The 2013 Festival took place at the Barbican Cinema, SOAS, and UCL venues. Festival patron Karma Nabulsi opened the Festival at the Barbican on April 20th, with a sold out screening of David Koff's rarelyseen 1981 masterwork, Occupied Palestine. With some 38 films screening over two weeks, the 2013 programme also included the UK's first international conference on Palestine and the Moving Image, convened in association with the Centre for Palestine Studies at SOAS on May 11.