Palestine Film Index - Google Drive

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4	Al Quds	1968	16:36	Vladimir Tamari	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn-nTCLTdCI			A short film made by Vladimir Tamari following the first anniversary of the occupation of Arab Jerusalem by the Israeli army at the start of the Arab Israeli War on June 5, 1967. Using footage from UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees) cinema archives where he worked as a technician, Tamari edited this film and organized its narration and addition of music by his friends, all volunteers and amateurs as he was, in order to express the feelings of the Palestinians at the loss of their capital city and center of their spiritual, commercial and intellectual life.	English
5	Exodus	1968	12:35	Ali Siam	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXKWHZQhT4A			The exodus of Palestinian refugees in Jordan after the Six Day War and King Hussein's intervention at the United Nations assembly.	English
6	Jerusalem The Flower of All Cities	1969	7:55	Ali Siam	full film	https://vimeo.com/512517726			Set to the famous song by Fairouz, Flower of All Cities, a harmonious picture of Palestinian civil life in Jerusalem is disturbed by the Israeli army’s occupation of the city following the 1967 war. A rare example of the work of Hani Jawharieh, one of founding fathers of Palestinian cinema.	Arabic	English
7	Far Away From Home	1969	11:06	Qais Al-Zubaidi	full film	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dyGusDWSYP6d-istYncAPlbCN3BcccSQ/			A film documenting Al-Sabineh camp for Palestinian refugees in Syria, with an unprecedented experience at the time, as he took the children after filming to show them the footage he filmed of them, the camp and its people, and recorded their reactions, laughter and speech, and added them to the film.	Arabic	n/a
8	Biladi: A Revolution	1970	50:47	Francis Reusser and Jean-Pierre Garnier	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGhz8axe-sU			Zürich was snowed under on February 18, 1969. In the afternoon, a white VW stops at a parking space on the edge of Kloten Airport. Three men and one woman, activists of the PFLP-People's Front for the Liberation of Palestine, are inside. Around 5.30 pm, a Boeing 720 B of the Israeli company El Al is in front of the vehicle, waiting to take off for Tel Aviv. Two activists then get out of the VW and fire automatic weapons towards the cockpit: six passengers are wounded, the pilot will die 5 weeks later in a hospital in Zurich. The Israeli security guard on board manages to get out of the plane and cross the fence that separates it from the Palestinians. He shoots and kills one of the PFLP militants.The Israeli officer and the Palestinian commando are arrested. The Swiss authorities "strongly condemn" the actions of the assassins. December 1969, end of the trial: the three Palestinian militants are sentenced to 12 years in prison, the Mossad officer is acquitted. Demonstrations follow in Switzerland. A rift is formed between pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian activists. Switzerland is accused of siding with Israel. Shocked by this situation, Francis Reusser, a filmmaker, and Jean-Pierre Garnier, a young director at TSR, contact the head of Fatah in Geneva. He is willing to support an information project - a report and a film - carried out with Fatah activists in the refugee camps in Jordan. Francis Reusser on camera, Jean-Pierre Garnier on sound and Armand Deriaz as photographer fly to Jordan at the beginning of April 1970.
9	Wabadate	1970	7:32	unknown	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBuSiHlXQtc			Material filmed during and after the battle of Amman, in September 1970. The images document the rubble after the bombings, showing displaced people in the hall of a building, among the ruins, inside schools, while they are being treated . Some moments of a Yasser Arafat rally are also filmed.	n/a	n/a		.
10	The Long March Back	1970	32:19	Ugo Adilardi - Carlo Schellino - Paolo Sornaga	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHq4l-__YJE			The documentary addresses the problem of the Palestinian people from its historical origins, to the social situation that characterizes it, to the forms of struggle to achieve their liberation. In particular, the film - through footage taken in the Jordan Valley, in refugee camps, in the cities and countryside of Jordan - describes the organization and function of one of the components of the Palestinian Resistance, the Popular Democratic Front. The phases of military training that the Front imparts to its militants, the guerrilla actions it conducts, its relations with the Arab masses, the characteristics of its political intervention are shown.	Italian	variable (check notes)	to enable english subtitles go to cc (closed captions) in the settings of the youtube player and select autotranslate to english	.
11	Ghassan Kanafani interview	1970	6:56	unknown	full film	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1F4VpuK5PxffK1Pggvr5Z_2Kr3YESPvVb			Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine spokesman Ghassan Kanafani interviewed by Richard Carleton, Beirut 1970.	English
12	Al Fatah	1970	1:19:14	Luigi Perelli	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93rpCT2uMu0			A film that sheds light on the Fatah movement and attempts to present a comprehensive picture of it and its leader, Yasser Arafat - Abu Ammar. It presents a daily experience of the refugee activities in the camps, the military training of the guerrillas, and deals with the battle of dignity.	Italian		no english subtitles currently available. please get in touch with us if you would like to provide some for the original italian	.
13	Red Army/PFLP Declaration of World War	1971	1:09:28	Masao Adachi	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy-RdeRE_Ss		Adachi Masao Screening Committee	On their way back from Cannes Film Festival in 1971, filmmakers Wakamatsu Koji and Adachi Masao visited Lebanon to meet the Japan's Red Army faction and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine to shoot a propaganda newsreel film promoting the Palestinian resistance. Conceived as a ‘declaration of world war’ that implicates us all, the co-directors capture the everyday banality of military training and preparation exercises for imminent battle. The juxtaposition of the slow-paced ‘landscape theory’-infused style with the militant language of the declaration expresses the charged tension that revolutionary struggle brings about. Before leaving Japan to participate full-time in the Palestinian resistance, Adachi and his collaborators independently distributed the film across Japan on a Red Bus, bringing together cinema and revolution.	Japanes, Arabic, English	English
14	RESISTANCE-WHY	1971	53:00	Christian Ghazi	full film	contact distributor for link & password		Nadi Lekol Nas, nadilekolnas@gmail.com	This gem of militant guerilla third cinema was considered to be lost to the ages. In 1988, militias raided the director’s home and burned all of his celluloid to stay warm during Lebanon’s Civil War. But recently, a copy of Resistance, Why? was found and restored by the Beirut group Nadi Lekol Nas in 2021. Nadi Lekol Nas is a 20-year-old non-profit cultural organization whose mission is to safeguard and transmit a range of cinematographic, musical, and literary productions documenting Levantine artistic and cultural expressions from the 1930s onwards. Today, Resistance, Why? is a fascinating time capsule of an era of Palestinian resistance and global armed struggle against imperialism that echoes through history. Figures include Sadiq Jalal Al-Azm, Ghassan Kanafani, and Nabil Shaath, as they describe the strikes and protests that took place in Palestine starting during the Ottoman occupation, followed by British colonization and the settlement of the Zionist state in 1948. Resistance, Why? is a documentary produced in English –and thus destined for an international public– calling for justice, the right to self-determination, and for the Palestinian people to fight against occupation, Zionism, and imperialism.		Arabic w/English dialogue
15	Palestine - Denmark, Same Struggle	1972	39:15	Nils Vest	full film	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FtXIRnXEgP8A3bpu5YzFvfxq7Z1fdlrM/		https://www.dfi.dk/en/viden-om-film/filmdatabasen/film/palaestina-danmark-samme-kamp	About the history of Palestine, about the Jews in Europe, Zionism and anti-Semitism, and about the colonization that brought about the foundation of Israel. About the economic interests behind the colonization and how many Jews support the Palestinian resistance movement. Examples are given of Danish news coverage in the Middle East. A forerunner to AN OPPRESSED PEOPLE IS ALWAYS RIGHT.	Danish, Arabic, English	English (check notes)	to enable English subtitles, download file and play in vlc with subtitle track set to 1 (English)	.
16	The Knife	1972	87:00	Khaled Hamada	full film	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jzNvw6flhgLuHUvwS1H0Zdu62uq8xBdp/view?usp=sharing			“Ghassan Kanafani’s novella ‘All That’s Left to You’ (1966) is perhaps one of the most significant Palestinian texts, navigating an abstract symbology of collaboration, violation, and resistance in Gaza. Its adaptation, THE KNIFE, is a largely-unseen and necessarily contingent film. Produced under the auspices of the Syrian General Cinema Organization (GCO), just as Tewfiq Saleh’s THE DUPES (1973), it too changes the end of its originating Kanafani text, in this case flattening it. What results then is a morass of Arab reaction, at once ghostly beach pastoral and nightmarish bedroom narrative, unfinished and elliptical.” –Kaleem Hawa	Arabic	English
17	The Visit	1972	9:25	Qais Al-Zubaidi	full film	https://youtu.be/0AWyDXpU8BA		Nadi Lekol Nas, nadilekolnas@gmail.com	An oneiric film poem about a murder in occupied Palestine, in which Qais Al-Zubaidi used drawing, poetry, music, phonograph and pantomime with his technical virtuosity and formal expressionism. Featuring poetry from Mahmoud Darwish, Samih al-Qasim, and Tawfiq Ziad.	Arabic	English
18	The Dupes	1972	1:46:24	Tewfik Saleh	full film	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GsAtI1-ipEMZ44PGVnjSG75ER5XR0fO9/		info@arabfilm.com	The Dupes is a stark, beautifully photographed black and white film tracing the destinies of three Palestinian refugees brought together by dispossession, despair and hope for a better future. The setting is Iraq in the 1950s and the protagonists, concealed in the steel tank of a truck, are trying to make their way across the border into Kuwait, the "promised land." A masterful adaptation of Ghassan Kanafani's acclaimed novella, Men Under the Sun, The Dupes is also one of the first Arab films to address the Palestinian predicament.	Arabic	English
19	Hundred Faces for a Single Day	1972	1:07:08	Christian Ghazi	full film	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b7wmY0zmC7Kqzqb-epu8IaF6NJBW0nWM/		Nadi Lekol Nas, nadilekolnas@gmail.com	Rejecting all propagandistic or narrative convention, Ghazi combined documentary and abstract sequences with a series of discontinuous plot linesto organize an attack on the bourgeois decadence of Beirut’s political milieu.	Arabic	English
20	Revolution Until Victory a.k.a. We Are the Palestinian People (Newsreel #65)	1973	51:15	Newsreel Collective	full film	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-06NJZ3-rZ6xZvRMCGfdZQaIlugPJjvE/view?usp=sharing		https://www.twn.org/catalog/pages/responsive/cpage.aspx?rec=1471&card=price	Filmed in Palestine by Newsreel, REVOLUTION UNTIL VICTORY shows the refugee camps of the Middle East, the rise of the Palestinian Liberation Movement and Israel's relation ship to the Western imperialism. There is footage of the guerrillas in training, and interviews with Palestinian leaders and militants who work in many programs of the liberation struggle of the time.	English, Arabic	English
21	Scenes of the Occupation from Gaza	1973	13:44	Mustafa Abu Ali	full film	https://youtu.be/1JlIwmnYnlE		info@idiomsfilm.com	A rare film by the legendary filmmaker Mustafa Abu Ali, one of the founders of the Palestine Film Unit, the first filmic arm of the Palestinian revolution. Shot by a French news team, the footage was edited by Mustafa in Lebanon to produce one of the earliest films on the occupied territory in Gaza. Scenes of the Occupation from Gaza employs experimental editing tech- niques to produce a cinematically and politically subversive film. The film won the prize as best film at the Damascus Film Festival in 1973 and was screened at multiple festivals. It was the only film produced by the Palestine Cinema Group, which in 1974 became the Palestine Cinema Institute.	Arabic	English
22	The Urgent Call of Palestine	1973	3:55	Ismail Shammout	full film	https://youtu.be/KJXhXrCg5Ys			In this short film, Shammout records a solidarity song by the Palestinian Egyptian singer Zeinab Shaath announcing the urgent call of Palestine. The song is punctuated by the words of poet Kamal Nasser, which continue to hold striking relevance today.	English
23	The Rifles will not be Silent	1973	25:45	Kassem Hawal	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-WwZ97tGYw			An important documentary based on a speech by Comrade George Habash, the Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine on the first anniversary of the Martyrdom of Comrade Ghassan Kanafani. Through this speech the film shows the political position of the Front and the position of the masses towards the question of proposed settlement, as well as the role of the masses in pursuing the armed struggle against the imperialist-Zionist-reactionary enemy.	Arabic	n/a	needs subtitling asap
24	Quneitra 74	1974	19:55	Mohammad Malas	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa5LYgBcOr0
25	Our Small Houses	1974	23:04	Kassem Hawal	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnYRnpANvPg			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 founded and led under the Central Information Committee of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Badly damaged and often overlooked in histories of revolutionary film, it combines lucid Marxist-Leninist analyses with striking montage techniques.	Arabic	English	subtitles are unfortunately partially obscured by the timecode in the botton of the video	.
