Welcome to the Palestine Cinema movie database


The Wall (al-Jidar) (2018)
Origin: Palestine | Fiction | Director: Mira Sidawi | ? minutes
Four teenage refugees, training as journalists in a Lebanese camp, hatch a crazy plan to make a film that will convince an international aging rock band to reunite and play a concert in their camp


The Wanted 18 (2014)
Origin: Canada | Palestine | France | Documentary | Director: Paul Cowan, Amer Shomali | 75 minutes
Directors Amer Shomali and Paul Cowan recreate an astonishing true story: the Israeli army's pursuit of eighteen cows, whose independent milk production on a Palestinian collective farm was declared a threat to the national security of the state of Israel


The War Around Us (2012)
Origin: USA | Palestine | Documentary | Director: Abdallah Omeish | 75 minutes
True story of the only two international journalists on the ground in Gaza as Israel bombarded and invaded in 2008-9 in ‘Operation Cast Lead.’

The Way back home (2006)
Origin: Unknown | Documentary | Director: Ghada Terawi | 33 minutes
The film is a trip in the lives of three Palestinians


The Way Home (2020)
Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Layan Nairoukh and Noor Hanania | 14 minutes
Sophie (9 years old) is the last student left at school one afternoon. The story follows her as she struggles with her need to go to the bathroom when she finds the door is locked.


The Well (al-Bier) (2011)
Origin: Unknown | Fiction | Director: Ahmad Habash | 15 minutes
During the 1948 war, a day after the massacre that shocked the region, an elderly man meets a young father and son running for their lives


The West Bank's Unseen Conflict: Palestinians Documenting Israeli Violence (2013)
Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Paul Moreira | 84 minutes
The daily war of the Israeli settlers against their Palestinian neighbours and the struggle of a new generation of Palestinians fighting back with videa cameras.

The White Elephant (2018)
Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Shuruq Harb | 12 minutes
Portrait of a Palestinian teenager in the 1990s, in the mirror of Israeli pop culture


The Women next door (1992)
Origin: Israel USA | Documentary | Director: Michal Aviad | 80 minutes
A thoughtful and emotive documentary about women in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict


They came from the east (2004)
Origin: Unknown | Fiction | Director: Najwa Najjar | 3 minutes
Three young Palestinian women follow a star through the Palestinian countryside