Welcome to the Palestine Cinema movie database
The Roof (2006)
Origin: Unknown | Documentary | Director: Kamal Aljafari | 61 minutes
The roof of the title is an absent one, on the unfinished house where Aljafari's family has lived since their resettlement in 1948
The Salt Fisherman (2011)
Origin: Israel | Fiction | Director: Ziad Bakri | 18 minutes
A fisherman lives alone. His days and nights are marked by waiting. He rises with the sun and carries his anxieties and tools to the sea, where he fishes. What's behind his days?
The School at Khan al-Ahmar (2017)
Origin: UK | Documentary | Director: Helen Eisler | 17 minutes
The story of the ‘mud and tyre’ school at Al Khan Al Ahmar and its immenent destruction
The Secret World (2009)
Origin: Unknown | Fiction | Director: Nicholas Rowe | 65 minutes
A group of Palestinian school children wake up one day to find all the adults have disappeared
The Settlement (2015)
Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: stopthewall.org | 3 minutes
3 min. Video by 'Stop the Wall'
The Settlers (2016)
Origin: France/Canada/Israel/Germany | Documentary | Director: Shimon Dotan | 110 minutes
Hundreds of thousands of Israeli citizens have established expanding communities in the occupied territories of the West Bank
The Seventh Summit (2016)
Origin: Unknown | Documentary | Director: Elia Youssef | 66 minutes
The story of mountaineers who have taken on the Seven Summits Challenge
The Seven Villages (2020)
Origin: Czech Republic Lebanon | Documentary | Director: Samia Abou Kharroub & Farah Abou Kharroub | 17 minutes
A conversation over video call between Farah, who recently moved to Prague, and her grandmother, living in Lebanon
The Seven Waves (2021)
Origin: Palestine | Fiction | Director: Asma Bseiso | 69 minutes
In two parallel timelines, the film follows the journey of a Palestinian rowing champion striving to achieve her dream and the story of a fisherman and marine rescuer who has spent his life by the Gaza Sea.
The Shadow of absence (2007)
Origin: Unknown | Documentary | Director: Nasri Hajjaj | 84 minutes
The anxiety of Palestinian exile through an interrogation of relationships between place, home, and death