26	They Do Not Exist	1974	25:59	Mustafa Abu Ali	full film	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1z8FTr8UzqKujhcQKfvaHvz_OP4iYRR3I/			Salvaged from the ruins of Beirut after 1982, Abu Ali's early film has only recently been made available. Shooting under extraordinary conditions, the director, who worked with Godard on his Ici et Ailleurs (Here and Elsewhere), and founded the PLO's film division, covers conditions in Lebanon's refugee camps, the effects of Israeli bombardments, and the lives of guerrillas in training camps. They Do Not Exist is a stylistically unique work which demonstrates the intersection between the political and the aesthetic. Now recognised as a cornerstone in the development of Palestinian cinema, the film only received its Palestine premiere in 2003, when a group of Palestinian artists "smuggled" the director to a makeshift cinema in his hometown of Jerusalem (into which Israel bars his entry). Abu Ali, who saw his film for the first time in 20 years at this clandestine event noted: "We used to say 'Art for the Struggle', now it's 'Struggle for the Art'"	Arabic	English
27	The Palestinians	1974	42:58	Johan van der Keuken	full film	https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_-FFRNRmaIZIKMERK2vKR7Q6PJG12WyJ			Starting from the economically opportunistic backing of the Zionist project, the director delivers a nuanced account of the complexities surrounding the ‘Palestinian issue’, touching most vitally on the global interests and fluxes of oil, in whose name one people is displaced and persecuted while another is hypocritically ‘defended’.” Celluloid Liberation Front	Dutch, Arabic	English
28	An Oppressed People Is Always Right	1974	44:17	Nils Vest	full film	https://vimeo.com/207848909		https://www.dfi.dk/en/viden-om-film/filmdatabasen/film/et-undertrykt-folk-har-altid-ret	The Palestine-Israel conflict as it appeared to the Palestinians in Lebanon - described by film director Nils Vest in 1974.	English, Arabic	English
29	Palestinian Women	1974	10:09	Jocelyne Saab	full film	https://drive.google.com/file/d/14XvNmO8Mfj6YLKcWtQ3ilgEccdTUJlN6		https://jocelynesaab.org/	Palestinian women, the often-forgotten victims of the Israeli-Palestinian war, are here given a voice by Jocelyne Saab. The film was commissioned by Antenne 2 (France), but it was censured while still in the editing stage and never shown.	Arabic, French	English
30	Glows of Memories	1975	10:57	Ismail Shammout	full film	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GB54SrJ-asywTuhzfX8O9IeRDizWHi2f/			Ismail Shammout, a Palestinian painter, also served as director of the Cultural Arts Section of the PLO and worked with the organization’s Film Unit in the 1970s. In this one of his few film works he unravels the memories within his painting Memories and Fire.	Silent	Silent
31	Kafr Qasim	1975	1:48:38	Borhane Alaouié	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU8C-WbOOgM		https://www.borhanealaouie.com/contact/	On an October afternoon in 1956, with the Sinai campaign about to be launched, Israeli border police imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew on Arab villages near the Jordanian border. Arriving at their homes after work, many villages of Kafr Kassem were unaware of their violation of the newly announced curfew. Forty-seven of these Israeli Arabs were killed when Israeli troops opened fire on the village. The film reconstructs this much-remembered event in Arab and Israeli history, especially with an eye to detailing the life of the community before it suffered the massacre.	Arabic	English
32	The Memory	1975	12:59	Mohammad Malas	full film	https://youtu.be/Vg_v1Ol9nh0		duniafilm@gmail.com, MEC Films Berlin	The precise portrait of a woman who is present and fey at the same time, who is as tired as she is courageous and who seems to have surrendered and empancipated at once.	Arabic		no English subtitles currently available. please get in touch with us if you would like to provide some for the original Arabic	.
33	The Key	1976	24:07	Ghaleb Sha'ath	full film	https://drive.google.com/file/d/13-r-VNEqyoTKeL1wWcMIQFn_sweMSMCY/			The Key was made by Ghaleb Sha'ath to accompany the Palestine delegation to the 1976 UN Habitat conference in Vancouver. It is the first Palestinian film produced by Samed Cinema Production Foundation.	Arabic	English
34	Beirut, Never Again	1976	34:45	Jocelyne Saab	full film	https://vk.com/video661463933_456239187		https://jocelynesaab.org/	Gunfire and song mix with a poetic voice-over written by the Lebanese writer and painter Etel Adnan (who also wrote a text for Letter from Beirut) in what would become the first entry in Saab’s “Beirut Trilogy”, which searches for traces of life amid the bombed-out buildings and errant fires of a ghost city, where even the children have become soldiers, looters, and scavengers.	English, French, Arabic	English
35	Some of the Palestinians	1976	55:53	Mamoun Hassan	full film	https://vimeo.com/287798260			‘Some of the Palestinians’ – a 55-minute documentary directed and edited by Mamoun Hassan when he was stationed with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in Lebanon in 1974. The film opens with a day in the life of Dr Murad, a Palestinian doctor appointed by the UNRWA to look after the health of the Palestinian people in a Syrian refugee camp. It progresses to a recently bombed camp in Lebanon to the West Bank, via Jordan. The crew members and in Lebanon, the cinematographer, were Palestinians working in UNRWA’s Audio Visual Division, the rest of the film was shot by Ernie Vincze, the distinguished British documentary and feature cinematographer. The final section presents a somewhat more acceptable picture of Palestinian life supported by UNRWA-sponsored humanitarian projects in women’s education and art in Ramallah. This last section was not directed by Mamoun, he explains why… I landed in Beirut with my wife and young family on 19 April 1974 to take up my appointment as Head of Films Branch, UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees). A leftist leader had been assassinated in South Lebanon the previous day and that event is regarded as the start of the civil war. A few days later I drove down to Nabatieh Palestinian refugee camp in South Lebanon to film the consequence of Israeli bombing. The camp had been obliterated. A few days later I filmed the effect of bombing in Rashidieh, a camp further down the coast near Tyre. The brief was to document the services – Housing, Education, Health, Rations – that UNRWA offered the Palestinian refugees. My immediate boss and chief of the AV division was the legendary Myrtle Winter-Chaumeny (writer, photographer, sailor, dancer); the director of Information was John Defrates, the bravest man I have ever met, who was a Navy pilot in the icy waters near Vladivostock during WWll. I was given a fairly free hand but editorial control rested with UNRWA. What I saw in South Lebanon and elsewhere gave me the form of the film: the experience of life in the camps in Lebanon, Syria and Jordan – but not the West Bank because Israel refused me entry. Myrtle filmed that sequence. So the story is about war in Lebanon; life in one the oldest camps near Aleppo established in 1948; work in Baqa’a in Jordan which accommodated thousands of fleeing refugees after the 1967 war; and education in Ramallah. Mamoun is keen for people to view this film. It is a timely reminder that UNRWA’s humanitarian work is not done, despite the decision of the US administration to cut $300 m from its planned annual contribution to the UNRWA budget in 2018. He says, “Since I made this film, everything has changed for the worse for the Palestinian people. The locations for the film are now war zones or something very similar. The tragedy continues.” The restoration was made from an answer print of the edited film. This version did not have English subtitles for spoken Arabic. By referring to the only other known copy – a print held at the National Film Archive – we were able to transfer the subtitles exactly as they appeared on the film, which was invited to the London Film Festival in 1976.	Arabic	English
36	Here and Elsewhere	1976	54:56	Jean-Luc Godard / Jean-Pierre Gorin / Anne-Marie Miéville	full film	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Qp5wNYcNVqKBL81VS19Br1GRxfjO6BbB/			Commissioned by the Arab League to produce a film on the Palestinian Revolution, Godard and Gorin’s plans were upended by the Black September. Godard, now working with Miéville, transformed the original footage into a scathing self-critique—paralleling the lives of a French and a Palestinian family.	Arabic, French	English	to enable English subtitles, download file and play in vlc with subtitle track set to 1 (English)	.
37	L'Olivier	1976	1:32:47	Groupe Cinéma Vincennes	full film	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RghyLnqCG8CBROt6Ew7nAmnGWrxh3QQb/view			L’Olivier responds to a concern French public support for the Palestinian cause is diminishing in the wake of the 1972 Munich operation. Structured to chronicle the Palestinian story and to explain the current chapter in the struggle, the film calls for global militant solidarities and, particularly, for European political engagements.	Arabic, French	English	to enable English subtitles, download file and play in vlc with subtitle track set to 1 (English)	.
38	South Lebanon: The Story of a Village Under Siege	1976	12:40	Jocelyne Saab	full film	https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Zh8Ii3OBmGRUijxhf1wge7PuNhbkOhGB		https://jocelynesaab.org/	The cease-fire declared on October 21, 1976, gave the Fedayeen the opportunity to reclaim this area—Fatah territory until it was abandoned in 1970—from the right wing militia. But Syrians and Israelis joined together to neutralise this Palestinian “autonomous force” and imposed a siege on two Lebanese frontier villages, Hanine and Kfarchouba, before attacking them.	Arabic, French	English
39	Palestine in the Eye	1976	28:33	Mustafa Abu Ali	full film	https://youtu.be/Z5gQaoRtxTg			An homage to the cinematographer Hani Jawhariya of the Palestine Film Unit of the PLO, which contributed significantly to the emergence and body of the films of the Palestinian resistance. Jawhariya was killed in filming in Lebanon. The film is one of the few remaining documents of the work of the Palestine Film Unit. Palestine in the Eye chronicles the profound impact of Hani Jawharia’s death for the PLO Film Unit. The film reflects on his life through interviews with family, colleagues, and his own cinematography, including the moment of his death while filming for the Unit in 1976. Although the film has later been attributed to Mustafa Abu Ali, the Unit’s method of work was to describe everyone as a collective of “workers,” and we see this in the film titles, which collectively list the names of all those who participated as a non-hierarchical collective. Through this reflection on Jawharieh, we are offered an understanding of the workings of the Palestine Film Unit and its international connections	Arabic	English
40	Palestinian Vision	1977	30:30	Adnan Madanat	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gjuw4jj5r6o&t=1s			A short film about Palestinian artist Ibrahim Ghannam.	Arabic	n/a	no english subtitled currently available.
