Welcome to the Palestine Cinema movie database


Step & a Half (2011)
Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Enas Ayish | 6 minutes
Enas decided to call a taxi and set off to discover the city she doesn't know, even though it's only a step and a half away from her home!


Stern: The Man, the Gang and the State (2024)
Origin: Israel, Palestine | Documentary | Director: Hossam Sarhan | 47 minutes
The story about Avraham Stern, leader of a Zionist armed group that fought the British in Palestine, aimed to create a Jewish state.


Still Alive in Gaza (Aisheen) (2010)
Origin: Qatar/Switzerland/Israel | Documentary | Director: Nicolas Wadimoff | 86 minutes
The wait for a better future inside the biggest prison in the world

Still life (2005)
Origin: USA Palestine | Fiction | Director: Diana Allan | 23 minutes
A series of personal photos that survived the 1948 explusions now play in the life of an elderly refugee living in exile


Stitches (2024)
Origin: Canada | Documentary | Director: Deena A. Alsaweer | 5 minutes
Stitches is about a joyful dressmaker and his feisty niece defy a wedding dress ban by smuggling them as shisha (hookah) packing paper, but the harsh realities of war disrupt their plans.


Stitching Palestine (2017)
Origin: Lebanon Jordan Palestine | Documentary | Director: Carol Mansour | 78 minutes
Palestinian women in the diaspora all connected by the enduring thread of embroidery

Stolen Youth (2004)
Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Saed Andoni | 18 minutes
Children speak about their arrest and detention by Israel


Stone Cold Justice (2014)
Origin: Australia | Documentary | Director: John Lyons, Janine Cohen and Sylvie Le Clezio | 45 minutes
Israel’s torture of Palestinian children


Stories from behind the wall (2006)
Origin: Unknown | Documentary | Director: Alia Arasoughly | 24 minutes
The medical impact of the closure of Jerusalem and the reinforcement of the Wall around the city and other Palestinian population centres


Strange Cities are Familiar (2019)
Origin: UK | Documentary | Director: Saeed Taji Farouky | 20 minutes
Ashraf, a Palestinian father living in the UK, who is struggling to confront the memories that haunt him