Palestinian Territories Movies

Gaza December 7, 2023 - “As a hand rises on the brink of death and shipwreck…”, poet Reefat Alareer appeals one last time to love.

The story of how a small group of teenagers created a skate scene from scratch in a place where you can't even buy a skateboard, whilst facing the challenges of living under military occupation.

An elderly Palestinian refugee couple lives in a shack all alone in their eighties, in Wadi Roshmia, close to Haifa city, far away from the loudness of modern life. The Israeli occupation forces endorsed a new road project and ordered the demolition of the sha...

Nearly 10 years after the beginning of the Syrian revolution, three Syrian activists – Yadan, Odai and Rani – reunite on a theatre stage in Paris. Through life-size projections onto a big screen, Syrian director Rami Farah confronts the three men with footage,...

The story of a country that is obliged to give up on its future... The documentary pictures the town of Tor famous for its coal mines located in the north of Afghanistan, which most of us haven’t even heard of, and the tragedy of the children that are obliged...

Zooming through neighborhoods in the West Bank, two Palestinian teenagers find freedom in their skateboarding community.

"The Boy Of The Fish" follows Noon, a young boy living in a Syrian refugee camp, who finds solace and a sense of freedom in a whale-shaped doll he names "Bahr." Set against the challenging realities of camp life, Noon’s journey is both a story of resilience an...

Four journalists in Gaza recount their vital work of reporting the news, despite massive destruction, massacres, forced displacement, extreme difficulty in accessing basic necessities, their personal tragedies, and the constant danger of death. Director Shrou...

Amid the ruins of northern Gaza, Ibrahim clings to the only companion he has left: Farfour, a stray cat he adopted during the war. Farfour has become more than just a pet for Ibrahim. He has turned into his shadow, his confidant, his last connection to humanit...

Daily life of Palestinians of Gaza during the year of 2005.

A film that tells a part of Palestinian citizen's life under occupation

Haidar Eid was raised in Gaza City after his parents were violently expelled from their home village of Zarnouqa in 1948. In 2019 A conversation emerges between Haidar and Neta Golan, an Israeli anti-Zionist comrade, as she shares with him footage from his hom...

Using layered, painterly animation and abstracted imagery of military vehicles, the film reflects on the relentless machinery of war and genocide and its dehumanizing force. Based on paintings by Gaza-based Palestinian artist Mohammed Joha.

Tensions rise at home when Salma's family braces for a visit from Lebanese relatives. After not having seen them in over 20 years, her mother and teta return to Middle Eastern traditions in order to impress. However, as a high school senior struggling with her...

Contrasting the Palestinian Diaspora experience with that of footage shot on location in Jenin Refugee Camp, poet and singer Mustafa's original song accompanies a short film about the common pain of a People.

Hassan runs a nonprofit lotto company to treat poor youth with heart diseases. After losing his organization financially and also his mother, due to the political situation, Hassan is left with no choice but to leave the country and join his fiancé Tabasom, wh...

In 1997-1998, many Bedouin Palestinian refugees living under Israeli Occupation were forcibly displaced by Israel to a garbage dump. During that entire period, the Oslo Peace Process was ongoing, with 'high hopes' for peace, while a plan existed to forcibly di...

The war in Gaza has killed nearly 16,000 children since October 2023, most of whom have died in indiscriminate bombings. Yet a deeply unsettling subset of these deaths stands apart - children arriving at trauma centres with gunshot wounds. Doctors in Gaza repo...

Ram(z)I is a lonely, working-class man who died twice. Ram(z)I was renamed as soon as his first body died to die again in Jerusalem, buried under a dusty ground while digging for artifacts of a 6000 year-old ancient city. This film explores the obsession of a...