41	‎Because Roots Don't Die	1977	53:07	Nabiha Lotfy	full film	https://youtu.be/1sADEbrEyUA			The story of Tal al-Zaatar camp A group of meetings, dialogues and memories about the martyr camp (Tel Za'tar) and the suffering that the Palestinians faced since the pre-revolutionary period, and the massacre of Ein Rumaneh, and the bloody massacre in Tel al-Zaatar. The film tries to highlight the role of Palestinian women in resistance And revolution.	Arabic		no English subtitles currently available. please get in touch with us if you would like to provide some for the original Arabic	.
42	The Palestinian	1977	2:20:43	Roy Battersby	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZqXkoqSjp8			This film, narrated by Vanessa Redgrave, documents the lives and the struggle of the Palestinian people. It includes interviews with survivors of the siege of Tel Zataar during the Lebanese civil war, and with Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat.	Arabic, English	English
43	Tal al Zaatar	1977	1:28:12	Mustafa Abu Ali , Jean Khalil Chamoun and Pino Adriano	full film	https://vimeo.com/232643202			The film documents the August 12, 1976 massacre of Palestinian and Lebanese refugees at Tall el-Zaatar, a UN-administered refugee camp in northeast Beirut. Produced after the massacre, but featuring footage shot before and during the siege leading up to it, Tall el-Zaatar reconstructs the history of the camp and recounts the long months of assault and resistance through the voices of the many survivors. Tall el-Zaatar was produced in two versions: one in Arabic for the Palestinian Cinema Institution of the PLO in Beirut, and the other dubbed into Italian for TV broadcast. Arabic film prints were damaged and lost following the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the subsequent plundering of PLO archives. Between 2012 and 2014, filmmaker Monica Maurer and artist Emily Jacir rediscovered the rushes of the film, including the original soundtrack in Arabic, which were kept at the Audiovisual Archive of the Democratic and Labour Movement (AAMOD) in Rome. Maurer and Jacir dedicated themselves to salvaging the rushes, restoring and digitizing them in order to make the film available to the public and safeguard these images as part of Palestinian collective memory.	Arabic	English
44	outtakes of Tal Al Zaatar	1977	4:56	Mustafa Abu Ali , Jean Khalil Chamoun and Pino Adriano	full film	https://vimeo.com/72928376			outtakes from the filming of Tal Al Zaatar	n/a	n/a
45	“Porto di Sour” from Tal al Zaatar outtakes	1977	5:52	Mustafa Abu Ali , Jean Khalil Chamoun and Pino Adriano	full film	https://vimeo.com/72977584			outtakes from the filming of Tal Al Zaatar	n/a	n/a
46	Letter From Beirut	1978	48:24	Jocelyne Saab	full film	https://vk.com/video661463933_456239188		https://jocelynesaab.org/	Letter from Beirut documents the filmmaker’s return to Beirut during one of the lulls, three years after the outbreak of the civil war, animated by the urge to return. She is confronted by the physical, emotional and psychological ravages of the war, terrified and sorrowful, she cannot find her place in the city. In that quest, she communicates with everyday people, friends, neighbors, people riding the bus across the city’s eastern and western flanks. To pace her journeying and dramatic unraveling of the film, Saab borrows the guise of a letter read in a voice-over, written by world-renowned poet Etel Adnan. A rare document from the civil war, Letter from Beirut lays bare and spontaneously how people make sense of their everyday in the midst of chaos, violence, terror and sorrow.	English, French, Arabic	English
47	Land Day	1978	39:41	Ghaleb Sha'ath	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KwLFskg624			Land Day is commemorated by Palestinian annually on March 30. On that day in 1976, Palestinian citizens of Israel rebelled against the attempts of the ruling authorities to expropriate and colonize large swathes of their lands around six villages in the Galilee. Palestinians announced a general strike and organized marches in different Arab towns, where violent confrontations with the police erupted resulting in six martyrs amongst the demonstrators. Since then, the 30th of March was marked as a national day in which Palestinians show unity and intention to defend their land and the attachment to their national identity. Yom El Ard recounted the events of that day and documented the first anniversary activities. It features interviews with victims of violence, mayors of the affected villages and shows rarely seen footage of that era. Watching it decades later, one can see how Israeli policy in the Galilee was an earlier version of what it would the military occupation in tandem with the Israeli settler movement would carry out in the West Bank and East Jerusalem over the subsequent decades.	Arabic	n/a
48	The Palestinian Red Crescent Society	1979	42:55	Monica Maurer	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3-61h0Iv1w			Filmed in 16mm during 1978 - to highlight the sophisticated social, medical, educational infrastructure that the PLO built during the 70ies in the refugee camps in Lebanon. The documentary is a cinematographic testimony of the Palestinian effort to build a secular and pluralistic society, based on the participation of the people and thus strengthening their feeling of national identity and dignity. PRCS was shot in practically all the Camps in Lebanon, from Nahar el Bared in the North to Rashidiye in the South, from Nabatiye to Beirut - Sabra, Shatila and Burj-el-Barajneh. Among the personalities in the film are Abu Ammar (Yasser Arafat), Dr. Fathi Arafat (President of PRCS), Dr. Sait Dajani, Yusuf Iraki, Abdelaziz Labadi.	English, Arabic	English		.
49	The Children of Palestine	1979	40:33	Monica Maurer	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXPeQ44emtU			The film - following the UN Declaration of Rights - illustrates that fundamental rights - to life, education, health, home and family - are denied to Palestinian children due to the continuous state of war to which they are exposed. It's was filmed between the end of 1978 and the beginning of 1979 in the Palestinian refugee camps (Shatila, Ain-el-Helouie, Rashidiye) and is also testimony to the social, cultural and health infrastructure that the PLO he built in the fields during the years of the "revolution".	English, Arabic	English		.
50	We Are All For The Fatherland	1979	1:14:22	Maroun Bagdadi	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5tC-vxR2R8			This film gives an account of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon through meetings and interviews with common people and leading personalties from the south of the country. In a satirical twist, We Are All for the Fatherland mixes footage of the war and its ravages with cut scenes of young children trying to sing the Lebanese national anthem amidst armed conflict, military strategies and speeches.	Arabic	English
51	Children Without Childhood	1979	21:21	Khadijeh Habashneh Abu Ali	full film	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oa_KCSAg8qNPdP5PO1ISkdl05_GKkDsP/			Produced by the Palestinian Cinema Institute and the General Union of Palestinian Women, the film revolves around the life of the orphans of Tall Azaatar Martyrs, in “Bait El- Somoud”, the house which was established for them by the GUPW. Through the lives of these children, the film shows the sufferings that Palestinian children endure, in diaspora camps and under the Israeli occupation. The film focuses on the contradiction between the “International Declaration of Child Rights” and the reality of the living conditions of Palestinian children.	Arabic	French	no english subtitles currently available. please get in touch with us if you would like to provide some for the original arabic or french.	.
52	Step by Step	1979	1:08:35	Randa Chahal Sabag	full film	https://vk.com/video661463933_456239182			This film is the result of two years of work, from February 1976 to March 1978. Through its analysis, and through certain documents, it looks beyond the period to grasp at the remote causes of the conflict. It attempts to draft a timeline of events: the dismemberment of Lebanon, the liquidation of the Palestinian movement, the new balance of powers in the Middle East under U.S. rule. The events that resulted from the Israeli occupation of part of Lebanon, and the intervention of the United Nations confirm this. In this sense, the film is not finished, as it endeavored to reflect the ever-evolving reality of a country, and the suffering of a people.	Arabic	English
53	Homeland of Barbed Wire	1980	57:18	Qais Al-Zubaidi	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIXANM9MV8w		nadilekolnas@gmail.com	Directors belonging to the PLO film organisations were barred from entering territories under Israeli administration. Kais Al-Zubaidi sent a West-German film team into the territories occupied in 1967. They talked to Palestinian peasants and refugees and to Israeli settlers. The former have lost their fields and meadows and are to be driven further East from the camps in which they lived since 1948. The latter call their new settlement area “liberated land”.	English, Arabic
54	Fertile Memory	1980	1:39:54	Michel Khleifi	full film (accessible with rental)	https://avilafilm.be/en/film/fertile-memory		https://mecfilm.com/	Fertile Memory is the feature debut of pioneering director Michel Khleifi. Lyrically blending both documentary and narrative elements, Khleifi skillfully and lovingly crafts a portrait of two Palestinian women whose individual struggles both define and transcend the politics that have torn apart their homes and their lives. “Both Sahar and Romia are trapped by the society in which they live, but they experience this stuckness differently. Sahar possesses the words, the other doesn’t. Romia exists, but without defining herself as an individual. Both are frustrated by history, the intellectual one perhaps doubly so for her awareness of this frustration, of the loneliness imposed on her by her situation as a divorcée. Romia accepts her solitude after becoming a widow without bitterness, because she has decided that there is no other way. One character’s words corner those of the other, and I insisted on the film to work in that way, so that the viewer reacts to it, takes active part in the film, becomes an accomplice.” — Michel Khleifi	Arabic	English
55	Occupied Palestine	1981	1:26:29	David Koff	full film	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JQ49NwkgEFM6HD_kIdtGU3l3qa3VWK51/			Long before the first Intifada drew international media, David Koff interviewed Palestinian fighters and ordinary people whose families were displaced from their villages and the families of students who were killed by the Israeli occupation forces, in addition to interviews with Israeli settlers.	English, Arabic	English
56	Forever in Memory	1982	28:34	Hekmat Dawood	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsz0C95TUII			A film documenting the life of the martyr Majed Abu Sharar, who was assassinated in Rome in 1981. The film discusses his childhood, upbringing, and his work leading up to joining the Palestinian Revolution and leading its Unified Media Office. The film contains interviews with Majed Abu Sharar, and testimonies of his friends and commrades.	Arabic	n/a
57	The Ship of Exile	1982	15:33	Jocelyne Saab	full film	https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19_9mQKQ8vcYPJdtBpvopH8j_U9lYm7Y7?usp=sharing		https://jocelynesaab.org/	After living clandestinely in Beirut to escape the Israeli forces, the head of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Yasser Arafat, left Lebanon aboard the Atlantis for a new exile in Greece and then Tunis. He talks about his destiny and the future of the PLO. Saab was the only journalist with a camera admitted on the boat.
58	Born out of Death	1982	9:25	Monica Maurer	full film	https://ok.ru/video/6650176735992			The West-German director Monica Maurer made a number of important films for the PLO. The Israeli airstrikes against Beirut on 17 July 1981 killed 350 people, including a pregnant woman whose baby could be rescued from her torn-up womb. Maurer shows the people’s suffering and pain, their victimhood. She addresses the systemic causes of violence, referring back to the history of their country and formulating arguments for the necessity of a fight for liberation.	English, Arabic	English
59	Beirut 1982: from PLO's Withdrawal to the Sabra and Shatila Massacre	1982	17:28	Ryūichi Hirokawa	full film	https://vk.com/video661463933_456239150			After three months of fierce fighting by the Israeli troupes invading Lebanon, the PLO withdrew from Lebanon leaving the Palestinians unprotected. Nevertheless, in this film, we see Palestinian girls and children, who have been left in Lebanese refugee camps, playing amongst debris and hamming it up for the camera, while at the same time being under the constant threat of an unannounced attack. The narration lets the viewer know that the massacre is imminent and the film shows just how vulnerable their lives and daily life there is. The film then shows the scene of the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps immediately following the massacre, with the scattered dead bodies of many Palestinians.	English, Arabic	English		.
