Welcome to the Palestine Cinema movie database
Roof Knocking (2017)
Origin: Palestine | Fiction | Director: Sina Salimi | 12 minutes
A mother receives a phone threat giving her 10 minutes to leave
Roshmia (2014)
Origin: UAE/Qatar/Palestine/Syria/Lebanon | Documentary | Director: Salim Abu Jabal | 70 minutes
The shack in which an elderly couple has been living for decades, is threatened by the expansion of nearby city
Roubama (2012)
Origin: Unknown | Fiction | Director: Rakan Mayasi | 15 minutes
Portrait of a young refugee pitting his vivid imagination against the grim reality around him
Rough Stage (2015)
Origin: Estnonia/Palestine | Documentary | Director: Toomas Järvet | 74 minutes
Maher, a former political prisoner, starts a quest against the society in order to stage the first original contemporary dance performance in Palestinian history
Route 181, Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel (2003)
Origin: France, Palestine, Israel | Documentary | Director: Michel Khleifi & Eyal Sivan | 272 minutes
A journey to the heart of the many physical and social fault lines that today divide and define the peoples of this land
Route 60 (2013)
Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Alaa Ashkar | 74 minutes
A poetic journey to the daily lives of Palestinians in the West Bank
RPG Kids (2022)
Origin: Lebanon, Palestine | Documentary | Director: Abdallah Motan | 19 minutes
In 1982 the war had spread to the Palestinian-Lebanese border, and the Israeli forces entered the Rashidiy a camp in southern Lebanon. Here young children were waiting them with RPG weapons. The director talks with these children after 40 years.
Rule of Stone (2024)
Origin: Israel, Palestine | Documentary | Director: Danae Elon | 85 minutes
If Jerusalem stone could speak, it would tell this story: from Imperial Britain to the Israeli occupation, buildings in Jerusalem have been clad in it. This is a story of how beauty and abuse go hand in hand.
Rupture (or: Breaking) (2017)
Origin: Jordan Canada | Fiction | Director: Yasmina Karajah | 18 minutes
Four Palestinian/Syrian teens, newly arrived in Canada, set out to find a public pool
Sabaya (2015)
Origin: Palestine | Fiction | Director: Taghreed al-Azzeh | 7 minutes
Three young girls escape from home to go to the sea but never arrive