Palestinian Territory Movies

During the first Palestinian Intifada, or uprising, that began in December 1987, Palestinian-American filmmaker Tony Kandah made the documentary...

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

Short film by Jumana Dabis

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

Following the operation against the Israeli sports delegation participating in the Munich Olympics in Germany in 1972, the Zionist entity launched...

Jawed Taiman takes a distinct look at Afghanistan and lets the Afghan people have their say. En route through the different provinces, through urban...

Our homes resemble us. They are our memories and our futures. Right now, 150,000+ Palestinians are at risk of losing their homes. At the heart of...

Samer lives in Ramallah in the West Bank. His family lives in Gaza, one hour away. They have not seen each other for six years. When Mustafa went...

Originally presented as an installation, this raw, haunting short by Basma al-Sharif depicts a horse ride at dusk on a farm in Gaza through...

A Childhood is a hybrid documentary that traces the lives of Palestinian children growing up under Israeli occupation, where play, imagination, and...

The film depcits the life of the orphans of Tel al-Zaatar Martyrs in “Bait el-Sumud”, the house which was set for them by the General...

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...

Saif Hammash uses archival sound as a lead to the moving images in his film, creating a narrative about livelihood, destruction, and survival. With...

I cycled over 300km alone through the occupied West Bank. This journey took me through Israeli checkpoints, military zones, and illegal Israeli...

Amid the buildings and streets of Ramallah, men take up positions. In a continuous, unedited shot, the camera witnesses a confrontation between...

Fairouz Hasan, a Palestinian filmmaker, embarks on an intimate journey to the heart of her memory via the letters she exchanged with her father, who...

Prisoner follows the story of a son, Adam (12 years old), who comes to realize, as he enters adolescence, that the imprisonment of his father, Saeed,...

Opening with the harrowing 2000 press footage of Palestinian boy Mohamad al-Durra’s death in his father’s arms, Eliane Raheb’s film...

Everyone was surprised at the triumph of Hamas in the last Palestinian elelctions, but the bigger surprise was that the women were behind that...