This is no ordinary film festival either. In fact, the Haifa Independent film festival is the first Palestinian film festival held in Israel.
"We [Palestinians living in Israel] had always been consumers of Israeli entertainment, and we did not have the means to express ourselves," Ayed Fadel, one of the organizers of the film festival tells the Palestine Monitor.
"We are boycotting the Haifa international film festival, and we are making our own film festival here," Ayed adds.
