Athens Palestine Film Festival

In recent years, Onassis AiR spaces have become a meeting point within the festival’s parallel program, hosting screenings, discussions, voices, and images. This year, in collaboration with Onassis Culture, the Athens Palestine Film Festival presents at Onassis Stegi a series of screenings curated by the festival’s Director and Onassis AiR Fellow Carol Sansour together with her team.

With the phrase “Nothing comes from nothing” as its motto, the festival focuses on the traces of what came before that every story, image, narrative, and act carries: experiences, memories, and voices passed down from one generation to the next. Archives are approached as living spaces in which memory is preserved, questioned, and transformed, while the works explore what remains, what is forgotten, and how the stories we inherit continue to shape who we are today.

Over the course of the three-day program at Onassis Stegi, "A Sunken Tale of Losses Delayed" by Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind, "You Come from Far Away" by Amal Ramsis, and the closing film "Chronicle of a Disappearance" by Elia Suleiman will be screened at the Onassis Stegi Upper Stage.

Thursday, October 29

20:00–20:30 | Screening (#1) “A Sunken Tale of Losses Delayed,” 30 min (a film by Larissa Sansour/Søren Lind)

20:30–22:00 | Screening (#2) “You Come from Far Away,” 1h 24m (a film by Amal Ramsis)

22:00–22:45 | Discussion with director Amal Ramsis and daughter of protagonist Hend Najati Sidki, 45 min

Friday, October 30

19:30–20:00 | Screening (#1) “A Sunken Tale of Losses Delayed,” 30 min (a film by Larissa Sansour/Søren Lind)

20:00–21:30 | Screening (#2) “You Come from Far Away,” 1h 24m (a film by Amal Ramsis)

21:45–22:30 | Pirates, Museums & Other Colonial Fictions: Presentation by and discussion with artist, film director, and director of the Palestinian Museum, Amer Shomali

Saturday, October 31 – APFF 2026 Closing night

20:00–21:30 | Screening “Chronicle of a Disappearance,” 1h 28m (a film by Elia Suleiman)

21:30–22:30 | Closing performance (Carol Sansour & Kalogerakis brothers)

22:30–23:30 | Closing Party of the Athens Palestine Film Festival at the ground-floor foyer of Onassis Stegi and a DJ set by UROK

On Friday, October 30, artist, filmmaker, and director of the Palestinian Museum Amer Shomali examines how museums, collections, and colonial narratives shape our understanding of ownership, cultural heritage, and identity. Through a presentation and discussion, audiences are invited to rethink who has the authority to claim, preserve, interpret, and return cultural heritage.

Drawing on examples of claimed and displaced objects, Shomali reflects on the politics of collecting and exhibiting, and on museums’ role in either reproducing or challenging colonial fictions.

A musical encounter between Palestinian poetic tradition and contemporary Greek songwriting.

On Saturday, October 31, the festival closes with a performance that brings Palestinian poet Carol Sansour and the Kalogeraki Brothers together on stage, marking their second collaboration with the Onassis Foundation. A musical encounter that breathes new life into Sansour’s poetry through Greek translations by Natassa Sideri and original music and vocals by Michalis and Pantelis Kalogerakis.

Building on their first encounter, at the Onassis AiR Summer Open Days 2025, this collaboration goes deeper into the space between poetry and music, language and belonging, memory and place. Sansour’s intimate and charged poems, moving through homeland, displacement, love, and everyday life, are transformed into a live musical experience, where words cross from Arabic into Greek and into voice.

A performance about translation not simply as language, but as an act of connection, transformation, and shared listening.