Welcome to the Palestine Cinema movie database
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The Pessoptimist (2015)
Origin: Palestine | Fiction | Director: Mirna Bamieh | Short Film minutes
About an alien invasion of Palestine
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The Pianist of Yarmouk (2017)
Origin: UK | Documentary | Director: Vikram Ahluwalia | 14 minutes
The remarkable journey of Aeham Ahmad, a classically trained musician attempting to escape the war in Syria
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The Pipe (2018)
Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Sami Zarour | 10 minutes
An experience of solitary prison that goes beyond the walls of a cell
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The Place (1) (or: Out of Place) (2000)
Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Azza El-Hassan | ? minutes
Each image and each place conjures up spaces that preoccupy the director Azza Al-Hassan; be it heaven or hell or the earth in between, each space evokes the spirits of the past, present and future, and amalgam history, geography and fantasy
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The Place (2) (2019)
Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Azza El-Hassan | 5 minutes
The personal album of Palestinian photographer, Hani Jawherieh, tells a story of friendship and a world in the city of Jerusalem that was forced into disappearance
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The Poem we Sang (2024)
Origin: Canada, Palestine | Documentary | Director: Annie Sakkab | 20 minutes
Photojournalist Annie Sakkab strings together found footage, images, poems and memories to contemplate how to overcome the trauma of losing a family home and forced migration.
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The Presence of Absence in the ruins of Kafr Bir'im (2008)
Origin: USA | Documentary | Director: John Halaka | 60 minutes
The village history of Kafr Bir'im and the unique struggle of its residents to return
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The Present (2020)
Origin: Palestine | Fiction | Director: Farah Nabulsi | 25 minutes
On his wedding anniversary, Yusef and his young daughter set out in the West Bank to buy his wife a gift. Between soldiers, segregated roads and checkpoints, how easy would it be to go shopping?
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The Promise (2011)
Origin: UK | Fiction | Director: Peter Kosminsky | 440 minutes
The story of a young woman who goes to present-day Israel/Palestine determined to find out about her soldier grandfather’s involvement in the final years of Palestine under the British mandate.
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The Prophet (2019)
Origin: Israel | Documentary | Director: Ilan Rubin Fields | 68 minutes
“Kahanism” has seeped into Israeli society, and Kahane’s prophecy about the divide between Judaism and democracy echoes today in the Knesset halls