Welcome to the Palestine Cinema movie database
Son of Jerusalem (2017)
Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Khalil Bensira | 20 minutes
Palestinian children making a film in Jerusalem
Son of the Streets (2020)
Origin: Poland, Germany, Lebanon, Palestine | Documentary | Director: Mohammed Almughanni | 30 minutes
The Palestinian boy Khodor grows up without ID in the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut. In the struggle for citizenship, his right to education and health care, harrowing family secrets come to light.
Soraida: a woman of palestine (2004)
Origin: Canada | Documentary | Director: Tahani Rached | 119 minutes
Captures the reflections, concerns and imagination of a Palestinian woman, her family and her neighbourhood
Soufra (2017)
Origin: Lebanon/USA/Singapore | Documentary | Director: Thomas A. Morgan | 73 minutes
Palestinian refugee women start catering business
Sound of the Street (2006)
Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Annemary Jacir | 3 minutes
Busy ants are moving in their daily routines, with music and voices in the background, when suddenly a barrier appears
Soup over Bethlehem (Mloukhieh) (2006)
Origin: Unknown | Fiction | Director: Larissa Sansour | 10 minutes
A culinary discussion about the national dish being served (mloukhieh) evolves into a conversation on politics
South Lebanon: Story of a Village Under Siege (1976)
Origin: Lebanon | Documentary | Director: Jocelyne Saab | 14 minutes
In 1976, Lebanese filmmaker Jocelyne Saab traveled to the south of Lebanon to document the Israeli attacks on the Lebanese villages of Kufr Shuba and Hanine for French TV
Spaces of Exception (2019)
Origin: USA | Documentary | Director: Matt Peterson, Malek Rasamny | 90 minutes
Profiling the American Indian reservation alongside the Palestinian refugee camp, Spaces of Exception was filmed from 2014 to 2017 in Arizona, New Mexico, New York and South Dakota as well as Lebanon and the West Bank.
Speed Sisters (2015)
Origin: Palestine, USA, Canada, Qatar, Denmark, UK | Documentary | Director: Amber Fares | 80 minutes
The Speed Sisters are an all-female, Palestinian automobile racing team that competes on the West Bank's professional car racing circuit
Standstill (2013)
Origin: Palestine/Canada/Qatar | Fiction | Director: Majdi El-Omari | 104 minutes
Arihote, a Kanienkehaka 'Mohawk', sometime war photographer, whose life is in a rut, witnesses a revenge killing in Montreal by Wedad, a Palestinian refugee and is overwhelmed by the past as he tries to piece together the present.