60	Manifestazione per la Palestina - Roma, 21 settembre 1982	1982	9:34	unknown	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up14c0a3QbA			Silent footage of the demonstration of solidarity with Palestine which took place in Rome on 21 September 1982	n/a	n/a
61	Before the Massacre	1982	44:11	Christopher Sykes	full film	https://www.youtube.com/9437Yn80NTw			A BBC documentary about medical volunteers and their patients at the Gaza Hospital in West Beirut in the aftermath of the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the siege and bombardment of West Beirut, home to the PLO and the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Chatila. The filming took place in the days immediately before the infamous Sabra-Chatila massacre, carried out by Lebanese Phalangist troops inside an area under Israeli military control.	English, Arabic	English
62	Little Wars	1982	1:08:00	Maroun Bagdadi	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbIPElTW9iA			Little Wars tells the story of Lebanon’s civil war in 1975 through three characters. Talal, son of a Feudal lord, returns to his region after the disappearance of his father to become a warlord himself. Soraya is in love with Talal and tries to help him by abducting a businessman. Finally, Nabil, a photojournalist who uses the war to trade drugs and tries to pose as a hero, but is in fact very far from being one. Little stories happening during little wars.	Arabic	English
63	Return to Haifa	1982	1:17:39	Kassem Hawal	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ8bj_HgLYM			Return to Haifa is based on Kanafani’s novel the plot of which takes place in 1967, when Palestinian refugees living in the newly occupied territories had an opportunity to visit the places from which they had been expelled in 1948. Saeed and Safiyya, a Palestinian couple expelled from Haifa in 1948, visit the home that had been their own. Miriam, a Holocaust survivor and now a Jewish Israeli citizen who lives in their house, lets them in. She moved there with her husband shortly after the Palestinian couple had been uprooted. The Palestinian couple returns to Haifa hoping to discover something about their baby, Khaldun, whom they had left at home that April morning in 1948, not realizing that neither of them would be able to return. The abandoned baby had been adopted by Miriam and her husband who gave him a Hebrew name – Dov, now a soldier in the Israeli army. This tragic encounter depicted by the movie emblematizes the Nakba’s being not only the tragedy of the Palestinian people but also of the Israeli Jews who cannot escape confronting this past and becoming accountable for it.	Arabic	English
64	Beirut! Not Enought Death to Go Around	1982	57:00	Tahani Rached	full film	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p0KJ99I36t58vFRGgaU6EB3ru5IdUfL5/view?usp=sharing		https://www.nfb.ca/film/beirut_not_enough_death_to_go_round/	A moving and graphic portrait of the people of wartorn Beirut in their day-to-day struggle to survive in the rubble and despair. Filmed shortly after the 1982 massacres at Sabra and Chatila, the film gives a vivid picture of the plight of these people and of any people who are too poor to escape the ravages of war.	Arabi	English
65	Hanna K.	1983	1:51:00	Costa-Gavras	full film	https://drive.google.com/file/d/157_WL8DKm0OMSLaiP6LcQN6wgVfVsK0u/view?usp=sharing			Israeli attorney Hanna Kaufman (Jill Clayburgh) has her beliefs challenged when she is appointed to the defense of Selim Bakri (Mohammad Bakri). Kaufman, who was born in the United States to survivors of the Holocaust, has always accepted Israel's right to exist. But she bears witness to some of the costs of its sovereignty when she meets Bakri, a dispossessed Palestinian man facing serious criminal charges who wants the same thing as his supposed enemies: to reclaim his family home.	English
66	So Much I Want To Say	1983	7:37	Mona Hatoum	full film	https://vimeo.com/262094223		https://lux.org.uk/work/so-much-i-want-to-say/	The video So Much I Want to Say consists of a series of still images, changing every eight seconds, which show the artist's face in close-up with a pair of male hands gagging her mouth and preventing her from speaking. Meanwhile her voice on the sound-track repeats over and over the words of the title. This is one of Hatoum's earliest video works and is based on material from a live performance. During a tour of Canada in 1983 she participated in a slowscan video exchange between Vienna and Vancouver entitled Wiencouver IV. Slowscan satellite transmits an image every eight seconds, with continuous sound via telephone lines. Hatoum's contribution, transmitted live from Vancouver, was also titled So Much I Want to Say. The video work uses footage from the live transmission. It was made at the Western Front Art Centre and is a Western Front Production. Hatoum grew up in Beirut, but became an exile during a visit to London in 1975 when war broke out in Lebanon. She attended art schools in London (Byam Shaw 1975-9 and Slade 1979-81), where she began to make work about her experience of cultural displacement. She has said: 'my work is about my experience of living in the West as a person from the Third World, about being an outsider, about occupying a marginal position, being excluded, being defined as "Other" or as one of "Them"' (quoted in Mona Hatoum, London 1997, p.127). Her early performance works focused with great intensity on her body, which she used as a metaphor for oppression, often separated from the audience by some form of barrier, membrane, cage, cell, wall, hood or veil. In So Much I Want to Say the male hands, which gag Hatoum's mouth, form a physical and visual barrier between the artist and her audience, which seems on one level to prevent her from being seen, heard or understood. They provide a symbol for a cultural elite which stifles the voice of society's dispossessed, those who are alienated through their race, nationality and gender. By presenting images where she appears to be silenced, Hatoum exposes the predicament of political minorities who are silenced or ignored. Her ineffectual struggle to pluck the hands from her face contrasts with the persistent repetition of her voice on the sound-track, demonstrating that it is through her artwork that she has found a channel for her political ideas.	English
67	The Negotiating Table	1983	20:08	Mona Hatoum	full film	https://vimeo.com/396694127			When Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, Mona Hatoum responded to the conflict with a performance piece called The Negotiating Table.“The room is dark, lit only by a light bulb over a table on which the artist lies motionless. Empty chairs surround the table. Her body is bloodstained, covered with entrails, wrapped in plastic, and her head is firmly covered in surgical gauze. On the soundtrack news reports about civil war and speeches of Western leaders talking about peace can be heard.” It was John Pilger’s book Freedom Next Time (Bantam Press, 2006) that got me interested. A quick excerpt: “When I saw [The Negotiating Table] twenty years later, I was reminded that the injustice done in her country was like a spectre: unmoving and watchful, regardless of the manipulations and deceit of the oppressors and their backers. “The droning, insincere, incessant voices of Western broadcasters and politicians, one merging with the other, clip upon clip, produced an unforgettable heightened reality. Art succeeded where journalism had failed.”	English
68	After The Massacre	1983	45:26	Christopher Sykes	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mBPpIfb1FE			1983 BBC1 documentary about young British soldiers stationed in West Beirut in the aftermath of the massacre of civilians in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Chatila. A sequel to BEFORE THE MASSACRE (Beirut, 1982)	English, Arabic	English
69	Variations on Discord and Divisions	1983	29:13	Mona Hatoum	full film	https://vimeo.com/243377299			Live action with hood, knife, bucket, scrubbing brush, red paint, table, chairs, plates, raw beef kidneys, newspapers. First performed at ABC No Rio, New York, on December 2, 1984, with additional performances at A.K.A. Saskatoon, Western Front, Articule, Forest City Gallery, and the Art Gallery of Windsor, 1984-1985. Variations on Discord and Divisions begins in silence. Wearing coveralls and a black balaclava, a barefoot Mona Hatoum crawls slowly across the floor of the Grand Luxe Hall between seated rows of spectators. The stage is covered in newspaper and plastic, and makes a crinkling sound as she moves over it. When she finally arrives at her destined position below a hanging bucket, she stands. Whether spreading the liquid red contents of a bucket over the stage, or attempting to sit at a table only to repeatedly fall to the floor, Hatoum proposes a sadistic vision of human effort. Each variation confounds the supposed task at hand, yielding only further chaos, mess, and difficulty. Her careful but indelicate flops and swooshes use her full form and coveralls as an anonymous agent. With actions that mount in intensity (climaxing with the appearance of a knife and the serving of raw kidneys), the performance generates a sinister and dangerous space of conflict. Her performative gestures are later joined by a sharp sucking and crackling sound, a morse code-like tapping that grows in volume until the lights finally go out. Channels flip on a projection screen. Sounds of newscasters can be heard, alongside images of protests. A headline reads: “35000 people have been the victims of death squads since 1980. 1500 people have been butchered in cold blood in Nazi-like fashion…Twin refugee camps, one vast devastated morgue…Vicious immorale…Oppressed people…Famine, worse than ever.”	English
70	Palestinian Identity	1984	38:23	Kassem Hawal	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o7jgGdhDJ8			Kassem Hawal fled from his native Iraq after political persecution in 1970. Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s he worked with the PLO Film Unit. His vision was the liberation of the region from imperialist and class exploitation. Palestinian Identity is a rare example of a PLO film made after their departure from Beirut. It documents the burnt and destroyed cultural and educational centres from which the israeli military stole films, photographs, historical and contemporary manuscripts. The film includes interviews with key members of the Palestinian cultural scene such as Mahmoud Darwish and Ismail Shammout and those in charge of cultural and educational centres to present a sophisticated intellectual understanding of israel’s attempt to destroy Palestinian identity and the resistance to it. It has not been screened since its premier at Leipzig in 1983.	Arabic, English	English
71	Leila and the Wolves	1984	1:34:33	Heiny Srour	full film	contact distributor for link & password		Nadi Lekol Nas, nadilekolnas@gmail.com	Drawing on the Arab heritage of oral tradition and mosaic pattern, Leila and the Wolves is an exploration of the collective memory of Arab women and their hidden role in history throughout the past half century both in Palestine and in Lebanon.	Arabic	English
72	Ma'loul Celebrates its Destruction	1985	32:19	Michel Khleifi	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH_kOFkzk1E		https://mecfilm.com/	The Brussels-based Palestinian-Belgian filmmaker Michel Khleifi first returned to his birthplace to make the feature film Fertile Memory (1981). A few years later, he turned his camera on the original inhabitants of Ma'loul, a small village in Galilee that was destroyed by Israel after the 1948 war. Since 1948, countless Palestinian villages have been erased from the map. Ma'loul Celebrates its Destruction uses archival images of bombardments, destroyed buildings, and disfigured people to illustrate this. All that remains are ruins, bearing silent witness in the landscape. Ma'Loul, just west of Nazareth, is one such ruined village. It was inhabited principally by Palestinian Christians, who were forced to leave during the Nakba. Only once a year are residents allowed to revisit their old village, on Israeli Independence Day, also known as Nakba day. In Ma'loul Celebrates Its Destruction, Khleifi follows them on that day, revealing a world full of painful memories. A detailed painting still bears testimony to the existence of the village, which had seen Jewish, Roman, Ottoman, and Palestinian rulers come and go since ancient times. But Ma'Loul also lives on in the memories of its former—now elderly—inhabitants, who tell the story of exactly what happened. We get another perspective from a Palestinian school teacher, who explains to her young students why in the wake of World War II, the Jewish people had such an urgent need for their own nation, a place where they could feel safe. A strikingly mild assessment of the occupier, whom the teacher sees as a closely related brother people. An older man considers it unjustifiable that the Palestinians have become the indirect victims of the Nazi terror, in which they played no part whatsoever.
