Welcome to the Palestine Cinema movie database
Retreat (2020)
Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Bilal Alkhatib | 4 minutes
Shots that take us from the ordinary friendly reality to a world of isolation, perplexity, and fear. Mysterious, unfamiliar, and unknown worlds
Return to al-Ma’in (2025)
Origin: Israel, Palestine | Documentary | Director: Eyal Weizman | 30 minutes
Guided by the memories of Abu Sitta, researchers of Forensic Architecture (FA) reconstructed the occupation of his birthplace al-Ma’in by Israeli forces on 14 May 1948, its subsequent demolition, and the settlements constructed on its ruins.
Return to Haifa (1982)
Origin: Lebanon | Fiction | Director: Kassem Hawal | 85 minutes
Kasem Hawal’s adaptation of the Ghassan Kanafani novella Return to Haifa
Return to Ramallah (2022)
Origin: USA, Palestine, Turkey, | Documentary | Director: Ziad Foty | 76 minutes
After forty years away from his homeland of Ramallah, Palestine a father returns where he must confront the reality of change.
Return to Seifa Village (2015)
Origin: Gaza | Documentary | Director: Anne Paq & Roger Hill | 16 minutes
The aftermath of the Gaza war of 2014
Revolution Until Victory AKA We are the Palestinian People (1972)
Origin: Palestine | France | Jordan | Lebanon | USA | UK | Documentary | Director: Mohanad Yaqubi | 45 minutes
History of the Palestinian resistance
R-existence (2006)
Origin: Unknown | Documentary | Director: Marco Pasquini | 45 minutes
Five women, returning to their devastated villages in southern Lebanon after the 2006 war
Rico in the night (2007)
Origin: Palestine | Fiction | Director: Mohanad Yaqubi | 8 minutes
A surreal whirlwind tour of a city as close to sleep as it ever gets
Rise Up (2017)
Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Dina Amin / Alice Denny | 10 minutes
Rise Up is a 10 minute documentary following three young Palestinian artists based in the West Bank
Roadmap to apartheid (2012)
Origin: USA | Documentary | Director: Eron Davidson | 95 minutes
A detailed look at the apartheid analogy commonly used to describe the Israeli-Palestinian conflict