Palestinian Territories Movies

Israeli tanks and bulldozers demolish a house that has been lived in and cherished for many years, and rip out the roots of an olive tree that was pla...

Hirbawi Textiles is the last-remaining factory in Palestine that produces the iconic Palestinian scarf known as the Kuffiyeh.

Palestine in the Eye chronicles the profound impact of Hani Jawharieh’s death for the PLO Film Unit. The film reflects on his life through interviews...

Team Gaza records the lives of four young football players daring to dream in Gaza, a land strip sealed off from the outside world.

A young Palestinian living in a refugee camp in 1949 struggles to escape the imminent death when him and his little brother heedlessly enter a minefie...

Single-screen version of Emily Jacir's installation work, WE ATE THE WIND. 2023, 31 min, digital.

Reflecting on the relationship between native plants and people, the film looks at the sumac plant (from staghorn sumac),which is native to parts of...

Intent on making a film, a group of resourceful young boys don't let limited resources stand in their way.

A short documentary film of 16 minutes that presents the searching phase that the director of the film went through after her interrogation and arrest...

In this short documentary, the Forensic Architecture research group reconstructs the death of the Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. W...

Commissioned by the Locarno Film Festival for its 75th anniversary, 11 international filmmakers were invited to create a ‘Postcard from the Future’ fr...

The Time that Separates Us circles an ancient salt-rock formation overlooking the Dead Sea, near Ghor Al-Safi, Jordan. In the process, this Pillar of...

Despite the harsh reality of occupation, a young couple from Ramallah find ways of crossing conventional boundaries and celebrate life even under the...

Syrian-Palestinian film The Knife (1971),based on Palestinian revolutionary Ghassan Kanafani‘s novella All That’s Left To You; an allegorical story o...

This is a live performance shot by smartphones and was taken at Ben Gurion International Airport while on the way back from abroad. Thru the act the a...

The lemon tree has become a symbol of Palestinian resistance against Israeli occupation, much like the cactus and olive tree, embodying a politically...

By using images drawn by Palestinian children between the ages of 9 and 12, ‘Drawing for Better Dreams’ takes us to the Occupied Territories and into...

The film explores the critical stance of ‘folklore’ as a source of knowledge and its possible connection to alternative social and representational mo...

Performative video with an embodiment of Palestinian educator and Arab nationalist, Khalil Al Sakakini, who wrote his diaries since 1907