Movies: Palestine

Guy Hircefeld, a veteran who served in the Israeli military at the start of its occupation of Palestine in the 1980s, now fights against the Israeli occupation. His only weapon is a camera....

“Palestine Vaincra (Palestine Will Win)" is regarded as the first French documentary film made in support of the Palestinian liberation movement. Shot in 1969 by Jean-Pierre OLIVIER de SARDAN in a student dorm, the film blends historical testimonies ...

In 2020, just as the pandemic was beginning, Gazala purchased land in western Ohio, on which sits a disused school building. This site allowed her to explore her complex relationship with “the land.” As the daughter of displaced indigenous Palestinia...

In a country that has been occupied for decades, a couple of puppeteers continue to bring a little joy from village to village. The children laugh, perhaps still unaware of the gravity of the situation. The central section is devoted to a visit to th...

Unspoken or إحكِ is about Palestinian spoken word poet Farah Chamma who, at the age of 17, became an online sensation after her poems went viral. Today, Farah finds her poetry at odds with the world she lives in. The film shows her conflict as she st...

For decades, a gross injustice has been perpetuated against an entire people. Through consumption of news media, we think we understand what they are going through. But we have no idea....

A documentary by Dror Dayan and Susann Witt-Stahl, Germany 2021...

In 2021, the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood was attacked. The war lasted for 11 days, during which all forms of weapons were used. This left many victims, along with a great loss of buildings and infrastructure. But, maybe more importantly, it created de...

Shuja’iyah: Land of the Brave represents one filmmaker’s personal reflection on the meaning of “crimes against humanity” in the context of Israel’s ‘Operation Protective Edge’ waged in the Gaza Strip in 2014, using footage of her family filmed in the...

Recently I had a dream... I dreamt that I was a martyr....

Jawaher was a farmer with her father when she was young, and a beekeeper in old age. Beekeeping to her is a way to overcome life's difficulties. Despite the difficulties she's facing; the economic situation, climate change, and wars, she's still stic...

Israeli director Natalie Assouline chronicles the lives of women, mostly young mothers, in prison for involvement in failed suicide attacks/terrorists attacks in Israel. Filmed over two years, this portrait strives to unearth the motivations behind ...

The Pipe explores the concept of imprisonment, and what it really means to take away someone's freedom. It's an experience of solitary prison that goes beyond the walls of a cell, for a prisoner is not always the one confined by walls....

Rule of Stone is a documentary film that exposes the power of architecture and the role it has played – aesthetically, ideologically and strategically – in the creation of modern Jerusalem after the 1967 war....

Interviews with Palestinians living in Lebanese refugee camps, some of it shot in Sabra and Shatila before the massacre....

American-born teen, Rima the Lost One, unites with her great-grandmother, also named Rima, on a time-travel journey to 1930s Palestine. After clashing with her modern-ish Mom on vacation, Rima the Lost One finds herself warped through a portal that t...

A Palestinian activist's fight for freedom draws a Japanese American filmmaker into confrontation with detention regimes of past and present....

A self-described liberal from cosmopolitan Tel Aviv, Zaki wanted to get behind the politics of Israel’s controversial settlements in the occupied territories — so she moved there, temporarily, setting up an improvised cafe where she could chat with s...

Scenes from a production of The Diary of Anne Frank are combined with footage of young Palestinians talking candidly about war, first love and topics that Frank wrote about as a teenager....

Wild Flowers Plants of Palestine follows journeys of observational tours solicited by the Palestinian Museum and conducted by two professors from Birzeit University to collect photos of and information on the Palestinian Flora. The title is adapted f...