Welcome to the Palestine Cinema movie database
The Path Forward (2024)
Origin: USA | Documentary | Director: Julie Cohen, Mo Husseini | 40 minutes
A growing chorus of Palestinians and Israeli Jews are speaking up – often in cross-cultural pairs – for peace, justice, empathy and sanity. The Path Forward seeks to amplify the voices of three of the most eloquent and inspiring of these pairs.
The Patriarch’s Room (2016)
Origin: Canada | Israel | Documentary | Director: Danae Elon | 83 minutes
Greek Orthodox Patriarch Irineos was accused of selling church property to Jewish settlers. He denied all the accusations.
The People and the Olive: The Story of the Run Across Palestine (2012)
Origin: Palestine, USA | Documentary | Director: Aaron Dennis | 70 minutes
An inspiring documentary about the daily joys and struggles of Palestinian fair trade farmers and the American ultra-marathoners who ran across the West Bank planting olive trees and bridging cultures along the way.
The People’s Patriarch (2021)
Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Mohammed Alatar | 27 minutes
Patriarch Michel Sabbah: An Arab, Palestinian and Christian believer from Nazareth. In 1987, Pope John Paul II appointed him as the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem in 1987, to be the first Arab Patriarch to hold the office in the Catholic Church's history.
The Pessoptimist (2015)
Origin: Palestine | Fiction | Director: Mirna Bamieh | Short Film minutes
About an alien invasion of Palestine
The Pianist of Yarmouk (2017)
Origin: UK | Documentary | Director: Vikram Ahluwalia | 14 minutes
The remarkable journey of Aeham Ahmad, a classically trained musician attempting to escape the war in Syria
The Pipe (2018)
Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Sami Zarour | 10 minutes
An experience of solitary prison that goes beyond the walls of a cell
The Place (1) (or: Out of Place) (2000)
Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Azza El-Hassan | ? minutes
Each image and each place conjures up spaces that preoccupy the director Azza Al-Hassan; be it heaven or hell or the earth in between, each space evokes the spirits of the past, present and future, and amalgam history, geography and fantasy
The Place (2) (2019)
Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Azza El-Hassan | 5 minutes
The personal album of Palestinian photographer, Hani Jawherieh, tells a story of friendship and a world in the city of Jerusalem that was forced into disappearance
The Poem We Sang (2024)
Origin: Canada, Palestine | Documentary | Director: Annie Sakkab | 20 minutes
Photojournalist Annie Sakkab strings together found footage, images, poems and memories to contemplate how to overcome the trauma of losing a family home and forced migration.