The Palestine Comedy Club

Palestine Comedy Club is a warm, funny and deeply human portrait of six Palestinian comedians using stand-up as a form of cultural resistance. It introduces audiences to joy, resilience and everyday humour rather than headlines.

This screening will be a special event with guest participation, including Irish comedians and potentially some of the cast from the film, creating space for conversation and shared experience.

This theatre collective, founded by Alaa Shehada from Jenin in the north of the West Bank, and Sam Beale from the UK, is all about laughter. They are exploring the nature of comedy and standup as a response to being a Palestinian now. This documentary follows the group as they attempt to put together a national tour, with shows in Ramallah, Nablus, Haifa, Nazareth and Jerusalem. In so doing, they encounter the basic problem of struggling through roadblocks, and sheer dismay and horror at the wholesale destruction of the war between Israel and Hamas.

After a successful UK release across 25 cities, we’re very excited to be expanding into Ireland and Northern Ireland.