Welcome to the Palestine Cinema movie database
Salt (2023)
Origin: Palestine | Fiction | Director: Mateusz Miszczynski | 6 minutes
Two boys float on the Dead Sea in a visual poem connected to the spirit of Palestine that considers how strength and perseverance are found amid conflict, drawing parallels with the everyday realities of life in Palestine.
Salt of this sea (2008)
Origin: Palestine | Belgium | France | Spain | Switzerland | Fiction | Director: Annemarie Jacir | 109 minutes
Soraya, 28, born and raised in Brooklyn, decides to return to live in Palestine, the country her family was exiled from in 1948
Samia Halaby: A video portrait (2022)
Origin: USA | Documentary | Director: Munir Atalla | 7 minutes
A portrait of the abstract painter Samia Halaby.
Samir's Room (2011)
Origin: UK | Fiction | Director: Osama Qashoo | 17 minutes
Samir arrives home from College in the West to find his family, Mum, Dad, Sisters and Cousins, have been thrown out of their home by fundamentalist Israeli Settlers
Samouni Road (2018)
Origin: Italy France | Documentary | Director: Stefano Savona | 128 minutes
Partly animated documentary about traumatized children in Gaza
Samouni Street (2011)
Origin: Belgium | Documentary | Director: Tilde de Wandel | 13 minutes
The story of 4 kids of the extended Samouni family in Gaza. In animated drawings, they express what happened to them and their families during operation "Cast Lead," the Israeli attack on Gaza during the winter of 2008-2009.
Sanctuary (2025)
Origin: USA | Documentary | Director: Mena Nasiri | 9 minutes
Exploring police brutality and institutional hostility towards Arab and Muslim students, this documentary reveals how the University of Michigan's broad trends of surveillance transform a sanctuary into a symbol of systemic oppression.
Sand Creek Equation (2011)
Origin: USA | Palestine | Documentary | Director: Travis Wilkerson | 25 minutes
Travis Wilkerson employs a deceptively poetic style to suggest some terrible parallels link the 2008/9 war on the Gaza Strip to the 1864 massacre of Native Americans at Sand Creek, Colorado.
Sand Storm (2016)
Origin: Israel France | Fiction | Director: Elite Zexer | 87 minutes
A story of tradition, modernity, and divided family
Sara 2014 (2015)
Origin: Palestine UAE | Fiction | Director: Khalil al-Mozian | 87 minutes
Sara, a Palestinian girl in one of Gaza’s refugee camps, is a victim of an “honour killing”