73	Gaza Ghetto: Portrait of a Palestinian Family	1985	1:20:55	Per-Åke Holmquist	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD0x_AGTLFg		info@arabfilm.com	The first documentary feature made in Gaza, this now classic film puts today’s headlines into historical perspective. It focuses on life under military occupation in Jabalia, the largest of all Palestinian refugee camps. A child is born and a child dies, and we come to understand the impact of decades of war and displacement on daily life and family rituals. We also meet Israelis personally involved: soldiers on patrol, settlers and government architects of the military occupation, Ariel Sharon, among them.	Arabic	English
74	The Road to Palestine	1985	7:24	Layaly Badr	full film	https://vimeo.com/512227375			Seven-year-old Layla lives in a refugee camp outside Palestine. Her father was killed and she was badly injured from an air raid. This film shares the life of Layla and her friends, who tell us how they imagine Palestine despite them having never seen it.	Arabic	English
75	The Shadow of the West	1986	52:18	Geoff Dunlop	full film	https://vimeo.com/886117156			The Shadow of the West focuses on the plight of the Palestinians which can be seen as the most enduring residue of the modern encounter between the Arabs and the West. Edward Said traces the course of European involvement with the Near East via the Crusades to Napoleon's campaign in Egypt and the French and English mandates.	English, Arabic	English
76	Wild Flowers: Women of South Lebanon	1986	1:09:32	Jean Khalil Chamoun & Mai Masri	full film	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WbN5XMWKhaj7UUbLg5D65pohobdrQQKa/		maimasri@gmail.com	In this award-winning documentary, directors Masri and Chamoun focus on the women who played a crucial role in fighting the Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon. Preserving their stories on camera, Wild Flowers: Women of South Lebanon is a poignant documentary about courage, resistance, and hope.	Arabic	English
77	Aqabat jaber: Vie de passage	1987	1:00:27	Eyal Sivan	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOFXGrsX18c		https://www.momento-films.com/	As parched and spare as the landscape it chronicles, "Aqabat Jaber: Passing Through" is a coarsely realistic and depressing look at one of the largest Palestinian refugee camps. Strictly for specials houses, pic would fare better as a public broadcasting spec than a theatrical feature. Aqabat Jaber was set up on the occupied West Bank in 1948 for 65,000 Palestinians who were uprooted from 116 villages. Today there are only 3,000 refugees left. First-lime director Eyal Sivan takes his camera on-site to the remaining inhabitants, most of whom are convinced that they will one day, through political or divine intervention, return to their homeland. They all express similar sentiment - their land is the very source, they are homesick for their villages and orchards, and feel that Aqabat Jaber is a "temporary situation," although they've been there for 38 years (pic was shot in 1986). Some refugees welcome the chance to introduce themselves, air their grievances and bemoan their fates; others scorn the filmmakers. Sivan, ever sympathetic to their conditions, extracts detailed life stories from these displaced persons as he pans the daily life at the camps _women baking bread, men sitting around smoking from a hookah, children playing in abandoned baked earth houses. The United Nations Relief and Works Act, which set up the camp now provides it with a minimal of sustenance every two months. In the summer there's no water. It's all hopeless and full of despair. Being and nothingness are the watchwords at the camp as well as this docu. Sivan should have established the details of the camp's politics and history at the outset to make the individual stories more accessible to the viewer, instead of saving a paragraph of description for the end. There's no narration or music either. These people's plights are poignant, but there are too many unanswered questions as to why they're still here, why neighbouring Arab countries didn't take them in, and why their embitterment paralyzes.	Arabic	English
78	Wedding in Galilii	1987	1:52:17	Michel Khleifi	full film (accessible with rental)	https://avilafilm.be/en/film/wedding-galilee		https://mecfilm.com/	The mayor (Mohamad Ali El Akili) of a West Bank village wants his son (Yussef Abu Warda) to adhere to Palestinian tradition in his upcoming wedding. The trouble is, custom conflicts with the curfew put in place by the Israeli military. To get an exception, the father has to get clearance from the occupying governor (Makram Khoury), who, against all expectation, grants it. But there's a catch: The governor and his Israeli colleagues have to be on the guest list.	Arabic	English, French, Dutch	to enable English subtitles, download file and play in vlc with subtitle track set to 1 (English), to enable French or Dutch subtitles, do the same and select track 2(French) or 3 (Dutch)
79	Intifada - Road to Freedom	1988	21:59	Jenny Morgan	full film	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gv_sEx3Zfp3F9JlRqGUL2fxECdKwmGxy/			The film explores the first Palestinian Intifada against the Israeli Occupation in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. It shows moving images of resistance against the Israeli occupation, while exploring the steadfast determination of the Palestinian People, confronting a modern army with stones. The film highlights the active and important role of women in the intifada.	Arabic	English
80	Palestine in Flames	1988	30:02	Monica Maurer	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFYCfmzai6s			The film attempts to reconstruct - partly with archive material - the historical-political background of the Intifada: a revolt that has its roots in the 1920s, when due to the colonization of Palestine by Zionist Jews, coming mainly from Europe, ended the centuries-old peaceful coexistence between the three monotheistic religions (Islamism, Judaism, Christianity). In 1947 the UN decided to divide Palestine - then under British mandate - into two states: one Jewish and the other Arab. In 1948, with the creation of the State of Israel, the occupation of Arab lands and the endless series of clashes and wars began.	English
81	Measures of Distance	1988	15:34	Mona Hatoum	full film	https://youtu.be/eKGPefM-Uf8		info@vdb.org	Created in 1988, "Measures of Distance" illustrates Hatoum's early themes of family, displacement, and female sexuality. The video piece itself is fifteen minutes long and consists of intimate, colored photographs of Hatoum's mother showering. Hatoum overlays the photographs with letters from her mother to Hatoum.	Arabic, English
82	Exiles: Edward Said	1988	54:10	Christopher Sykes	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g1ooTNkMQ4			Edward Said, critic, tells his story and the story of Palestine.	English
83	The Dream (al-Manam)	1988	44:52	Mohammad Malas	full film	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Qox0BC7N2sYDljhPSj6l-Ft5FWBcYC46/		duniafilm@gmail.com, MEC Films Berlin	The Dream or Al-Manam is a 1987 Syrian documentary film by the director Mohammad Malas. The film is composed of a collection of interviews with Palestinian refugees in Lebanon during the civil war. The refugees were interviewed by Malas about what dreams they saw when they went to sleep.	Arabic	English
84	War Generation Beirut	1988	50:00	Mai Masri, Jean Khalil Chamoun	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnKolJGPv9Q			Filmed on the streets of Beirut, War Generation Beirut is an award-winning documentary film by Jean Khalil Chamoun and Mai Masri that explores the life experiences of three generations of young people as they struggle to survive in Lebanon’s war-torn capitol city. The film also traces the history and origins of Lebanon's Civil War. Filmmakers Jean Khalil Chamoun, from Lebanon, and Mai Masri, from Palestine, first met in 1982 and were married in 1986. They founded Nour Productions and have co-directed documentaries for international TV channels such as BBC, Channel 4, PBS, and Aljazeera Documentary Channel. For audiences around the world, the films of Mai Masri and Jean Chamoun have provided a glimpse into the everyday lives and struggles of people living in Palestine and Lebanon.
85	Al Nawss (The Quiver of the Branch by the Wind)	1989	25:12	Majdi El Omari	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvciYwe0ABQ			A young Palestinian living in exile is searching for the reason of his attachment to a land where he was not born. The land of his father's tongue and of the stories of his grandmother who died in Gazza, of the faraway sea of Yafa and the dance of the Mary ... footsteps that surround him always, in spite of time and distance. He meets Nu'ma and she leads him to Om-Mazen who like him, lives in exile – in Egypt. Om-Mazen's age is that of questions and of roots... she speaks: telling the old story, the song, the place, names, dialects and examples...he asks her questions and the melodies are formed. He listens to her words and sees her moving far back in time to her childhood days. The girls describe the relationship between Om-Mazen and the young man... names, words, their present and the thoughts in their minds. One of the girls is the moon's lover, another is a spring that the young man had seen in Nablus and a third tells her story with a young man whom Om-Mazen had seen in Beirut. Their characters become part of the quiver, as well as Om-Mazen, the young man and the melody... the wind is always there and by it, quivers the branch.	Arabic	English
86	Introduction to the End of an Argument	1990	40:56	Jayce Salloum & Elia Suleiman	full film	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qkMW_g7wLZJRcJ4ntNNOsynBMbxaqD_3/		VTape, Toronto; VIVO, Vancouver; Argos, Brussels, info@arabfilm.com	With a combination of Hollywood, European, and Israeli film; documentary; news coverage; and excerpts of 'live' footage shot in the West Bank and Gaza strip, Muqaddimah Li-Nihayat Jidal (Introduction to the End of an Argument) critiques representations of the Middle East, Arab culture, and the Palestinian people produced by the West. The video mimics the dominant media's forms of representation, subverting its methodology and construction. A process of displacement and deconstruction is enacted attempting to arrest the imagery and ideology, decolonizing and recontextualizing it to provide a space for a marginalized voice consistently denied expression in the media. "Intifada, the Palestinian uprising in the Occupied Territories, has come to us courtesy of the media. And it is through the media that our impressions of the uprising have accreted via image and text. Jayce Salloum, a Lebanese-Canadian artist; and Elia Suleiman, a Palestinian filmmaker living in New York, have taken on our accumulated (mis)impressions by tracing their genesis in cinema and television. This highly kinetic tableau of appropriated sights and sounds works most earnestly to expose the racial biases concealed in familiar images. The storehouse of misconstrued ideas about Arab culture is shown in all its cinematic splendor, from the denigrating seraglios in films such as Elvis Presley's Harem Scarum and Valentino's The Sheik, to the dehumanization of Arabs as evinced by epics like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Speaking for oneself... it would be compelling if it were nothing more than this compendium of Arab stereotypes, but it is much more. Taking snippets from feature films (Exodus, Lawrence of Arabia, Black Sunday, Little Drummer Girl, etc.) and network news, Salloum and Suleiman have constructed an oddly wry narrative, mimicking the history of Mideast politics. Through key political phrases... we see repetitive distortions transformed into foreign policy. The injustice, of course, is that this is our history of their struggle. Speaking for oneself... is a first attempt at making the image and the act one and the same."	English, Arabic	English
87	Canticle of Stones	1990	1:49:12	Michel Khleifi	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEZe2jRCpNs		https://mecfilm.com/, info@arabfilm.com	Canticle of the Stones tells the story of two Palestinian lovers, now in their forties. They had barely fallen in love nearly twenty years earlier when he was imprisoned for political activity. She ran off to the United States to overcome her grief. Years later, she comes back to Jerusalem to study the Intifada's impact on Palestinian society only to find him released from prison. Against a backdrop of resistance and repression, they fall in love again. This lyrical film strives to fill the gap between fiction and reality. Its poetic dialog is beautifully intertwined with the harsh language of military occupation and resistance. Canticle of the Stones is Michel Khleifi's second feature, after his brilliant film debut, Wedding in Galilee.	Arabic	English
88	Palestine: The First Intifada	1991	50:00	Antonia Benedek	full film	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1od2bgYIUKcE7x9AHyN45PhRZk4keY6eA/			Documentary by Antonia Benedek made during the First Intifada about the uprising whic took place 50 years earlier, against both the British colonial rule and zionist settler encroahment on Palestinian lands.
