Palestinian Territory Movies

A clinically dystopian, yet humorous approach to the deadlock in the Middle East.

Struggling with both the occupation and the pandemic, a woman left alone with her son insists on having a semblance of normalcy by baking a cake to...

The Via Dolorosa is a historic street in the heart of the Old City of Jerusalem, revered as the path that Jesus Christ took on his way to his...

In this interview, illustrated with these works and with other key installations including Socle du Monde and Corps étranger, Mona Hatoum...

17-year-old Adva goes on a night journey from her life in a West Bank settlement to fulfil her fantasy of kissing and fucking a woman.

In Jerusalem, Kamal, a 60-year-old Palestinian man, is ordered by an Israeli court to pay a large social security debt allegedly owed by his son...

Elissa's life takes a turn when she meets a mysterious man in her English class and she has to quickly decide between her family and him- and going...

While struggling to understand his place as a second generation Jordanian–born Palestinian, Abood's uncle returns from Canada with stories of...

In a cotton-farming village in Sudan, teenage Nafisa is raised on heroic tales of battling British colonizers told by her grandmother, the village...

Chronicle of a Disappearance unfolds in a series of seemingly unconnected cinematic tableaux, each of them focused on incidents or characters which...

When Nadine hears about her best friend’s fear of an unwanted pregnancy, she takes the lead of the rescue. Together they embark on a...

Gaza 36mm is the interpretation of a reality that excels the game of death more than the game of life. It is a small window through which Gaza had...

They Break the Tree of Peace explores the reality of life under military occupation in Masafer Yatta, documenting the violence, intimidation, and...

The affair of a married Palestinian man and a married Israeli woman in Jerusalem takes a dangerous political dimension when they are spotted in the...

In Independence, Hassan makes his interviewees uncomfortable; but in Invasion, he makes his audience squirm in their seats as well. This isn’t...

A young father has to help his son out of a petty conflict with the neighbors. As the parents of each respective family are summoned to discuss the...

Two young boys run away from their mother’s protection and slack line on the danger of war to play music with the instrument they always dreamt...

A Palestinian girl of 17 who wants to get married to the man of her own choosing. Rana wakes up one morning to an ultimatum delivered by her father:...

After Saleem is released from prison after twenty years, he stays alone at home, haunted by nightmares, while Cosette tries to reconnect with him and...

Drawing on the Arab heritage of oral tradition and mosaic pattern, Leila and the Wolves is an exploration of the collective memory of Arab women and...