Palestinian Territory Movies

A helicopter sweeps the desert, surveying a land at once ancient and modern, natural and built. Farmers work their fields, children play and bells...

Cinema Palestine features interviews with a wide range of film and media makers as well as excerpts from award-winning films to outline the emergence...

Abed, a young Palestinian, enters Israel illegally by passing under the Wall, through the sewers. He works in a restaurant in the West of Jerusalem....

Three boys are growing up in Israel and the Palestinian territories, right next to each other, in completely different worlds. We follow them over...

In the north of Israel, Nagham, a Palestinian girl, decides to return to Bir’em, her family’s village, which was destroyed during the...

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

Like many people of his generation, Ali has decided to run away from the hardships of war. Along his way, he meets a strange person in a bus station:...

While millions of birds migrate freely in the skies above, Fadia, a Palestinian refugee stranded in Lebanon, yearns for the ancestral homeland she is...

Syrian-Palestinian film The Knife (1971), based on Palestinian revolutionary Ghassan Kanafani‘s novella All That’s Left To You; an...

An inter-generational discovery journey of a book seller and his nephew who are made to smuggle books in the face of Israel's ongoing oppression of...

A rare film by the legendary filmmaker Mustafa Abu Ali, one of the founders of the Palestine Film Unit, the first filmic arm of the Palestinian...

Actress Maisa Abd Elhadi was shot while protesting in 2021. This short reimagines the moment the actress danced with the forces and through...

The films in the PLO Media Unit were supposed to show a self-determined image of Palestinian reality – and they went missing during the Israeli...

In a cotton-farming village in Sudan, Nafisa — a fifteen-year-old girl from Sudan — learns about life and love under the watchful eye of...

A breakdown on the way to the airport provides a father and son with an opportunity to reconnect.

Reflecting on the relationship between native plants and people, the film looks at the sumac plant (from staghorn sumac), which is native to parts of...

The documentary film "Former Freedom Fighter" documents the lives of fighters who carried weapons in defense of Palestine and spent years of their...