89	The Upper Gate	1991	90:00	Arab Loutfi	full film	https://vimeo.com/433362585			“When I returned to Sidon in 1983 it had just been occupied. My sister destroyed several documents in a panic because the Zionist soldiers were coming, and I lost many of my mementos. Friends were killed and places I loved were destroyed. I wanted to capture memories that could not be destroyed. The city had survived and many people I knew were still living there and taking stock of their losses. Actually, everyone in the documentary was someone I loved, and so the film was in many ways an extended form of my memory”. Through people’s stories,The Upper Gate weaves the history of south Lebanon’s city of Sidon.
90	Canada Park: A Park with No Peace	1991	29:00	Neil Docherty	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mK2ZbTCb7s			A CBC Fifth Estate program, entitled "A Park with no Peace," about the JNF and Canada Park was broadcast on October 21, 1991. This program interviewed eyewitnesses and documented the war crimes committed by Israel and how the JNF was used to cover up those crimes.	English, Arabic
91	Stolen Freedom: Occupied Palestine	1991	24:58	David Kandah	full film	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NIIa6zrUCkMMxWvYdhgp1SLG74Y1Sk6h/			The story of Palestinian children growing up and learning to survive in the daily tension of life on the West Bank. Includes interviews with young people living in this strife-torn environment.	English, Arabic
92	Homage by Assassination	1992	25:46	Elia Suleiman	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L25WlRh6OlI		https://www.vdb.org/titles/homage-assassination	A Palestinian filmmaker is writing a script in his New York apartment during the first Gulf war. As much as he tries to shut himself off from the exterior world, images of past wars in the Middle East come back to haunt him.
93	Suspended Dreams	1992	41:41	Mai Masri, Jean Khalil Chamoun	full film	https://drive.google.com/file/d/16AjFOACSMd1oE4Pr9kMEttTFF6XwWXj-/		maimasri@gmail.com	Filmmakers Jean Khalil Chamoun, from Lebanon, and Mai Masri, from Palestine, first met in 1982 and were married in 1986. They founded Nour Productions and have co-directed documentaries for international TV channels such as BBC, Channel 4, PBS, and Aljazeera Documentary Channel. For audiences around the world, the films of Mai Masri and Jean Chamoun have provided a glimpse into the everyday lives and struggles of people living in Palestine and Lebanon. In Suspended Dreams, Jean Chamoun and Mai Masri link the stories of four people who are attempting to reconstruct their lives after Lebanon's long and devastating civil war. The film features two ex-militia fighters from Beirut; a woman searching for her missing husband; a playwright from southern Lebanon. Each share their lives and hardships amidst the rubble of their war-torn homeland.	Arabic	English
94	Jamila’s Mirror	1993	31:28	Arab Loutfi	full film	https://youtu.be/dsyp_P5tdoA			Deals with the memories of Palestinian female guerilla fighters, currently in their forties, who were involved in military operations during their teen years.	Arabic	English
95	Edward Said: The Idea of Empire	1993	1:00:11	Franci Hanly, Tim May	full film	https://vimeo.com/414226354			Edward Said, a Palestinan writer, academic and exile, talks about his book "Culture and Imperialism" and explains how the attitudes forged over the last 200 years continue to enforce the relationship between the west and the developing world.
96	Cinéma Fouad	1993	40:54	Mohamed Soueid	full fim	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDtRCpWxB1Q		Mohamed Soueid ahwakforever@gmail.com	"CINEMA FOUAD is a documentary portrait of Khaled El Kurdi, a Syrian trans woman living in Beirut where she earns a living as a domestic worker and belly dancer. Soueid shows us scenes of El Kurdi's domestic world: eating, applying make-up, dancing in her bedroom, all while reflecting on her life and experiences.	Arabic	English
97	Hanan Ashrawi: A Woman of Her Time	1995	49:37	Mai Masri	full film	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VQXfTFR5mL_tZGh99OU9-4sukFSMyXUB/		info@arabfilm.com	In the aftermath of the peace accord signed by Israel and the PLO in September of 1995, Palestinian spokeswoman Hanan Ashrawi emerged as a formidable negotiator and a persuasive voice on the international stage. But beyond the polished rhetoric and the public poise, what drives this mother of two whose high profile and personal integrity have made her enemies as well as friends? Palestinian filmmaker Mai Masri profiles Ashrawi in this intimate portrait, exploring how she juggles her responsibilities as political activist, writer, and mother—all against the backdrop of challenges facing the Palestinians in their struggle to build a viable state.	Arabic, English	English
98	Aqabat jaber: Paix sans retour?	1995	1:20:00	Eyal Sivan	excerpt	https://vimeo.com/531871589			Aqabat-Jaber is a Palestinian refugee camp built nearly seventy years ago just outside Jericho. Today, the camp’s 3,000 inhabitants live under Palestinian autonomy, but paradoxically their status has not changed, they are still refugees.	Arabic, Hebrew	English
99	Tale of the Three Jewels	1995	1:52:31	Michel Khleifi	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dJB3VoHKZw		distribution@arsenal-berlin.de, info@arabfilm.com	A mixture of realism and allegory set against the backdrop of the Palestinian uprising in Gaza, TALE OF THE THREE JEWELS is the story of Youssef, a 12-year-old Palestinian boy who tries to win the love of Aida, a beautiful Gypsy girl. Aida offers her heart on the condition that he find her grandmother's lost jewels.	Arabic	English	to enable English subtitles, download file and play in vlc with subtitle track set to 1 (English)
100	Chronicle of a Disappearance	1996	1:28:00	Elia Suleiman	full film (accessible with subscription)	https://www.netflix.com/title/70037088			A Palestinian expatriate filmmaker (Elia Suleiman) documents the loss of national identity in Israel's Arab population.	Arabic	English	to enable English subtitles, download file and play in vlc with subtitle track set to 1 (English)
101	The Littel Hands	1996	26:21	Abdel Salam Shehada	full film	https://vimeo.com/57442257			A documentary exploring the phenomenon of child labour in Gaza. The film tells the moving stories of four children, looking into the economic, social and political conditions that led them into the workforce at a young age, and examining the impact and implications for their families, the society and their future.	Arabic	English
102	Haifa	1996	1:12:39	Rashid Masharawi	full film	https://watch.plex.tv/movie/haifa			The lives of a group of inhabitants in a refugee camp on the Gaza Strip in the days leading up to the peace agreement signed by Arafat and Rabin in Washington - and the mixed emotions that ensue as seen through the eyes of Haifa.	Arabic	English
103	Far From You	1996	27:00	Samirah Alkassim	full film	https://vimeo.com/241043776			Experimental documentary that explores the aura of Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum through her mediated image, its degeneration through analog copying, and the possibilities of borrowed nostalgia.	English	English
104	There Are So Many Things Still To Say	1997	49:30	Omar Amiralay	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdFFUdP2aUU			The film was based on an interview with Syrian playwright Saadallah Wannous a few months before he died of cancer, in which he talks about the Arab – Israeli conflict, documenting decades of the dream of Arab liberation.	Arabic	English
105	A Plate of Sardines	1997	17:23	Omar Amiralay	ful film	https://youtu.be/6EaX3uLl_tI			The first time I heard about Israel was in Beirut, and about a plate of sardines. I was six, Israel was two. The plate of sardines was sitting on the table of the filmmaker's aunt in Beirut. She was angry at the fish, symbols of the port where her husband had been working since they both had to leave Palestine. Time dissipated her anger. On the Golan Heights, the ruins of Quneitra, destroyed by the Israeli army, a cinema in ruins, a filmmaker friend from the city (Mohammad Malas) and the vision of families shouting messages to each other through megaphones interposed on either side of a barbed wire line: images of a past that painfully fills the minds of those separated by the Israeli-Syrian border.	Arabic	English
106	The Milky Way	1997	1:45:00	Ali Nasser				info@arabfilm.com	Abandoned as a youth, Mabruq (Suheil Haddad) lives in a small town in Galilee where the residents mostly look down upon him. He is smitten with a withdrawn young woman, Jamilah (Mihaela Mitraki), and he looks up to Mahmud (Mohammad Bakri), the local fix-it man. The muktahr (Makram Khoury) is the village leader and does his best to maintain the peace by keeping the Israeli military happy, but, when trouble strikes the area, everyone's life is changed.	Arabic	English
107	Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y	1997	1:07:00	Johan Grimonprez	full film	https://vimeo.com/231411671			Buckle up for dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, the acclaimed hijacking documentary that eerily foreshadowed 9-11. We meet the romantic skyjackers who fought their revolutions and won airtime on the passenger planes of the 1960’s. By the 1990s, such characters apparently are no more, replaced on our TV screens by stories of state-sponsored suitcase bombs. Director Johan Grimonprez investigates the politics behind this change, at the same time unwrapping our own complicity in the urge for ultimate disaster. Playing on Don DeLillo’s riff in the novel MAO II: ‘what terrorists gain, novelists lose’ and ‘home is a failed idea’, he blends archive hijackings with surreal and banal themes including fast food, pet statistics, disco and his quirky home movies. David Shea wrote the superb soundtrack to this roller coaster through history, best described in the words of one hijacked Pepsi executive as: “running the gamut of many emotions: from surprise to shock, to fear, to joy, to laughter and then again, fear.”	English	French/Dutch
108	My Very Private Map	1988	20:35	Sobhi al-Zobaidi'	full film	https://vimeo.com/93912449			Sobhi al-Zobaidi's first personal film, produced on the even of the 50th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba. A personal journey into the memory of Palestinian refugees.
109	Children of Shatila	1998	47:01	Mai Masri	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK1PyvIgj9w		info@arabfilm.com	Many people first became aware of the Shatila refugee camp in Lebanon after the shocking and horrific Sabra-Shatila massacre that took place there in 1982. Located in Beirut's "belt of misery," the camp is home to 15,000 Palestinians and Lebanese who share a common experience of displacement, unemployment and poverty. Fifty years after the exile of their grandparents from Palestine, the children of Shatila attempt to come to terms with the reality of being refugees in a camp that has survived massacre, siege and starvation. Director Mai Masri focuses on two Palestinian children in the camp: Farah, age 11 and Issa, age 12. When these children are given video cameras, the story of the camp evolves from their personal narratives as they articulate the feelings and hopes of their generation.	Arabic	English
110	In Search of Palestine: Edward Said’s Return Home	1998	50:13	BBC	full film	https://vimeo.com/184213685			“In Search of Palestine - Edward Said’s Return Home” is a film presented by Edward Said, and produced by the BBC in 1998. It captures the interconnection between Said’s personal recollection and the shared memory of the Palestinian people. The film discusses the Oslo accords, ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, settlements expansion, growing apartheid system, segregation within the Israeli state, and other aspects of occupation.	Arabic	English
111	Edward Said On Orientalism	1998	40:31	Sut Jhally	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVC8EYd_Z_g			Edward Said's book ORIENTALISM has been profoundly influential in a diverse range of disciplines since its publication in 1978. In this engaging (and lavishly illustrated) interview he talks about the context within which the book was conceived, its main themes and how its original thesis relates to the contemporary understanding of "the Orient." Said argues that the Western (especially American) understanding of the Middle East as a place full of villains and terrorists ruled by Islamic fundamentalism produces a deeply distorted image of the diversity and complexity of millions of Arab peoples.
