Welcome to the Palestine Cinema movie database
Yom al-ard (2019)
Origin: Italy, Palestine | Documentary | Director: Monica Mauer | 15 minutes
Rare, recently restored footage of the Nakba shot in the Galilee (Nazareth, Deir Hanna and Sakhnin) on the occasion of the 5th anniversary of Land Day in March 1981.
You come from far away (2018)
Origin: Lebanon/Qatar | Documentary | Director: Amal Ramsis | 90 minutes
The Spanish Civil War, World War II, the Nakba and the Lebanese Civil Warretraced through the story of one family
You Don’t Live Here Anymore / אתה לא גר כאן יותר (2012)
Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Nizar Abu Zayyad | 9 minutes
Ahmad Darwish, an East Jerusalem resident studying in America lost his permanent residency following the Interior Ministry’s claim that he resided abroad for over six years
You reap what you sow (2017)
Origin: Palestine France | Documentary | Director: Alaa Ashkar - Khaled Ibrahim | 70 minutes
Self-reflection and self-discovery rather than a historical/sociological exploration
Your Father Was Born 100 Years Old... And So Was the Nakba (2017)
Origin: Palestine, Lebanon | Fiction | Director: Razan Al-Salah | 7 minutes
Palestinian grandmother returns to her hometown Haifa through Google Maps Streetview
Zahara (2009)
Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Mohammad Bakri | 63 minutes
Beginning with her childhood before the 1948 war we experience, as Zahara grows, the violent establishment of Israel
Zeitounat (Olive tree) (2002)
Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Liana Badr | 37 minutes
A film about the relationship between women and their ancestral olive trees
Zinco (2013)
Origin: Jordan | Documentary | Director: Serene Husni | 21 minutes
The evolution of construction material used in building Palestinian refugee houses in the Talbieh Refugee Camp in Jordan
Ziyara (2020)
Origin: France Morocco | Documentary | Director: Simone Bitton | 99 minutes
Bitton returns to her homeland and searches for the traces the Jews have left behind
Zoo (2023)
Origin: Gaza, Palestine | Fiction | Director: Tariq Rimawi | 8 minutes
This short animation is inspired by Gaza’s Zoo where the animals that died due to the war were embalmed and exhibited.