Welcome to the Palestine Cinema movie database
A Fidai Film (2024)
Origin: Palestine, Germany, Qatar, Brazil, France | Documentary | Director: Kamal Aljafari | 78 minutes
This documentary makes visible materials hidden in Israeli archives, and proposes a counter-narrative of a continuous history of appropriation.
Aftermath (1967)
Origin: US | Documentary | Director: Samir Hissen | 28 minutes
Aftermath documents UNRWA’s response to the Six Day War in 1967, where Palestinian people were displaced and dispossessed yet again nearly 20 years after the Nakba in 1948.
After the sunset (2017)
Origin: Denmark | Documentary | Director: Elia Ghorbia | 11 minutes
About the feelings family and relatives are left with after an honor killing
Against the Wall (2013)
Origin: Qatar | Documentary | Director: Ayed Nabaa | 48 minutes
Israel’s separation wall is 700 kilometres long, stretching from the northern West Bank to its southern tip. We meet the activists using non-violent resistance to oppose the construction of Israel's separation wall.
A Gaza weekend (2022)
Origin: Palestine, UK | Fiction | Director: Basil Khalil | 103 minutes
A comedy-adventure set against the backdrop of a sealed-off Israel
A Handful of earth (2009)
Origin: Unknown | Documentary | Director: Sahera Dirbas | 52 minutes
A Handful of Earth examines the role played by oral histories in maintaining the bond between Palestinian refugees and the homes from which they were driven in 1948
Ahed's Knee (2021)
Origin: Israel | Fiction | Director: Nadav Lapid | 109 minutes
A famous Israeli filmmaker struggles against the loss of freedom in his country
Ahmad Alive (2024)
Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Xan Oser & Ahmad Ghunaim | 37 minutes
“Ahmad Alive” is the harrowing story of Gazan travel vlogger, Ahmad Ghunaim. Ahmad never aspired to be a war correspondent, but after October 7th, with foreign journalists banned from Gaza, he needed to show the world what was happening.
A home on a rainbow (2015)
Origin: Lebanon | Documentary | Director: Rami Nihawi, Lina Alabed and Nadim Deaibes | 15 minutes
The inhabitants of “Al Marj” refugee camp located in the Bikaa Valley, fled from different regions in Syria to Lebanon, where the authorities granted them only 5 days to dismantle their laboriously built tents, without offering any alternative option
A House in Jerusalem (1998)
Origin: Israel | France | Documentary | Director: Amos Gitai | 90 minutes
Can a house be a metaphor for Arab-Jewish relations in Israel?