Welcome to the Palestine Cinema movie database
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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
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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
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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...
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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
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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"
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The Tower (Wardi) (2018)
Origin: Norway/Sweden/France | Fiction | Director: Mats Grorud | 74 minutes
Family testimonies, from one generation to the next
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The Truth: Lost at Sea (2017)
Origin: Jordan | Documentary | Director: Rifat Audeh | 56 minutes
The Freedom Flotilla, a convoy of humanitarian ships
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The Turtle's Rage (Schildkrötenwut) (2012)
Origin: Germany | Documentary | Director: Pary el-Qualqili | 70 minutes
The story of a mysterious man whose life has been molded by flight, expulsion, and exile
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The Unrecognized (2019)
Origin: Israel | Documentary | Director: Anna Oliker | 48 minutes
When the Israeli government forms a plan to urbanize Bedouin villages in the Negev, the lives of 120,000 citizens are on the verge of radical change
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The Upper Gate (Bawabat Al-Fawqa) (1991)
Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Arab Loutfi | 90 minutes
The Israeli occupation of South-Lebanon in 1982