112	Mahmoud Darwich : Et la terre, comme la langue...	1998	59:53.84	Simone Bitton & Elias Sanbar	full film	https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ejdLtCofhE8j404Tigc4quMd0mydes2U?usp=sharing			In the powerful documentary "Mahmoud Darwich," Simone Bitton interviews the famed Palestinian poet about his art, life, and relationship with his homeland. Bitton explores the connection between the poet and the land of which he writes but has not been allowed to visit. His life and the development of his art is retraced, from his experience as a young man living in Jerusalem, to exile in Beirut and Tunis, where he became an active supporter of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, and finally to Paris, where he currently resides and cloisters himself in his work.	French, Arabic	French, English
113	1948	1998	54:21	Mohammad Bakri	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QjTl5CBzKg			The documentary records the memories of a group of Palestinian elders, mainly veterans from the 1948 expulsions. Their stories of refugee struggles are interspersed with poems of Mahmoud Darwish. Director. Mohammad Bakri.	Arabic	English
114	A short visit	1999	1:10:07	Arab Loutfi	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJWCq4_auLY			the film is a visit to Ain Elhelwi and Shateela camps in the year 1999	Arabic
115	Naji al-Ali: An Artist with Vision	1999	52:07	Kasim Abid	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y31yUi4WVsU			"During the 30 years since I started drawing, I feel I have been through every Arab prison and I ask myself: What is there to come after all this? I was prepared to die defending just one drawing, because every drawing is like a drop of water which makes its way through the minds of people."—Naji Al Ali Throughout history artists have faced the threat of violence when their work offended the state or the political elite. The late Palestinian cartoonist Naji Al-Ali produced thousands of cartoons satirizing the powers that be in the Middle East, and paid the ultimate price for his 'offensive' expression. On July 22, 1987 he was shot in the face, at point blank range, as he left the London offices of the Al Qabbas newspaper. He died after laying in a coma for 5 weeks. Emerging from humble beginnings in the refugee camps, for over 30 years he was an uncompromising critic of a regressive Arab political culture and of Western intervention in Arab affairs. Interviews with leading Arab journalists and poets, former jail mates, his wife and others give us insight to his unrelenting commitment to his people, and into his subtly satirical cartoons that stirred the hearts of millions of refugees. NAJI AL-ALI, AN ARTIST WITH VISION examines the forces that shaped Naji as an artist, as a human being, and shows how his experiences mirror those of other exiled Palestinians. Known as the Palestinian Malcolm X, Naji is still the most popular artist in the Arab world, loved for his defense of the ordinary people, and for his criticism of repression and despotism. Paradoxically, strict censorship and widespread illiteracy in the Arab world helped Naji to achieve his remarkable success. His unrelenting cartoons exposed the brutality of the Israeli army and the hypocrisy of the PLO, earning him many powerful enemies. The turning point in Naji's story was the publication of his cartoon satirizing Egyptian journalist Rashida Muhran, Yasser Arafat's official biographer. Arafat was furious and Naji was forced to leave for London. Despite some arrests by Scotland Yard and an investigation by MI5, the assassin's identity has never been revealed. Who murdered Naji, the Mossad or the PLO?	Arabic	English
116	Collecting Stories from Exile: Chicago Palestinians Remember 1948	1999	28:10	Jennifer Bing-Canar	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1jAfRQhCv0			With introductory and concluding statements by Edward Said, this careful study in oral history is far more than a handful of reminiscences. This video documents the collective nature of the stories from 1948 Palestinian survivors. It describes their daily life before the war, their flight from the conflict and their lives in exile. COLLECTING STORIES FROM EXILE seamlessly weaves together interviews from the 1948 survivors with scenes demonstrating the process of oral history. Attempts to inspire Arab Americans and other communities to use oral history to preserve personal stories and memories often ignored or excluded from traditional historical narratives.	English, Arabic
117	Cyber Palestine	1999	16:00	Elia Suleiman	full film	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1usEZtSZxa7co4mxRRFsPn2jPObKDYMf-/view?usp=sharing			Cyber Palestine is a parable about a modern-day Mary and Joseph, two Palestinian returnees living in Gaza, and their tribulations with the Israeli occupation.	English, Arabic	French
118	untitled part 3b: (as if) beauty never ends..	2000	11:34	Jayce Salloum	full film	https://vimeo.com/69640623		VTape, Toronto; VIVO, Vancouver; Argos, Brussels	A more ambient work of many things, including orchids blooming, and plants growing, superimposed over raw footage from post massacre filmings of the 1982 massacre at Sabra and Shatila refugee camp in Lebanon. Cloud footage, Hubbell space imagery, the visible body crosscuts, and abstract shots of slow motion water, add to this reflection of the past, its present context and forbearance. With the voice over of Abdel Majid Fadl Ali Hassan (a 1948 refugee living in Bourg El Barajneh camp) recounting a story told by the rubble of his home in Palestine, and the collection of audio accompanying the clips, the tape permeates into an intense essay on dystopia in contemporary times. Working directly, viscerally, and metaphorically the videotape provides an elegiac response to the Palestinian dispossession.	Arabic	English
119	Impressions passagères	2000	22:00	Taysir Batniji	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUtZJHtgHyk				n/a	n/a
120	Genet à Chatila	2000	1:34:51	Richard Dindo	full film	https://drive.google.com/file/d/18V-mDIvmEmORtAacKSdqujcCHJu9jZMF/			In this film, actress Mounia follows Genet in his footsteps, thereby reconstructing an important episode from his life.	French, Arabic, English	English
121	Naim and Wadee’a	2000	16:31	Najwa Najjar	full film	https://vimeo.com/26527314			A 20-minute documentary on Yaffa before 1948. The documentary explores social life in Yaffa through a miniature portrait of a Palestinian couple, Wadee’a Aghabi and Naim Azar … the filmmaker’s grandparents who lived in the city, and the effect leaving Yaffa had on them. The story is built on the oral history of the three daughters of Naim and Wadee’a … Mary, Janette and Therese. Their daughters preserved their memories, taking the audience into lives of Naim and Wadee’a and into the city they were forced to leave behind.	Arabic	English
122	The States of Things	2000	3:10	Rosalind Nashashibi	full film	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Jvmdm4NKSbGVeRp7HE3LpWCFgfXwfyyx/		bookings@lux.org.uk	A Glasgow jumble sale set to an Egyptian classic love song from the 1920’s. Watching the film the audience is unsure where and when the action takes place, questioning the simplistic, unspecific and convenient conceptions of East and West.	n/a	n/a
123	Coffin of Memory	2001	42:00	Rami Sabbagh	full film	https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1aBZtJ_xINmyjIBs7I1nlJ9LwCKdRR8nz		nadilekolnas@gmail.com	After an interruption of thirty years. Christian Ghazi resumes his cinematographic work with the documentary "Coffin of the Memory". The film mixes newly shot interviews with archive images. In the interviews it sheds light on two basic issues, solitude and economic situation. Through images and simple daily situations, Christian Ghazi draws a portrait of the Lebanese society, a society drowning in its contradictions and its search for an empty individualism and the superficiality of daily consumption, that of production, ideas, time and space.	Arabic	English
124	Weddings of Flowers	2001	28:51	Iyad Al-Daoud	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHQq_WHcQtQ&rco=1			The film Weddings of Flowers, and the director Iyad Al-Daoud deals with the issue of Palestinian children, especially those who were martyred by the occupation bullets.	Arabic	English
125	Gaza Diary	2001	4:45	Taysir Batniji	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlleJVyP6g4
126	untitled part 3a: occupied territories	2001	23:21	Jayce Salloum	full film	https://vimeo.com/143585359		VTape, Toronto; VIVO, Vancouver; Argos, Brussels	Excerpts from two conversations, one with Abdel Majid Fadl Ali Hassan (in Bourg al Barajinah refugee camp, near Beirut), and the other with Nameh Hussein Suleiman (in Baddawi refugee camp, near Tripoli, Lebanon), two elder Palestinians that have been living in the camps in Lebanon since 1948. They discuss their forced displacement and the condition of their lives in a brutal permanent temporariness. Abdel Majid discusses issues of dispossession, and recites an eloquent poem told by the ruins of his house in Palestine where once he was allowed visit after his first 30 years of forced absence, and Nameh recounts her journey of exile and the present situation of her life.	Arabic	English
127	Palestine Palestine	2001	1:16:08	Dominique Dubosc	full film	https://vimeo.com/40413365		contact@dominiquedubosc.com	“ Sometimes a people is caught in the dream of another people. Zionism is such a dream. Here the dreamer is Israel. The prisoner of the dream is the Palestinian people.” As we follow a puppet show through the schools of the West Bank during the second Intifada - and stop for a while in a refugee camp - we understand what it’s like to be caught in the dream of another people.	Arabic, English	English
128	Frontiers of Dreams and Fears	2001	55:45	Mai Masri	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjtiLxzekHw		info@arabfilm.com	In this documentary, two Palestinian girls who both belong to the same cultural center maintain a tight friendship, despite the obstacles imposed by history and circumstance. Mona, 13, lives in a refugee camp in Beirut, while 14-year-old Manar resides in an Israeli-controlled camp near Bethlehem. The friends correspond via letters but can't see each other because of border regulations. Still, despite the risks, they decide to meet each other at the South Lebanon border.	Arabic	English
129	Nazareth 2000	2001	55:32	Hany Abu-Assad	full film	https://vimeo.com/39732859			Returning to his native city just months before the new millennium, filmmaker Hany Abu-Assad captures the daily, idiosyncratic beats of Nazareth - a city both Christians and Muslims consider one of the most sacred in the world. Set against the background of the riots surrounding a square that both the municipality and the Muslim community lay claim to, Abu-Assad allows his story to unfold through the eyes of two cynical, funny and wise gas station attendants who have been working at the service station for decades. Their comments on the political and social conditions of their city paint both a tragic and subtle image of its inhabitants.	Arabic	English
130	Lions	2002	9:33	Nahed Awwad	full film	https://vimeo.com/64412471					English
131	Palestine Is Still the Issue	2002	52:49	Tony Stark	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39EjqBrJBAc			In 1977, the award-winning journalist and filmmaker, John Pilger, made a documentary called Palestine Is Still the Issue (1977). He told how almost a million Palestinians had been forced off their land in 1948, and again in 1967. In this new documentary, he has returned to the West Bank of the Jordan and Gaza, and to Israel, to ask why the Palestinians, whose right of return was affirmed by the United Nations more than half a century ago, are still caught in a terrible limbo — refugees in their own land, controlled by Israel in the longest military occupation in modern times. "The fate and struggle of the Palestinians," says Pilger, "are not just critical to the overdue recognition of their basic human rights, but are also central to whether the region, and the wider world, are plunged into war. Israel is now one of the biggest military powers in the world. While nothing changes, the dangers become greater. This is a film about a nation of people, traumatized, humiliated and yet resilient. In trying to liberate less than a quarter of historic Palestine, they have had no army, no air force, and no powerful friends — and have fought back with slingshots and now with the terrorism of the suicide bombers.' In a series of extraordinary interviews with both Palestinians and Israelis, John Pilger weaves together the issue of Palestine. He speaks to the families of suicide bombers and their victims; he sees the humiliation of Palestinians imposed on them at myriad checkpoints and with a permit system not dissimilar to apartheid South Africa's infamous pass laws. He goes into the refugee camps and meets children who, he says, "no longer dream like other children, or if they do, it is about death." Continually asking for the solution, John Pilger says it is time to bring justice, as well as peace, to Palestine.	English, Arabic	English
132	Gaza Strip	2002	1:12:03	James Longley	full film	https://vimeo.com/23503221			In early 2001 I spent three months in Gaza filming material for this documentary, GAZA STRIP, working with local fixer and translator, Mohammed Mohanna. The second Palestinian uprising against Israeli military occupation had begun in September, 2000, and there had already been large numbers of deaths in Gaza when I started this project. Though the period this documentary covers includes the election of Ariel Sharon as Israeli Prime Minister and large incursions by the Israeli Defense Forces into Gaza, in retrospect the time depicted here is one of relative quiet. More recent Israeli attacks against Gaza have been far more destructive and deadly than what falls into the scope of this film. The time since the release of this film in 2002 has seen many changes, including the evacuation of illegal Israeli settlements inside the Gaza Strip and the election of Hamas. However, the occupation and attacks against Gaza continue, and the blockade of Gaza has intensified. It is my hope that this film will provide a partial introduction to Gaza for those who have come to the subject recently, and also serve as a document of its time.
