Palestinian Territories Movies

Three unmarried aristocratic Christian sisters from Ramallah have shut themselves in their villa clinging desperately to their former glory, until their orphan niece, Badia, walks into their life and turns their world upside down.

1964, a village in Galilee. The Mukhtar collaborates with Israeli military rule. Someone is forging work permits, and the Mukhtar's son and a steady metalsmith, Mahmud, want to marry the same woman. These story lines cross when the village teacher is arrested...

A poetry film that draws comparisons between haflat shabab (Palestinian bachelor parties),Oakland California's illegal rave scene, and the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Text elements and firsthand footage enhance the immersive experience and serve as a nar...

Hirbawi Textiles is the last-remaining factory in Palestine that produces the iconic Palestinian scarf known as the Kuffiyeh.

Filmed in 16mm during 1978 - to highlight the sophisticated social, medical, educational infrastructure that the PLO built during the 70ies in the refugee camps in Lebanon. The documentary is a cinematographic testimony of the Palestinian effort to build a sec...

Sami, 12, pursues an elusive carrier pigeon across Palestine, which he assumes has returned to its homeland. What quest is really behind the invisible pigeon?

Occupied Palestine: A serene landscape now pockmarked by military checkpoints. When a Palestinian film crew decides to avert a closed checkpoint by taking a remote side road, the political landscape unravels, and the passengers are slowly taken apart by the mu...

First film documentary of the atrocious genocide. Without statistics or specialized voices, only "wild anthropology" from the bowels of the Gaza Strip; the cruel experience at the moment of the facts, bombardment, destruction, and the heartbreaking pleas of th...

The Bethlehem-based Ma'an News Agency (MNA) emerged out of the ashes of the second Intifada to become the only independent news network in the Palestinian Territories and an increasingly prominent and influential journalistic force in the wider Middle East. Li...

Sumud, meaning “steadfastness” or “steadfast perseverance” in Arabic, is a common term used to describe Palestinian nonviolent everyday resistance against Apartheid Israel's military occupation.

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 Israel’s apartheid system is to deny Palestinians a home. Help end demolitions and forced evictions. Take acti...

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

Commissioned for the 2016 exhibition At the Seams: A Political History of Palestinian Embroidery, this documentary compiles several personal interviews with Palestinian women whose skillful hand-embroidery is rooted in the rich traditions and regional symbols...

A helicopter sweeps the desert, surveying a land at once ancient and modern, natural and built. Farmers work their fields, children play and bells sound a call to prayer. Dynamite ruptures the earth. UNDR is a poignant found-footage essay film about an otherwo...

We gain rare access inside the Jenin Battalion, a new Palestinian armed group that’s formed to fight back against Israeli military raids in the occupied West Bank. Fighter Abu Aseel, not his real name, takes us through Jenin and shows us how the brigade is tr...

Angela is a successful writer, widowed and wealthy. Her son Sean was born in London where he attends university, while she lives in a small town in northern Italy. Fatima is Maghreb like her husband but her children Nadia and Tarik were born in Italy: Nadia ma...

Route 181 is the epic record of a road trip undertaken in the summer of 2002 by two filmmakers, one Palestinian and one Israeli, along sections of what had been designated as the border between Israel and Palestine by U.N. Resolution 181 in 1947.

Darwish is a young man with existential fatigue. He returns home from work with one concern: to fix the broken fan, While his neighbor is shot in the building's lobby. Darwish gets stuck at the crime scene looking for solutions for the fan while police investi...

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 enveloping sights and sounds — serene and devastating at once.