Welcome to the Palestine Cinema movie database
The Boy from H2 (2017)
Origin: Palestine, Israel | Documentary | Director: Helen Yanovsky | 21 minutes
Hebron, the biggest city in the West Bank, is divided into two sectors: H1 and H2. Freedom of movement for Palestinians is extremely limited in H2. 12-year-old Palestinian Muhammad Burqan also lives here and comes into conflict with the military.
The Brazilian Palestine [A Palestina Brazileira] (2019)
Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Omar Luiz de Barros Filho | 79 minutes
In Brazil, immigrant communities born from Nakba seek a new citizenship, full integration, the right recognition of their economic and socio-cultural contribution but do not renounce to preserve their identity
The Bride and The Dowry (1979)
Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Ibrahim Abu Nab | 26 minutes
About the aftereffects of the 1967 War on the people of the West Bank. From powerful testimonials from lawyers, academics and victims of displacement, to the chronicling of the story of a Palestinian leader.
The Bride Dress (2019)
Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Marwah Jbara Tibi | 52 minutes
The story of two Palestinian weddings, and monitors how wedding rituals take place under Israeli occupation
The bus driver (woman) (2016)
Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Iyad Alasttal | 15 minutes
The short film shows us the daily life and work of Salwa, a Palestinian woman working as a Kindergarten bus driver. On her route through the roads of Gaza, she debunks the all the myths on Arab muslim women, revealing an impressive trust in the future
The Chair (2017)
Origin: Palestine | Fiction | Director: Laila Abbas | 15 minutes
Coming to visit her family in Palestine, Olga finds that her grandmother passed away
The Chant (2024)
Origin: Jordan | Fiction | Director: May Ghouti (al Ghouti) | 22 minutes
The Chant is a series of three short stories about three neighbors of different ages who each resolve their problems within the span of a single day.
The Checkpoint Women: Memories (2023)
Origin: Israel | Documentary | Director: Eliezer Yaari | 60 minutes
In 2001, a group of Israeli women established Machsom Watch (Checkpoint Watch), an organization dedicated to guarding the human rights of Palestinians who must regularly pass through checkpoints between Israel and the West Bank.
The Children of Ibdaa (2002)
Origin: USA | Documentary | Director: S. Smith Patrick | 29 minutes
About the lives of several adolescents in a Palestinian children's dance troupe
The Children & The Wolf (2020)
Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Omar Jabareen | 11 minutes
A Palestinian boy is deprived of his role model l