Palestinian Territories Movies

A documentary which chronicles the lives of an elder Palestinian generation who decided to stay in their homes in Haifa after 1948. The film's subjects are aged women and men who are over seventy, still living in Haifa, narrating their personal experience thro...

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 for a visit to Gaza in 2006, he was 18 years old. He was never allowed to return – his mother Hekmat has been fig...

In 2009, the Afghan Parliament approved the Shia Family Law, which was then signed by President Karzai. The law severely restricted women’s freedom, making it illegal for them to exit the house without their husband’s consent or resisting to their husband’s se...

This film focuses on an old Palestinian man who is the subject of artist Ismail Shammout’s painting Memories and Fire. The film unravels his memories using archival photographs and Shammout’s own paintings to tell the story of Palestinian experience and resist...

In war-torn Gaza, a desperate father in a displacement camp promises his starving children that he will feed them today -- no matter what it takes. He sets out on a dangerous journey to find food. Will he keep his promise?

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...

Without dialogue, this film tells an ancient story – a wish you can only whisper to seashells before casting them into the ocean. That is how dreams may come true. But in Gaza, where the sea is closed to dreams, the Dream Collector appeared. He gathered seashe...

The film follows Fidaa Abu Maryam on her journey to wield storytelling as a psychological shield. By gathering the testimonies of Gazan women, she transforms their narratives into a living archive of feminist memory, defying oblivion and reclaiming the self fr...

Far from the news, a silent genocide seeks to crush the humanity and femininity of women in displacement camps. The film dives into spontaneous moments of shared storytelling, where displaced women gather to reclaim their selves through ancient rituals. It is...

A story of a Palestinian child from Tulkarm Camp for the Palestinian refugees. This child was born in one of the Israeli prisons. He spent more than two and a half years there. Then, he was separated from his mother who is still remaining arrested in prison ti...

Events of the feature film revolve around a group of Palestinian youth who were forced by life circumstances to emigrate from Gaza Strip in 2012, to lose their tracks after boarding a smuggling boat from the shores of Alexandria in Egypt

Orphaned by the holocaust, 90-year-old Jacques Bude recounts his time in post-war Israel, and why his experience with genocide compelled him to the Palestinian cause.

In the heart of the Gaza Strip, four men navigate through divergent paths in pursuit of their definitions of existence, intertwining their fates amidst the complexities of life, love, and survival.

Historical documentary from Palestinian filmmaker, Ibrahim Abu Nab (1931 - 1991),narrates the aftereffects of the 1967 War on the people of the West Bank. From powerful testimonials from lawyers, academics and victims of displacement, to the chronicling of th...

While reflecting on the present, a young Palestinian recalls childhood memories of the military invasion and siege of Bethlehem. By trying to understand how his parents led him though those difficult times, he hopes to find the strength and support he needs to...

During the summer of 2014 Gaza war, in the battered neighbourhood of Shujaiya, 37-year-Salma made her home her shelter from the attacks. She and her daughter are protected in relative calm, until she receives a text message warning her of their impending fate.

A gay Palestinian in the closet goes out to a blind date with a guy that cat-fished him. When he tries to escape the guy threatens to expose his sexual identity. Trying not to get in trouble, he decides to come-out by himself to his own family.

In RPGs (role-playing games),one could say that real life can be rehearsed in a superstitious manner, with supernatural beings and worlds. Since the emergence of computer processing power and video games, the third world was a source for worldbuilding and spa...

Short film by Jumana Dabis

Al Maram is a portrait of Maram Humaid, a Palestinian journalist displaced to Gaza after October 7, 2023, like her ancestors during the Nakba. Maram continues to work as a journalist to report the reality of the genocide to the world.