Welcome to the Palestine Cinema movie database
Where Olive Trees Weep (2024)
Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo | 103 minutes
"Where Olive Trees Weep" offers a searing window into the struggles and resilience of the Palestinian people under Israeli occupation. It explores themes of loss, trauma, and the quest for justice.
Where should the birds fly (2012)
Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Fida Qishta | 58 minutes
The compelling and moving story of two remarkable young women, the future of Palestine
Where the wind blows (2024)
Origin: USA, Palestine | Documentary | Director: Hana Elias | 16 minutes
After building a life in New York City, Nassib returns to his Palestinian hometown of Shefa-’Amr after 50 years to revive an ancestral garden. Filmmaker Hana Elias is filming the rituals around their first olive harvest.
Wherever you go (2011)
Origin: Israel | Fiction | Director: Ronny Sasson Angel | 63 minutes
Two women on the run for their Jewish Orthodox and Bedouin families
While We Waited For You (2020)
Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Muayad Alayan | 7 minutes
A short diary captured by Muayad Alayan during the Covid-19 lockdown when the director and his journalist wife await the birth of their child
Whispers of the Cities (2014)
Origin: UK | Documentary | Director: Kasim Abid | 62 minutes
Three different cities of the Middle East, Erbil, Ramallah, Baghdad
White oil (2013)
Origin: Unknown | Documentary | Director: Judy Price | 60 minutes
Documentary about the quarries in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Why? (1982)
Origin: Lebanon | Documentary | Director: Monica Maurer | 28 minutes
Filmmaker Maurer teamed with Iraqi filmmaker Samir Nimr to make Why?. Shot in Beirut and released during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, the film portrayed the brutality of the siege, the indiscriminate attacks and people's survival.
Why War (2024)
Origin: Israel | Documentary | Director: Amos Gitai | 90 minutes
Albert Einstein was invited by the League of NationAlbert Einstein's correspondance with Sigmund Freud on the subject of avoiding war. Why War explores the roots of war and sets out to understand the causes of violence and actual conflicts
Wifi Rider (2020)
Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Roxy Rezvany | 13 minutes
A young Palestinian turns to the internet as he struggles to shape his identity under the pressures of life in East Jerusalem.