Welcome to the Palestine Cinema movie database
The Present (2020)
Origin: Palestine | Fiction | Director: Farah Nabulsi | 25 minutes
On his wedding anniversary, Yusef and his young daughter set out in the West Bank to buy his wife a gift. Between soldiers, segregated roads and checkpoints, how easy would it be to go shopping?
The Promise (2011)
Origin: UK | Fiction | Director: Peter Kosminsky | 440 minutes
The story of a young woman who goes to present-day Israel/Palestine determined to find out about her soldier grandfather’s involvement in the final years of Palestine under the British mandate.
The Promise (2022)
Origin: Jordan | Documentary | Director: Leonardo Antonio Avezzano | 84 minutes
After the death of his father a young Palestinian man is lost. He’s caught in a mental vortex, unable to find his identity, unable to escape the promise he made to his father on his death bed.
The Prophet (2019)
Origin: Israel | Documentary | Director: Ilan Rubin Fields | 68 minutes
“Kahanism” has seeped into Israeli society, and Kahane’s prophecy about the divide between Judaism and democracy echoes today in the Knesset halls
The Purple Field (2015)
Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Nasri Hajjaj | 18 minutes
Tamer, a Palestinian-Syrian, flees war-torn Syria and ends up in Austria after a three-month journey through Europe
The Qalandiya report (2004)
Origin: Unknown | Documentary | Director: Tamar Goldschmidt | 8 minutes
Palestinians queuing at the infamous Qalandiya checkpoint between Jerusalem and Ramallah
The Quiver of the Branch by the Wind (1989)
Origin: Egypt | Fiction | Director: Majdi el Omari | 25 minutes
A film about a Palestinian refugee questioning his yearning and belonging for a place he does not even know
Therapy (2017)
Origin: Palestine | Fiction | Director: Ibrahim Handal | 3 minutes
Feeling loneliness while things are changing from the bright side to the darkness without explanation, seeing how people around act and react
The reality that surpasses me (2023)
Origin: Palestine, Tunisia | Documentary | Director: Jihen Sebai | 8 minutes
The film is a docufiction inspired by the October 7th war between Israel and Gaza. In it, a Tunisian director attempts to make a film about the atrocity of the war against the Palestinians but feels powerless in the face of the war's brutality.
There Are So Many Things Still to Say (Original title: Il y a tant de choses encore à raconter) (1997)
Origin: Syria, France | Documentary | Director: Omar Amiralay | 52 minutes
A few months before dying of cancer, Syrian dramatist Saadallah Wannous engages with his friend Omar Amiralay in a long conversation on the question of Palestine and the Arab-Israeli conflict