Palestinian Territory Movies

What drives a young, well-educated Westerner to volunteer as a “peace activist” in the Middle East? Caiomhe Butterly is one of a growing...

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

For the first time in decades, an exile arrives in Palestine and enters his family home. His mission is to recollect and liquidate remnants of the...

Robert Lachmann was a German-Jewish ethnomusicologist. In the 1930s, his radio show "Oriental Music" explored the musical traditions of Palestine and...

Traces the five-minute walk that Iyad Hallaq, a disabled boy, would take from his family’s home to the special needs institute where he...

An inter-generational discovery journey of a book seller and his nephew who are made to smuggle books in the face of Israel's ongoing oppression of...

Despite Israeli incursions into Jenin, Mahmoud and his young actors are staging a play they hope to perform abroad. Since October 7, Israeli assaults...

The exodus of Palestinian refugees in Jordan after the Six Day War and King Hussein's intervention at the United Nations assembly.

Khaled, the hardworking student, makes his way through the tents, markets and ruins to his non-existent school and ends up sitting with his school...

Sisters-in-law Nabila and Sham tell a story about women, marriage and desire during occupation. As the men disappear, the women must confront...

A freedom fighter's journey from armed resistance to cultural resistance.

A meditation on love and longing - the love of family and longing for home, contemplated through overcoming the trauma of losing the family home and...

The small details of daily life are often the most telling. This moving visual and sonic portrait, "Sounds of Gaza", captures the heartbeat of a...

A production for the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

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

"Write Down, I am an Arab" tells the story of Mahmoud Darwish, the Palestinian national poet and one of the most influential writers of the Arab...

Assassinated Lebanese intellectual Mahdi Amel — often dubbed “the Arab Gramsci” — famously said: “He who resists is...

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

An Israeli family's equilibrium gradually disintegrates as a mysterious sound is heard every evening at the door of their apartment.