The Centre Film Festival is a week-long celebration of film and conversation connecting local voices with global ones through media arts, workshops and masterclasses. The Centre Film Festival brings multigenerational stories to the screen.

Schedule Of Events

6:30 Pm - Tattooed4life at The State Theater

Liraz, a survivor of the NOVA party massacre in Israel, wields her tattoo needle as a weapon against pain. Each inked line becomes a thread of healing, stitching together the woundsleft by that fateful October 7th. Through her art, she finds solace and helps others find theirs.

6:30 Pm - Bye Bye Tiberias at The State Theater

In her early twenties, Hiam Abbass left her native Palestinian village to follow her dream of becoming an actress in Europe, leaving behind her mother, grandmother, and seven sisters. Thirty years later, her filmmaker daughter Lina returns with her to the village and questions for the first time her mother’s bold choices, her chosen exile and the way the women in their family influenced both their lives.