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 Film Festival for the Rest of Us

As members of queer communities we are creating Outside the Frame, a film festival that challenges Frameline’s complicity with Israeli apartheid. This festival will feature the work of filmmakers who have withdrawn their work from Frameline or did not submit because of Frameline’s continued partnership with the Israeli government. OTF will include films from others who believe in, and whose work supports, LGBTQI visual culture’s role in the anti-imperial struggle.

Outside the Frame goes back to the roots of queer liberation and re-imagines futures for radical social change. Outside the Frame is anti-capitalist and refuses to take governmental or corporate grants.

Liberation Not Assimilation

Outside the Frame calls on all queers to join in questioning what has become the dominant narrative of assimilation rather than liberation. Part of that narrative is that Israel is a “friend” of queers simply because it gives money to a queer cultural event, or supports the production of a queer film that will be used as propaganda for Israel. As queer activists for social justice, including Palestinian liberation, we recognize that Israel is attempting to co-opt the queer struggle for liberation while the Israeli government continues to kill, exclude and deny rights to Palestinians, including Queer Palestinians. This is pinkwashing, and Frameline must stop participating in it. Instead, Frameline must publicly commit to honor the Cultural and Academic boycott called by the Palestinian people in 2005 and sever their ties with the Israeli government until such time as the Palestinian people call off the boycott.

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