Welcome to the Palestine Cinema movie database
The Stones cry out (2013)
Origin: Italy Palestine | Documentary | Director: Yasmine Perni | 65 minutes
A detailed account of the historical, cultural, and political place occupied by Christians in the recent history
The story of an olive tree in a whirlpool (2023)
Origin: Netherlands, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine | Documentary | Director: Mohammad Abou Chair | 60 minutes
A social documentary with a fiction story about a journey of an anonymous person and an olive tree looking for soil, looking for a home. Along the way different people in different countries share their stories and identity.
The Story of Milk and Honey (2011)
Origin: Lebanon | Fiction | Director: Basma Alsharif | 10 minutes
Photographs, drawings and text, detailing an un-named individual's failure to write a love story
The Stranger (al-Garib) (2021)
Origin: Syria, Germany, Palestine, Qatar | Fiction | Director: Ameer Fakher Eldin | 112 minutes
In a small village in the occupied Golan Heights, a desperate unlicensed doctor is going through an existential crisis
The Sun and the Looking Glass (2020)
Origin: Palestine Belgium | Fiction | Director: Milena Desse | 23 minutes
The Sun and the Looking Glass is an essay-film which paints a portrait of a place on a hill above Ein Qiniya, a Palestinian village in the West Bank
The Syrian Bride (2006)
Origin: Israel | Fiction | Director: Eran Reklis | 97 minutes
A Druze wedding and the troubles the politically unresolved situation creates for the personal lives of the people in and from the village
The Tale of the Three Jewels [Hikayatul jawahiri thalath] (1995)
Origin: Belgium | Spain | Palestine | UK | Fiction | Director: Michel Khleifi | 112 minutes
A Palestinian boy becomes entranced with a beautiful Gypsy girl and a fairy tale world she weaves amidst conflict in Gaza. The children explore nature, mysticism and what their future holds...
The Teacher (2023)
Origin: UK, Palestine, Qatar | Fiction | Director: Farah Nabulsi | 115 minutes
About the parallel struggles of a Palestinian schoolteacher grieving the loss of his son and an American couple fighting to reclaim their son from kidnappers
The Time that remains (2009)
Origin: Palestine | Fiction | Director: Elia Suleiman | 105 minutes
In Suleiman’s own words this “is a semibiographical film in four episodes, about a family, my family, from 1948 until recent times"
The Tower (Wardi) (2018)
Origin: Norway/Sweden/France | Fiction | Director: Mats Grorud | 74 minutes
Family testimonies, from one generation to the next