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Women beyond borders (2003)
Origin: Egypt | Documentary | Director: Jean Chamoun | 58 minutes
This film turns the camera on female exinmates of the notorious Khiam prison, run by Israel in southern Lebanon until 2000


Women in Sink (2015)
Origin: UK Israel | Documentary | Director: Iris Zaki | 37 minutes
At "Fifi's", a hair salon owned by a Christian Arab in Haifa Arab and Jewish women share their differences and a community of views on politics, history and love

Women in struggle (2004)
Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Buthina Canaan Khoury | 56 minutes
Testimony from four female Palestinian exprisoners who disclose their experiences during their years of imprisonment in Israeli jails and the effect it has had on their present and future lives


Women in the stadium (2011)
Origin: Unknown | Documentary | Director: Sawsan Qaoud | 52 minutes
The stories of four members of the Palestinian Women’s National Football Team as they navigate the physical and societal obstacles placed in the way of success


Women's testimonies of the nakba (2006)
Origin: Israel | Documentary | Director: Raneen Geries | 10 minutes
Testimonies of five Palestinian women living inside Israel today


Would You Have Sex with an Arab? (2011)
Origin: France | Documentary | Director: Yolande Zauberman | 85 minutes
A provocative and societal documentary in which Israeli Jews and Arabs are brought face-to-face with their own prejudices, grudges, and unexpected desires.


Write down, I am an Arab (2014)
Origin: Palestine, Israel | Documentary | Director: Ibtisam Mara'ana Menuhin | 73 minutes
Biographic documentary film about the national Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish


Writers on the borders (2004)
Origin: Unknown | Documentary | Director: Samir Abdullah - José Reynes | 80 minutes
Internationally renowned writers and intellectuals travel to Palestine


Writing on snow (2016)
Origin: Palestine, Tunisia | Documentary | Director: Rashid Masharawi | 72 minutes
Political and religious divisions weaken five Palestinians when they are trapped in an apartment during the war in Gaza


Xenos (2013)
Origin: UK | Greece | Denmark | Documentary | Director: Mahdi Fleifel | 12 minutes
Young Palestinian men from the Ain el-Helweh refugee camp in Lebanon travel with smugglers through Syria and Turkey into Greece