Palestinian Territories Movies

Documentary: memories of Palestinian citizens about their occupied homeland

Filmed in an unofficial Palestinian Bedouin camp established in 1948 on a stretch of beach north of Tyre, in South Lebanon, Terrace of the Sea uses a...

A stand-up comedian in Gaza borrows from the daily struggles of survival to bring solace to a wounded audience in a refugee camp.

Feeling confined in his small Palestinian town and close-knit community, Kamel, a young man, embarks on a journey to discover his personal freedom and...

Produced in 2004 by Al-Haq and directed by Hannah Musleh as part of Al-Haq's campaign to stop collective punishment practiced by Israeli occupying for...

This one-hour journalistic exploration by acclaimed documentary filmmaker Shelley Saywell takes the viewer beyond the headlines and into the daunting,...

A creative reimagination of the Israeli-Arab conflict through the lens of the classic Arabian Nights tales, with Scheherazade narrating a story where...

Iraqi writer and director Kassem Hawal’s 24 minute film Our Small Houses is one of the few surviving works made by the cinema group Hawal founded and...

October 28th, 2009, Samiulla's father was killed in a blast at Meena Bazaar in Peshawar, Pakistan. During the funeral, his uncle asked him not to be s...

Intent on making a film, a group of resourceful young boys don't let limited resources stand in their way.

Through funny, serious or unusual portraits of Ramallah inhabitants, Flavie Pinatel attempts, with this film, to get this city out of its tragedy and...

Palestinian Mahmoud Khalil began his studies at the GDR’s German Academy of Film Art in 1976. His diploma film, HEIDIA MOURAD – I AM NOT A DREAMER, is...

The last Station is a personal experience of Exile, Return and the Dream of a Homeland. This journey between the Dream and the Reality contains lots...

Nawal moved to Berlin from the West Bank to establish a life away from occupation, leaving behind her mother, an Israeli activist living in the West B...

Nassim visits his best friend May, before she moves to the United States. They spend their last night together in Jerusalem. The events of the night b...

What is behind Israel's war on Gaza? Why do so many Palestinians support armed struggle? Why are Israel and Hezbollah on the brink of full-scale war?...

A helicopter sweeps the desert, surveying a land at once ancient and modern, natural and built. Farmers work their fields, children play and bells sou...

The Via Dolorosa is a historic street in the heart of the Old City of Jerusalem, revered as the path that Jesus Christ took on his way to his crucifix...

In Jerusalem, a young poet wanders home through the nationalist Flag March. At home, he writes a poem under the thunder of Iranian rockets.

Traces the five-minute walk that Iyad Hallaq, a disabled boy, would take from his family’s home to the special needs institute where he attended class...