Welcome to the Palestine Cinema movie database
Still Playing (2025)
Origin: France | Documentary | Director: Mohamed Mesbah | 37 minutes
West Bank, summer 2024. Rasheed, a video game designer, struggles to raise his two sons despite Israeli army raids and news from Gaza. At night, he creates games where mothers and fathers are no longer able to protect their children.
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
Stranger in my home (2007)
Origin: Unknown | Documentary | Director: Sahera Dirbas | 37 minutes
The stories of eight Palestinian Jerusalemite families that were twice turned into refugees in their own city
Strawberry (2017)
Origin: Palestine | Fiction | Director: Aida Ka'adan | 17 minutes
Consumed by a lifelong yearning for the sea, Samir, a 43-year-old Ramallah shop owner, joins a group of Palestinian construction workers on a clandestine border crossing.
Street Art from the West Bank (2024)
Origin: Palestine, UK | Documentary | Director: Juman Quneis | 10 minutes
Street Art from the West Bank is an opportunity to see and hear about the street art created in the West Bank and in UK cities, including Leeds, during a recent visit by Taqi Spateen.