Welcome to the Palestine Cinema movie database
The Presence of Absence in the ruins of Kafr Bir'im (2008)
Origin: USA | Documentary | Director: John Halaka | 60 minutes
The village history of Kafr Bir'im and the unique struggle of its residents to return
The Present (2020)
Origin: Palestine | Fiction | Director: Farah Nabulsi | 25 minutes
On his wedding anniversary, Yusef and his young daughter set out in the West Bank to buy his wife a gift. Between soldiers, segregated roads and checkpoints, how easy would it be to go shopping?
The Promise (2011)
Origin: UK | Fiction | Director: Peter Kosminsky | 440 minutes
The story of a young woman who goes to present-day Israel/Palestine determined to find out about her soldier grandfather’s involvement in the final years of Palestine under the British mandate.
The Prophet (2019)
Origin: Israel | Documentary | Director: Ilan Rubin Fields | 68 minutes
“Kahanism” has seeped into Israeli society, and Kahane’s prophecy about the divide between Judaism and democracy echoes today in the Knesset halls
The Purple Field (2015)
Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Nasri Hajjaj | 18 minutes
Tamer, a Palestinian-Syrian, flees war-torn Syria and ends up in Austria after a three-month journey through Europe
The Qalandiya report (2004)
Origin: Unknown | Documentary | Director: Tamar Goldschmidt | 8 minutes
Palestinians queuing at the infamous Qalandiya checkpoint between Jerusalem and Ramallah
The Quiver of the Branch by the Wind (1989)
Origin: Egypt | Fiction | Director: Majdi el Omari | 25 minutes
A film about a Palestinian refugee questioning his yearning and belonging for a place he does not even know
Therapy (2017)
Origin: Palestine | Fiction | Director: Ibrahim Handal | 3 minutes
Feeling loneliness while things are changing from the bright side to the darkness without explanation, seeing how people around act and react
There Are So Many Things Still to Say (Original title: Il y a tant de choses encore à raconter) (1997)
Origin: Syria, France | Documentary | Director: Omar Amiralay | 52 minutes
A few months before dying of cancer, Syrian dramatist Saadallah Wannous engages with his friend Omar Amiralay in a long conversation on the question of Palestine and the Arab-Israeli conflict
The Red Army-PFLP Declaration of World War (1971)
Origin: Japan Palestine | Documentary | Director: Masao Adachi & Kôji Wakamatsu | 69 minutes
Militant filmmaking and vital testimony to an era of global revolutionary beginnings