Palestinian Territory Movies

Documentary: memories of Palestinian citizens about their occupied homeland

When Palestinian father Abou Yousef leaves for Gaza after a decade of living in Norway, his daughter Mai begins to confront the emotional distance...

During the first Palestinian Intifada, or uprising, that began in December 1987, Palestinian-American filmmaker Tony Kandah made the documentary...

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...

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...

A Palestinian fairy tale about a girl who faces substantial hardships in her life. After years of silently and patiently bearing difficulty, she is...

Piecing together the powerful testimonies of Bedouin women fighting to preserve their culture and history, we move between fragmented representations...

Shuja’iyah: Land of the Brave represents one filmmaker’s personal reflection on the meaning of “crimes against humanity” in...

"Nothing can be heard anymore; the roar of our plane absorbs every other sound. We are heading straight to the world's biggest display of soundproof...

Five friends, fourteen donkeys, and a clumsy quest to escape unemployment in occupied Palestine.

Footage documenting the making of a mass grave in Khan Younis, Gaza is slowed frame by frame, re-shot on film and soaked in human blood. all that...

Ahmad Natche's last, unfinished film premiered posthumously at Doclisboa. In "The Storyteller," we witness a rehearsal for a new play at the El...

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...

Traces the five-minute walk that Iyad Hallaq, a disabled boy, would take from his family’s home to the special needs institute where he...

Amine, a Palestinian elder, is exiled twice: from land and from labour. Displaced from Haifa to Beirut, then again to Zirku Island, an offshore oil...

Inspired by memories of her grandmother and the delicious food of her childhood, Vivien Sansour wants to reintroduce long forgotten Palestinian...

The Key was made by Ghaleb Sha'ath to accompany the Palestine delegation to the 1976 UN Habitat conference in Vancouver. It is the first Palestinian...

The angel of history will rise, awaken the dead, and rebuild what has been destroyed; for ‘We have on this earth what makes life worth...

A personal project with a communal impact, this film aims at transforming individual memories of suffering into a collective memory. It portrays both...

First film by artist and filmmaker Emily Jacir.