Palestinian Territories Movies

A year into the genocide in Gaza, survivors of the destruction of al-Shifa Hospital recount the tragedy.

Suleiman and Mona are a couple who lead a solitary life in which they care for animals and trees and have constant heated discussions about their children’s life choices. However, one day, their routine is disturbed when a stranger shows around, calling to min...

Palestinians are fighting annihilation in maternity clinics, too. Like many wives of prisoners in Israeli jails, Hind is trying to smuggle her husband’s sperm in order to conceive a child and cling to hope for the future. But the operation is risky: sperm has...

In 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon and occupied its capital, Beirut. The film is a rare example of a PLO film made after the PLO’s departure from Beirut. It documents the burned and destroyed cultural and educational centers from which Israelis stole films, photo...

Considered by many as the Palestinian white oil, stone is the most sought-after raw natural material in Palestine. Unfortunately, much of the Palestinian industry is held hostage by Israeli builders, including matters related to Israeli construction within the...

You don't need to look all the way to the end: there isn't one.

Assassinated Lebanese intellectual Mahdi Amel — often dubbed “the Arab Gramsci” — famously said: “He who resists is never defeated.” What use is his thought to us today, and what is our responsibility as image makers to Gaza?

Tomorrow, again stages a dysfunctional news broadcast consisting of different segments which recreate and react to various prominent daily catastrophes from Palestine. Instead of a spoken narrative, the film resorts to exaggerated emotional and physical displa...

One family as an entire community Hreash House shows an extended Palestinian family living a collective existence in a concrete block in Nazareth. It shows a feast and its aftermath during Ramadan.

While struggling to understand his place as a second generation Jordanian–born Palestinian, Abood's uncle returns from Canada with stories of his youth as a refugee following the Naksa. Soon after, and with his uncle's stories fresh in his mind, Abood finds h...

Return to al-Ma’in chronicles the multiyear collaboration between Forensic Architecture (FA) and Palestinian historian and Nakba survivor Salman Abu Sitta on the reconstruction of his birthplace, the lost village of Ma’in Abu Sitta (or al-Ma’in). Guided by the...

In a small village in the occupied Golan Heights, the life of a desperate unlicensed doctor, who is going through an existential crisis, takes another unlucky turn when he encounters a man wounded in the war in Syria. Overturning all community expectations in...

In Independence, Hassan makes his interviewees uncomfortable; but in Invasion, he makes his audience squirm in their seats as well. This isn’t accomplished through gory footage (although a close-up on a gunshot wound in a 77-year-old man’s hand certainly quali...

Despite Israeli incursions into Jenin, Mahmoud and his young actors are staging a play they hope to perform abroad. Since October 7, Israeli assaults on the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank have intensified. Amid the chaos of incursions, shootings,...

Documentary: memories of Palestinian citizens about their occupied homeland

Children express their experiences of war and diaspora through drawings and testimonials.

An important documentary based on a speech by Comrade George Habash, the Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine on the first anniversary of the Martyrdom of Comrade Ghassan Kanafani. Through this speech the film shows the politi...

An unflinching portrait of life in Gaza at the height of Israeli attacks. The filmmakers follow a British doctor of Palestinian origin who travels to volunteer in a local hospital. What emerges is an uncensored chronicle of war, the daily fight to sustain a co...

A filmmaker follows smugglers in the cramped, dangerous tunnels beneath the Gaza-Egypt border.

A haunting, abstract and experimental narrative of a woman in the streets of Gaza surrounded by the devastation after the bombs have stopped. She has been helping others, but revelations show it is she who now needs help.