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...

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

A helicopter sweeps the desert, surveying a land at once ancient and modern, natural and built. Farmers work their fields, children play and bells...

Julie and Waleed, two kids on the cusp of their teenage years, escape the pressures of societal and political noise in Palestine, embarking on a...

From the personal photo album of Palestinian photographer and cinematographer, Hani Jawherieh, El Hassan reconstructs the last five minutes of Hani...

In Jerusalem, a young poet wanders home through the nationalist Flag March. At home, he writes a poem under the thunder of Iranian rockets.

“Eid” follows two Palestinian women who are unable to visit their son’s graves Eid explores the impact of borders and restrictive...

Operation « Rainbow » resulted in the death and wounding of many residents of Gaza. Director Abdel Salam Shehadeh tells the story of the...

Piecing together the powerful testimonies of Bedouin women fighting to preserve their culture and history, we move between fragmented representations...

Nearly 10 years after the beginning of the Syrian revolution, three Syrian activists – Yadan, Odai and Rani – reunite on a theatre stage...

“A land without a people, and a people without a land” is how the relationship between Palestine and the Jewish people was described by...

A stand-up comedian in Gaza borrows from the daily struggles of survival to bring solace to a wounded audience in a refugee camp.

A woman drives her car around Jerusalem, asking Israelis for directions to Ramallah. She receives contradictory answers. A World Apart Within 15...

In a land ripe in history and religion, Israelis and Palestinians face turmoil every day of their lives. Circles in the Desert documents the struggle...

A Palestinian refugee visiting his ruined village is documented in an Israeli film. Amazingly, out of pure coincidence the same person is filmed...

This inspired hybrid of documentary and fiction follows Jabir, who runs a mobile cinema from his old truck throughout the West Bank while his wife...

Dig through photojournalist Mahfouz Abu Turk’s memories and archives, where he thoroughly documented his experiences in Jerusalem and the West...

Prisoner follows the story of a son, Adam (12 years old), who comes to realize, as he enters adolescence, that the imprisonment of his father, Saeed,...

The voice of a new generation rocks and rhymes as Palestinian rappers form alternative voices of resistance within the Israeli-Palestinian struggle.

This one-hour journalistic exploration by acclaimed documentary filmmaker Shelley Saywell takes the viewer beyond the headlines and into the...