Palestinian Territory Movies

Iraqi writer and director Kassem Hawal’s 24 minute film Our Small Houses is one of the few surviving works made by the cinema group Hawal...

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine spokesman Ghassan Kanafani interviewed by Richard Carleton, Beirut 1970.

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

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

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

A tough journey with a Bedouin group across the Sinai Peninsula, far from habitation. Everything seems to take place outside political and historical...

First film by artist and filmmaker Emily Jacir.

A fascinating account of the beliefs and motives of notorious hijacker Leila Khaled. The charismatic freedom fighter talks candidly about her methods...

During the first Palestinian Intifada, or uprising, that began in December 1987, Palestinian-American filmmaker Tony Kandah made the documentary...

A Palestinian filmmaker is commissioned by an American organisation to make a documentary film, which is to depict Jerusalem as a city of peace and...

In the shadow of the disengagement from Gaza, west from Ramallah, a new city is under construction, Kiriyat Sefer. In the early hours of the morning,...

Eight brave individuals strive to expose the unjust mechanisms of control that the state of Israel uses to subjugate and silence Palestinians. In...

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

In July 2002, the French illustrator Daniel Maja was invited to Ramallah and Gaza to develop a project for art schools in Palestine, despite the fact...

Produced by the Iraqi Cinema and Theatre Institute, this short fiction film was made as a melody for resistance. With no dialogue, and no character...

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

Cowboy uses the images from American cinema to expose the country’s settler colonial structure and its ability to depict genocidal acts through...

The Palestine Broadcasting Service was created in 1936 by the British mandate to rally the Arab populations to colonial policy. Through its...

On the night before her heart operation in the hospital, a grandmother from Aleppo opens the doors of memory for her Palestinian granddaughter to...

A twelve year-old boy aspires to become a news reporter.