Palestinian Territory Movies

Using only rare archival and newsreel footage, this film tells the story of Palestine from the nineteenth century through current times.

After fifteen years of imprisonment, Ziad struggles to adjust to modern Palestinian life as the hero everyone hails him to be. Unable to distinguish...

Beneath deafening bombs and in tunnels on the brink of collapse, we follow four Palestinian tunnel workers burrowing under the Gaza strip. Six feet ...

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

The news is full of images of overcrowded boats and vast tent camps. But how much do we really know about what refugees are going through? Notes on...

Between the uprising of 2000, the Dignity Uprising of 2021, and the war on Gaza in 2023, the specter of fear looms over Palestine, deeply ingrained...

Documentary animation exploring the war from children’s perspective as they write their names on their bodies for identification in case they...

Iman, a young newly wed Palestinian bride, is arrested and incarcerated in a top-security Israeli prison where she gives birth to a baby boy. As she...

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...

Yazan is a Palestinian filmmaker, born and raised in a Syrian refugee camp. When he gets a residency in Paris to write his first feature, it’s...

On the eve of the Israeli attack on Egypt in 1956, Israel declares martial law in all the occupied Arab territories without any previous notice. When...

Centers on the 10th-century princess and poet from Balkh, located in modern-day northern Afghanistan.

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

Khaled (12), a Palestinian boy is on his way to visit the sea for the first time in his life, at the checkpoint, the Israeli authorities deny his...

Tareq Samhan, a former fighter with the Al-Qassam Armed Forces (Hamas), is released after 13 years in prison. Tareq's story and the images captured...

Living in Norway, filmmaker Mohamed Jabaly stays connected to his family in Gaza through a fragile internet connection, turning that digital space...

This film travels over open books, looted objects and postcards to look for the imperial foundations of the world in which we live. Within this wide...

Saif Hammash uses archival sound as a lead to the moving images in his film, creating a narrative about livelihood, destruction, and survival. With...