Palestinian Territory Movies

Samer lives in Ramallah in the West Bank. His family lives in Gaza, one hour away. They have not seen each other for six years. When Mustafa went...

A documentary on the Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani, who died July 8th, 1972 after American and Israeli intelligence services placed explosives...

A juxtaposition of video, photography, and paintings intercut with an artist working on a painting that is completed at the end of the film.

A rag-tag team of 44 international peace activists board two ramshackle fishing boats in Cyprus, determined to sail to Gaza to break Israel's illegal...

Palestinians are fighting annihilation in maternity clinics, too. Like many wives of prisoners in Israeli jails, Hind is trying to smuggle her...

Living in Norway, filmmaker Mohamed Jabaly stays connected to his family in Gaza through a fragile internet connection, turning that digital space...

Ismail, a Palestinian director long denied the freedom to travel, finally sets out on a journey tracing the path Christ walked two thousand years...

An evocative lyrical and visual tribute to the life of late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, this thoughtful film by director Nasri Hajjaj takes us...

Ahmad Abu-Amsha is a musician and father of five living through the upheaval of war in Gaza. After repeated displacement, he returned to find his...

"Nothing can be heard anymore; the roar of our plane absorbs every other sound. We are heading straight to the world's biggest display of soundproof...

Originally presented as an installation, this raw, haunting short by Basma al-Sharif depicts a horse ride at dusk on a farm in Gaza through...

Using layered, painterly animation and abstracted imagery of military vehicles, the film reflects on the relentless machinery of war and genocide and...

Nawal moved to Berlin from the West Bank to establish a life away from occupation, leaving behind her mother, an Israeli activist living in the West...

Tomorrow, again stages a dysfunctional news broadcast consisting of different segments which recreate and react to various prominent daily...

Amid Gaza's ruins, Aws Al-Banna and three young girls escape into a play; where trauma is real, but hope still speaks.

The idea for this film emerged from our determination to never forget this situation, which compelled us to decide to create this documentary. We...

One of 13 short films produced by the Palestinian Filmmakers’ Collective in the omnibus collection Palestine, Summer 2006.

In a valley veiled by fog and tribal codes, two sisters walk into the night not as daughters, but as offerings— where blood, memory, and...

The film tells the story of Maha Abu Ammouneh, a displaced mother who, in the heart of genocide, becomes a mother, teacher, doctor, and refuge,...

Gaza December 7, 2023 - “As a hand rises on the brink of death and shipwreck…”, poet Reefat Alareer appeals one last time to love.