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Omar
2013
Omar is accustomed to dodging surveillance bullets to cross the separation wall to visit his secret love Nadia. But occupied Palestine knows neither simple love nor clear-cut war. On the other side of the wall, the sensitive young baker Omar becomes a freedom fighter who must face painful choices...
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Sleepless Nights
2012
Through the stories of Assaad Shaftari, a former high ranking intelligence officer in a Christian right wing militia, responsible for many killings during the Lebanese Civil War, and Maryam Saiidi, the mother of Maher Kassir, a missing young communist fighter who disappeared in 1982, the film digs...
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The Olive Harvest
2003
Mazen is just out of jail. He was arrested for having set fire to an Israeli settlement that, had it spread, would have destroyed his own village of olive planters. His younger brother, Taher, is in love with beautiful Raeda, but this passion is kept secret because, by tradition, the oldest brother...
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Maria’s Grotto
2007
Four portraits of women, whose lives were dictated by absurd moral codes, Maria’s Grotto is about the issue of honor killings in Palestine. One is wrongly accused of dishonoring her family and then murdered; the second dies after being forced by her brothers to swallow poison; the third survives...
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Fix Me
2009
Suffering from headaches, filmmaker Raed Andoni consults a psychologist, leading to a course of 20 therapy sessions where he explores the individual memories of Palestinians, featuring a colorful array of characters, including members of his own family. In a place so dominated by collective...
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Amreeka
2009
An ever-optimistic Palestinian single mom and her teenage son arrive in small town in Illinois, intent on starting a new life. Do they have what it takes to successfully occupy the heartland?
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Man Without A Cell Phone
2010
Twenty-something Palestinian-Israeli slacker Jawdat just wants to have fun with his friends, talk on his cell phone and find love. Instead, he navigates unconvincing dates with Muslim, Christian and even Jewish girls, and wrestles with the Hebrew college entrance exam. Meanwhile, his curmudgeonly...
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Divine Intervention
2002
The action takes place in mythical Nazareth, the largest urban Arab conglomerate in Israel, with some 60 thousand inhabitants of which some 33% are Christian. Although apparently normal, the city is seething. With his company going bankrupt, a man decides to assume an attitude and put an end to the...
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This Is Not Living
2001
In April, 2001, Alia Arasoughly travelled almost every day along the roads from Ramallah to Jerusalem, through a veritable field of mines, a possible victim, exposed to stray gunfire, to tear gas, or even to any stone thrown by a Palestinian boy. She and her four companions in the team knew that,...
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Paradise Now
2005
Said and Khaled are two Palestinians who have been selected for a suicide attack. They are assigned the mission with time sufficient only to spend one last evening with their respective families that, according to their instructors, must have no inkling as to what is to be. In these that are to be...
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Toque de Recolher
1993
Gaza,1993. Membros de uma família vivem mais um dia de suas vidas num campo de refugiados. O alto-falante de uma patrulha anuncia um toque de recolher e, no campo de refugiados, as portas são fechadas violentamente. Vielas, normalmente repletas, ficam vazias e sem vida e as ruas transformam-se...
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Giraffada
2013
Ziad, a ten-year-old boy living in the West Bank, is so enamoured of the two giraffes at the Qalqilya Zoo that he can communicate with them. Ziad enjoys helping his recently widowed father, Yacine, a veterinarian who works hard to protect the zoo as a haven for animals and for the local children...
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Us, Them and Me
2015
In 2000, with a camera as a companion, the director of this movie, which comes from a Jewish family, lived for a few months in Israel and Palestine. Fifteen years later, in this documentary, he rebuilds his trip.
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Sport
2015
Four filmmakers, Israeli and Palestinian, direct short films of both documentary and fiction on the subject of sport. In five segments, the movie shows a soccer team in Palestine, a young runner who competed at the Olympic Games in London, prisoners who take yoga classes, surfers of an Arab village...
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In the Name of Honor
2015
The film exposes frightening cases of honor killings from India, Jordan and Palestine. Hindu, Muslim and Christian families all share the tragic experiences that wrecked their lives.
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The Idol
2015
Mohammed Assaf, an wedding singer living in Gaza, sets a seemingly impossible goal: to compete on the program Arab Idol.
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The Reports on Sarah and Saleem
2018
Sarah is married and owns a cafe in West Jerusalem, while Saleem is a Palestinian who lives in the East and works as a deliverer. Despite their differences, they fall in love —it is an illicit romance that can tear their families apart. One night, during a tryst, they are discovered. The plot...
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Chronicle of a Disappearance
1996
In an investigation of the twilight zone between narrative, history and autobiography, the film transgresses the boundaries of many genres and analyze how much the Arab population of Israel is losing their national identity. The characters lead a marginal existence in an occasionally surreal...
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It Must Be Heaven
2019
The director Elia Suleiman stars his own film, a comic saga that investigates the meanings of exile and the search of a home. Palestine, Suleiman leaves his country, seeking a new life. But, wherever he goes, from Paris to New York, Palestine seems to follow him, because something always reminds...
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Between Heaven and Earth
2019
The film revolves around the divorce of a 30 something couple, Salma, a Palestinian from Nazareth, from her husband, Tamer, the son of a famous intellectual revolutionary killed in Beirut. Salma and Tamer have been married for the past five years and living in the Palestinian territory. In the...
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Mediterranean Fever
2022
Waleed is 40 years old. He lives in Haifa with his wife and children and dreams of a writing career while suffering from chronic depression. He develops a close relationship with his neighbor, a small-time crook, with an ulterior plot in mind. While the scheme turns into an unexpected friendship...
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A Gaza Weekend
2022
Israel is sealed off after the outbreak of a deadly virus and Gaza has become the safest place in the region, leaving a British journalist and his Israeli girlfriend trapped on the wrong side of the border. With no one else to turn to, they must entrust two Palestinian street merchants who promise...
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Fertile Memory
1980
Written in 1978, this was the first film to be made by a Palestinian director inside Israel’s pre-1967 borders. Neither documentary nor feature film, “Fertile Memory” recounts the lives of two very different Palestinian women: Farah Hatoum, a widow living with her children and grandchildren,...
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Wedding in Galilee
1987
This is the first Palestinian feature film made in Palestine by a Palestinian director. It is a lyrical, passionate tale of a Palestinian wedding that takes place in an occupied village, and the contemporary tensions, contradictions and hostilities that surround it. The elder of the village, an old...
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