Welcome to the Palestine Cinema movie database
The Bride and The Dowry (1979)
Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Ibrahim Abu Nab | 26 minutes
About the aftereffects of the 1967 War on the people of the West Bank. From powerful testimonials from lawyers, academics and victims of displacement, to the chronicling of the story of a Palestinian leader.
The Bride Dress (2019)
Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Marwah Jbara Tibi | 52 minutes
The story of two Palestinian weddings, and monitors how wedding rituals take place under Israeli occupation
The bus driver (woman) (2016)
Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Iyad Alasttal | 15 minutes
The short film shows us the daily life and work of Salwa, a Palestinian woman working as a Kindergarten bus driver. On her route through the roads of Gaza, she debunks the all the myths on Arab muslim women, revealing an impressive trust in the future
The Chair (2017)
Origin: Palestine | Fiction | Director: Laila Abbas | 15 minutes
Coming to visit her family in Palestine, Olga finds that her grandmother passed away
The Chant (2024)
Origin: Jordan | Fiction | Director: May Ghouti (al Ghouti) | 22 minutes
The Chant is a series of three short stories about three neighbors of different ages who each resolve their problems within the span of a single day.
The Checkpoint Women: Memories (2023)
Origin: Israel | Documentary | Director: Eliezer Yaari | 60 minutes
In 2001, a group of Israeli women established Machsom Watch (Checkpoint Watch), an organization dedicated to guarding the human rights of Palestinians who must regularly pass through checkpoints between Israel and the West Bank.
The Children of Ibdaa (2002)
Origin: USA | Documentary | Director: S. Smith Patrick | 29 minutes
About the lives of several adolescents in a Palestinian children's dance troupe
The Children & The Wolf (2020)
Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Omar Jabareen | 11 minutes
A Palestinian boy is deprived of his role model l
The Children Who Live Under Israel’s Missiles (2015)
Origin: Gaza Strip, Palestine | Documentary | Director: Dan Cohen, Rebecca Pierce | 11 minutes
In July 2014 the Israeli army launched a strike on a beach of the Gaza Strip, where many children of the Bakr family were. Four boys were killed. And UNICEF noticed at least 425,000 children required immediate psychosocial support.
The Choice (2011)
Origin: Unknown | Fiction | Director: Yasin Erik Bognar | 9 minutes
In the besieged city of Ramallah, a father and his daughter are both faced with choices