Welcome to the Palestine Cinema movie database
Setback of the Spirit (2017)
Origin: Jordan | Fiction | Director: Sa’ed Arouri | 15 minutes
'Jeddeh’, a grandparent finally returns with her grandson to one of the Palestinian cities. She finds her home exactly as she left it.
Shadi in the beautiful well (2003)
Origin: UK | Fiction | Director: Mahdi Fleifel | 11 minutes
An autistic boy, Shadi, lives in the heart of a Lebanese Palestinian refugee camp
Shake (2014)
Origin: Israel | Fiction | Director: Deema Dabis | 9 minutes
A gripping portrait of an encounter between an Israeli airport interrogator and a Palestinian-American traveler
Shalom Abu Bassem (2004)
Origin: Israel | Documentary | Director: Nissim Mossek | 53 minutes
Shalom Abu Bassem is a documentary by Nissim Mossek about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that follows a New York City Jewish settler and an Arab hummus vendor that are forced to live as neighbors in the heart of Jerusalem
Sharqiya (2012)
Origin: Israel France Germany | Documentary | Director: Ami Livne | 82 minutes
State officials order the demolition of bedouin homes
Shattered Memory (2024)
Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Hayat Laban | 15 minutes
About Mahfouz Abu Turk, a photojournalist, his memories and his archive, through which he documented the events he experienced in the city of Jerusalem and the West Bank from the first Intifada in 1987 and after.
Sheherazade’s Tears (Dim'at Shekherezada) (2006)
Origin: Israel | Ukraine | Documentary | Director: Judd (Yehuda) Ne’eman | 82 minutes
The struggle diary of choreographer Irina Jammal, a Ukrainian married to an Israeli Arab
Shikun (It's Not Over) (2024)
Origin: Israel / France / Switzerland / Brazil / United Kingdom | Fiction | Director: Amos Gitai | 84 minutes
Set in a single Israeli multi-use building, the Shikun, and inspired by Eugène Ionesco’s classic play “Rhinoceros”, a collection of theatrical episodes dramatises the rise of authoritarian thinking. Some characters turn into rhinoceroses and others resist
Shireen Abu Akleh: The Extrajudicial Killing of a Journalist (2022)
Origin: Palestine - UK | Documentary | Director: Forensic Architecture | 10 minutes
Reconstruction of the death of the Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh
Shivering in Gaza (2015)
Origin: Netherlands Gaza | Documentary | Director: Geert van Kesteren | 31 minutes
Dutch trauma treatment expert Jan Andreae meets with Gaza-based aid workers after the 2014 Israel-Gaza war and helps them to cope with fear, trauma and grief