The Nordic Palestinian Film Festival Comes to Växjö

This Autumn, LNUC Concurrences collaborated with the Nordic Palestinian Film Festival (NPFF) to bring the festival to Växjö for the first time. On Saturday 8 November 2025, Folkets Bio Palladium screened a full day of Palestinian films, including feature-length documentaries such as To My Father (Salam Shahada) and A State of Passion (Carol mansour and Muna Mhalidi), short fiction films such as An Orange from Jaffa (Mohammed Almughanni), and short documentaries such as Maria (Abdekhakim Majed Abudaqen). The festival was opened by LNUC Concurrences director Liv Nilsson Stutz, and a group of LNU PhD students and staff -- Felicia Stenberg, Martin van der Linden, Concurrences member Elliott Berggren, and Concurrences administrator Jannike Jonasson -- kept things running smoothly throughout the day.

In addition to the screenings at Palladium, the festival included a seminar, organised in collaboration with Det Fria Ordets Hus, and titled 'Storytelling, Memory and Resistance in Palestine'. The event featured a conversation between NPFF director Wafá Jamil and journalist, publisher and poet Bisan Edwan, and was moderated by LNUC Concurrences member Rebecca Duncan. In this discussion Wafá and Bisan reflected on how different creative and documentary media provide different possibilities for remembering Palestinian histories and subverting or interrogating dominant narrative of Palestine.

LNUC Concurrences looks forward to future collaborations that will bring issues central to colonial and postcolonial studies to both academic and wider audiences.