Welcome to the Palestine Cinema movie database
A Handful of earth (2009)
Origin: Unknown | Documentary | Director: Sahera Dirbas | 52 minutes
A Handful of Earth examines the role played by oral histories in maintaining the bond between Palestinian refugees and the homes from which they were driven in 1948
Ahed's Knee (2021)
Origin: Israel | Fiction | Director: Nadav Lapid | 109 minutes
A famous Israeli filmmaker struggles against the loss of freedom in his country
Ahmad Alive (2024)
Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Xan Oser & Ahmad Ghunaim | 37 minutes
“Ahmad Alive” is the harrowing story of Gazan travel vlogger, Ahmad Ghunaim. Ahmad never aspired to be a war correspondent, but after October 7th, with foreign journalists banned from Gaza, he needed to show the world what was happening.
A home on a rainbow (2015)
Origin: Lebanon | Documentary | Director: Rami Nihawi, Lina Alabed and Nadim Deaibes | 15 minutes
The inhabitants of “Al Marj” refugee camp located in the Bikaa Valley, fled from different regions in Syria to Lebanon, where the authorities granted them only 5 days to dismantle their laboriously built tents, without offering any alternative option
A House in Jerusalem (1998)
Origin: Israel | France | Documentary | Director: Amos Gitai | 90 minutes
Can a house be a metaphor for Arab-Jewish relations in Israel?
Aida Returns (2023)
Origin: Lebanon, Palestine | Documentary | Director: Carol Mansour | 72 minutes
When the director's mother dies from Alzheimer, longing for Yafa, her ashes are brought back to where she was born
Aid but no state (2014/15)
Origin: Palestine Germany | Documentary | Director: Sabrina Dittus | 85 minutes
Since the Oslo Accords, over $ 24 billion in international aid has gone to Palestine
Aisle (2019)
Origin: Lebanon Germany | Documentary | Director: Hicham Kayed | 52 minutes
Some 156,000 asylum seekers entered Germany in 2017 and 5014 died/disappeared travelling in the same year
Ajal Wing (2019)
Origin: Jordan | Documentary | Director: Tasneem Abu Sokkur | ? minutes
Echo section of the field
Ajami (2009)
Origin: Israel Germany | Fiction | Director: Scandar Copti & Yaron Shami | 124 minutes
Israeli Arab drama film. Its plot is set in the Ajami neighborhood of Jaffa