Palestinian Territory Movies

Material filmed during and after the battle of Amman, in September 1970. The images document the rubble after the bombings, showing displaced people...

This film is about a child living in a tent whose candle blows out in a gust of wind. He doesn’t like the dark, so he tries to think what to...

A poetry film that draws comparisons between haflat shabab (Palestinian bachelor parties), Oakland California's illegal rave scene, and the Israeli...

“I have a game I enjoy playing with kids, called ‘What do you see that isn’t what it is but you believe it is?’. We randomly...

In 1973, Shirak directed this short film in which the games of Palestinian children increasingly merge with warfare. Remnants of combat, such as...

Samira Badran is a Palestinian artist living in Spain. in 2002 I was invited to participate in a conference in Barcelona where I met Samira and she...

A visual poetry collage reflecting the director's journey as a queer Arab immigrant, exploring identity, belonging, and the aftermath of the Beirut...

The film reflects on past and current forms of dispossession and erasure in Palestine. From indigenous plants that resist uprooting, to ancient...

What is behind Israel's war on Gaza? Why do so many Palestinians support armed struggle? Why are Israel and Hezbollah on the brink of full-scale war?...

In 1958, Palestinians in Nazareth and Umm AL-Fahm rise against military rule inside Israel, reviving a forgotten uprising through the testimony of...

The war of 1948 changed the lives of the Palestinian inhabitants of Jerusalem forever. 'My Jerusalem' is the story of how they were living, what it...

In RPGs (role-playing games), one could say that real life can be rehearsed in a superstitious manner, with supernatural beings and worlds. Since the...

A documentary exploring the phenomenon of child labour in Gaza. The film tells the moving stories of four children, looking into the economic, social...

An ironic and touching moment between a mother and son shot in this short film by Mahdi Baraghithi

HOURIA weaves together the stories of Hattab and his grandmother Yousra to reflect on fluid modes of belonging. Yousra was expelled from her village...

Palestinian Mahmoud Khalil began his studies at the GDR’s German Academy of Film Art in 1976. His diploma film, HEIDIA MOURAD – I AM NOT...

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

War shatters a child's world. With his fish as his only companion, he journeys to the unknown, seeking solace by the sea.