Welcome to the Palestine Cinema movie database
The Smell of Paradise (1982)
Origin: Lebanon | Documentary | Director: Omar Amiralay | 42 minutes
About the situation in which Palestinians lived in 1982, including the invasion and siege of Beirut, the exit of the Palestine Liberation Organization from Beirut, as well as the Sabra and Shatila massacre,
The Smile of the Lamb (1986)
Origin: Israel, Palestine | Fiction | Director: Shimon Dotan | 97 minutes
Hilmi’s adopted son turns to terrorism and is subsequently shot by Israeli security forces. He takes his physician friend hostage and threatens to execute him unless Israel immediately withdraws from the Occupied Territories.
The Soldier's Opinion (2022)
Origin: Israel | Documentary | Director: Assaf Banitt and Shay Hazkani | 57 minutes
From 1948 onward the Israeli military censorship examined soldiers’ letters under the guise of preventing the disclosure of military secrets ánd stored them, resulting in a top secret report “The Soldier’s Opinion."
The Sons of Eilaboun (2007)
Origin: Germany | Palestine | Israel | Documentary | Director: Hisham Zreiq | 25 minutes
documentary film about the massacre, expulsion, and eventual return of a small Palestinian village in the Galilee
The Stones cry out (2013)
Origin: Italy Palestine | Documentary | Director: Yasmine Perni | 65 minutes
A detailed account of the historical, cultural, and political place occupied by Christians in the recent history
The story of an olive tree in a whirlpool (2023)
Origin: Netherlands, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine | Documentary | Director: Mohammad Abou Chair | 60 minutes
A social documentary with a fiction story about a journey of an anonymous person and an olive tree looking for soil, looking for a home. Along the way different people in different countries share their stories and identity.
The Story of Milk and Honey (2011)
Origin: Lebanon | Fiction | Director: Basma Alsharif | 10 minutes
Photographs, drawings and text, detailing an un-named individual's failure to write a love story
The Stranger (al-Garib) (2021)
Origin: Syria, Germany, Palestine, Qatar | Fiction | Director: Ameer Fakher Eldin | 112 minutes
In a small village in the occupied Golan Heights, a desperate unlicensed doctor is going through an existential crisis
The Sun and the Looking Glass (2020)
Origin: Palestine Belgium | Fiction | Director: Milena Desse | 23 minutes
The Sun and the Looking Glass is an essay-film which paints a portrait of a place on a hill above Ein Qiniya, a Palestinian village in the West Bank
The Syrian Bride (2006)
Origin: Israel | Fiction | Director: Eran Reklis | 97 minutes
A Druze wedding and the troubles the politically unresolved situation creates for the personal lives of the people in and from the village