Welcome to the Palestine Cinema movie database
The story of an olive tree in a whirlpool (2023)
Origin: Netherlands, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine | Documentary | Director: Mohammad Abou Chair | 60 minutes
A social documentary with a fiction story about a journey of an anonymous person and an olive tree looking for soil, looking for a home. Along the way different people in different countries share their stories and identity.
The Story of Jenin (2024 - 2025)
Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Ehab Ghafri | 65 minutes
This documentary tells the story of the camp and its residents since 2013, combining civilians’ daily lives with writings that reveal their ongoing suffering.
The Story of Milk and Honey (2011)
Origin: Lebanon | Fiction | Director: Basma Alsharif | 10 minutes
Photographs, drawings and text, detailing an un-named individual's failure to write a love story
The Stranger (al-Garib) (2021)
Origin: Syria, Germany, Palestine, Qatar | Fiction | Director: Ameer Fakher Eldin | 112 minutes
In a small village in the occupied Golan Heights, a desperate unlicensed doctor is going through an existential crisis
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
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...
The Tank and the Olive Tree (2019)
Origin: France, Palestine | Documentary | Director: Rolan Nurier | 101 minutes
The history of Palestine, from its beginnings up until today, is far from what the media calls ‘the Israel-Palestine conflict’. The Tank and the Olive Tree is a primordial clarification based on factual and incontestable elements.
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 THOUSAND AND ONE DAYS OF HAJI EDMOND (2025)
Origin: Morocco, France | Documentary | Director: Simone Bitton | 93 minutes
A portrait of Edmon Amran Almaleh, the former communist Morroccan leader, haunted by tragedies such as the departure of Jews from Morocco and the exodus of Palestinians torn from their land, which he draws parallels between.