, to create a fiction of a homogenous, progressive LGBTQ friendly “us” (the west) and a regressive and intolerant “them” (the rest). As a festival, we reject this homonationalist agenda and believe in the liberation of all people.
