Welcome to the Palestine Cinema movie database
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
The Truth: Lost at Sea (2017)
Origin: Jordan | Documentary | Director: Rifat Audeh | 56 minutes
The Freedom Flotilla, a convoy of humanitarian ships
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
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
The Upper Gate (Bawabat Al-Fawqa) (1991)
Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Arab Loutfi | 90 minutes
The Israeli occupation of South-Lebanon in 1982
The Urgent Call of Palestine (1973)
Origin: Lebanon | Documentary | Director: Ismael Shammout | 5 minutes
Restored documentary about Kamal Nasser, poet and freedom fighter, assassinated in 1973
The Veiled Hope (1994)
Origin: France | Documentary | Director: Norma Marcos | 55 minutes
The personal and political challenges facing Palestinian women
The Very Narrow Bridge (2024)
Origin: Israel, Palestine, Australia | Documentary | Director: Esther Takac | 76 minutes
An eye-opening journey into the lives of Palestinian and Israeli women and men who lost a child or parent in the conflict, but instead of responding with hate and anger, started a movement to end the violence.