Welcome to the Palestine Cinema movie database
Planet of the Arabs (2003)
Origin: USA | Fiction | Director: Jackie Salloum | 9 minutes
Hollywood's relentless vilification of Arabs and Muslims
Polygraph (2020)
Origin: Israel | Fiction | Director: Samira Saraya | 20 minutes
Yasmine, a lesbian Palestinian from Tel Aviv, has a relation with a Israeli intelligence officer. Then her sister visits her and discovers her lover is part of the occupying army
Pomegranates and myrrh (2009)
Origin: Palestine | Fiction | Director: Najwa Najjar | 105 minutes
Dancer Kamar’s joyful wedding to Zaid is followed almost immediately by Zaid’s imprisonment in an Israeli jail for refusing to relinquish his land.
Port of memory (2009)
Origin: France, Germany, Palestine | Documentary | Director: Kamal Aljafari | 106 minutes
Port of Memory is a reflection on the absurdity of being at once absent and present as a Palestinian living within Israel today. But Aljafari’s (The Roof) latest film is far more than a documentary
Praying for Armageddon (2023)
Origin: Palestine, U.S.A. | Documentary | Director: Tonje Hessen Schei | 96 minutes
A political thriller that reveals the power and influence of U.S. fundamentalist Evangelicals as they aim to fulfill the Armageddon prophecy.
Present Perspectives (2012)
Origin: Unknown | Documentary | Director: various directors | 52 minutes
An Oasis on a Hill - Jerusalem ER - Jerusalem Moments
Pressure Points: Israel, Berkeley and the Divestment Resolution (2012)
Origin: USA | Documentary | Director: Anne Paxton | 107 minutes
One of the first extended public debates in the United States over institutional divestment from companies invested in Israel's occupation and military
Prince of Jerusalem (2009)
Origin: Israel | Documentary | Director: Momen Shabaneh | 16 minutes
The story of four sites in Jerusalem connected to the history of the al-Husseini family
Private (2004)
Origin: Italy | Fiction | Director: Saverio Costanzo | 90 minutes
Middle class Palestinian family whose home is invaded and occupied by Israeli troops
Private investigation (2002)
Origin: Israel | Documentary | Director: Ula Tabari | 90 minutes
A documentary on living as a Palestinian in the Israeli Jewish state