133	Life on the rooftops	2002	2:26	Dominique Dubosc	full film	https://vimeo.com/889668167		https://dominiquedubosc.com/en/home-en/	September 2002 - In the fourth month of continuous curfew, the inhabitants of Ramallah spend their lives on rooftops. For the previous three months, they couldn't leave their homes, or even go near their windows.
134	Untitled	2002	1:68	Taysir Batniji	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDcHa5pgIsI
135	Divine Intervention	2002	90:00	Elia Suleiman	full film	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ImAXIysZl-V4v8XpfGBmWOdJK3QrItNz/view?usp=sharing		info@arabfilm.com	E.S. cares for his ailing father in Jerusalem whilst conducting an affair with a Palestinian woman living in Ramallah. Barred from moving between the two cities, the lovers are forced to share their intimate moments in the shadow of an Israeli army checkpoint.	Arabic, Hebrew, English	English
136	Jenin, Jenin	2002	53:55	Mohammad Bakri	full film	https://vimeo.com/499672067			"Where is God," an elderly man desperately wonders when surveying the debris in the Palestinian refugee camp Jenin. Directed and co-produced by Palestinian actor Mohammad Bakri, Jenin Jenin includes testimony from Jenin residents after the Israeli army's Defensive Wall operation. The city and camp were the scenes of fierce fighting which ended with Jenin flattened and scores of Palestinians dead. Palestinians as well as numerous human rights groups accused Israel of committing war crimes in the attack. The United Nations appointed a commission of inquiry, but Israel refused to let its members visit the scene. Banned in Israel, Jenin Jenin is dedicated to Iyad Samudi, the producer of the film, who returned home to Yamun after the shooting of the film was completed. On June 23, as Israeli forces besieged Yamun, Samudi was shot and killed as he was leaving a militarily-closed area with three friends.	Arabic	English
137	encounter with Samira Badran	2002	12:00	Sobhi al Zobaidi	full film	https://vimeo.com/94626533			Samira Badran is a Palestinian artist living in Spain. in 2002 I was invited to participate in a conference in Barcelona where I met Samira and she invited me to her studio.
138	Imperial Geography	2002	28:58	David Barsamian	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-osOmZzZUs			Palestine. The home of three of the world' great religions. A crossroads of civilization. A land bridge spanning three continents. There are few places on earth where geography is so central to understanding the current conflict. To grasp the complexities of the struggle between Arabs and Jews in the region, we need to know the maps. But there is a great lack of general knowledge about the shape and contour of the contested area. The main stream media generally do not provide maps and when they do they leave out critical information. The media often say that the clash between the Palestinians and the Jews is "as old as the hills." This is a fabrication. The conflict is really less than a century old and really develops with clarity after World War I. The role of the Great Powers, especially Britain and France in engineering the current situation is the focus of this program.
139	Enquete personnelle (Private Investigation)	2002	1:29:49	Ula Tabari	excerpt	https://www.palestinefilminstitute.org/en/pfp/archive/private-investigation			A documentary on how to live as a Palestinian in the Israeli Jewish State, holding an Israeli identity card, while carrying the Palestinian history, identity and dreams.	Arabic	English
140	Dahiet Al Bareed, District of the Post Office	2002	6:54	Rosalind Nashashibi	full film	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QZgD8-cbVZDZ9Hc7CXtcRfSqXRc6LX_S/		bookings@lux.org.uk	One slow, hot afternoon in a neighbourhood built to be a utopian suburb for employees of the Palestinian Post Office; now becomes a lawless no-man's-land between occupied East Jerusalem and Ramallah.	Arabic
141	Crossing Kalandia	2002	53:07	Sobhi al Zobaidi	full film	https://vimeo.com/39708643			Kalandia is the checkpoint that the director and his wife must cross every time they go to Jerusalem, experiencing the humiliations and the violence of segregation. In contrast with the horror of this daily bullying, the surrounding destruction and the ordinary suffering, Sobhi Al-Zobaidi conveys, in a very personal way, people’s capacity to go on living.	Arabic	English
142	Planet of the Arabs	2004	9:00	Jackie Reem Salloum	full film	https://vimeo.com/100777821			Planet of the Arabs is a experimental short on Hollywood’s negative depiction of Arabs and Muslims through the decades. Inspired by Dr. Jack Shaheen’s book “Reel Bad Arabs”,
143	Invasion	2003	1:01:01	Nizar Hassan	full film	https://vimeo.com/408772580		programmation@pyramidefilms.com	In Independence, Hassan makes his interviewees uncomfortable; but in Invasion, he makes his audience squirm in their seats as well. This isn’t accomplished through gory footage (although a close-up on a gunshot wound in a 77-year-old man’s hand certainly qualifies), but because of his interview with an Israeli soldier who bulldozed homes in Jenin. “We entered at night,” the soldier says, just as Hassan cuts to footage of young boys playing on the gate of a home in Jenin like a jungle gym. The viewers then meet various residents of Jenin, including Muhammed, who says that “every time the Israeli army enters the camp they occupy my house.” He adds, “During the eleven days of invasion we had no electricity, no water.” Hassan then portrays residents trying to live within the destruction. He finds young boys playing in a shelled-out school. They jump from desk to desk, tearing down and playing with posters hanging on the wall, while plaster dust flies everywhere. One of the boys holds up to the camera a bullet shell he finds in the middle of the classroom. In one house, Hassan documents a Star of David spray painted on the wall, as well as the door. Apparently the soldiers positioned themselves in the house to command the square below and to shoot through the windows. The mother of the man who owns the house tells Hassan, “Since ‘48 I haven’t had one good day that wasn’t filled with horror.” Hassan then cuts back to his interview with the Israeli soldier, who says, “Each [house] took something like ten minutes, and then they were gone.” However, not only were houses gone, but lives were lost as well. Ranya, a young Jenin resident, lost Taha, her fiance. She tells Hassan that they agreed about everything, including what color couches to purchase. They planned on having one boy and one girl. She mentions that in the last two days of Taha’s life, he told her “to be careful.” Because he couldn’t bury him properly, Ranya’s father buried his future son-in-law under his window. Hassan then interviews a family whose home was subject to graffiti by Israeli soldiers. Among the slogans written in Hebrew was, “Thank you for the warm hospitality. See you at the peace talks.” One of the family member says, “No one believed we’d see each other.” In one of the more chilling moments of the film, Hassan goes with one of the family members to her home for the first time after the invasion. As she holds her child, the young woman quietly looks around, and sees her possessions strewn about the floor and her children’s stuffed animals lying on the ground. The viewer is then transported back to the interview with the Israeli soldier. As they watch footage of residents looking for a body that was trapped in the rubble, the soldier asks Hassan, “Everything collapsed on him?” He then proceeds to claim that the man’s death could have been prevented if he had laid down in the street. Hassan, completely in control of the interview, then informs the soldier, whom we now know is named Yuval, that the man was handicapped. The soldier seems more uncomfortable, and tells Hassan, “this is a case of miscommunication,” and adds that he is sure that he “didn’t tear a house on anyone.” However, it is hard to excuse what is shown next as a case of miscommunication. The aforementioned 77 year old man, named Ali Yousef Faid, explains how he was shot in the hand by a sniper while escorting his daughter-in-law to a nearby school for shelter. While lying on the ground, a soldier told the man to stay still, and then proceeded to shoot a second bullet into his leg. Yuval then admits that “There were horrors, but none that I caused.” Hassan asks him why he wasn’t a conscientious objector, and he responds, “Someone will do the job … Someone had to do it.” Hassan then shows to Yuval footage one of his friends laughing while explaining that Yuval tore down a building to dispose his excrement without being killed, but then adds that Yuval was traumatized by his experience in Jenin. Yuval, who at first offered little physical reaction to Hassan’s questions and put up a tough-guy facade, seems to soften, and acknowledges, “I even have dreams about what happened there.” Yuval, after watching the interview of him that took place on the waterfront on a sunny day, asks, “how does this fit in the film?” Yuval, who is then revealed to be a fisherman, is clearly aware how much he and his friend’s interview contrasts with the footage of destruction and devastation in Jenin. Aware of Yuval’s vulnerability, Hassan shoots close-ups of his face, forcing the viewer to recognize that this man was one of the perpetrators of the destruction, and yet he is still human. Although this method of humanizing the “enemy” may anger or upset some audiences and cause them to wonder why Hassan is giving the soldier a voice, it is effective. Viewers are forced to study his face and recognize that he is indeed a fellow human being. And yet Hassan refrains from moralizing the soldier’s story; he lets the viewers take away what they want. In some ways this is a noble effort; if the U.S. and Israeli media made the same efforts to portray Palestinians as complex human beings, and not as blood-thirsty suicide bombers, maybe a genuine peace dialogue could start and Hassan could take a break from asking his tough questions.	Arabic, Hebrew	English
144	Me 2	2003	2:04	Taysir Batniji	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scuy14BWtXk		https://www.taysirbatniji.com/	A jerky self-portrait dancing to a Gloria Gaynor song (“I Will Survive”) heard during a street carnival. I spin around myself in my appartment. This video, made at the beginning of the Irak war in 2003 is a superimposition of two simultaneous shots. I turn while looking at myself turning. I’ve chosen this impromptu movement as a personnal reaction against the war and its violent, even immoral, representation by the media.
145	Dreamy Visions	2003	1:36:24	Waha Al-Raheb	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=071SfPMn5Ug			The film is about a dreamy girl who belongs to a middle class family. She is dominated by her father who is characterised by severe authority, goodness and tenderness, by conservatism and liberty. The family lives in a heterogeneous quarter with contradictions among its inhabitants.	Arabic	English
146	I Am Palestine	2003	15:43	Suha Araj	full film	https://vimeo.com/20988421		suhamaria@gmail.com	Millions of separate lives, yet one collective experience, I am Palestine is a window into what it means to be a Palestinian and how a profound hope holds a people together. For Palestinians, there is a story to be told, a purpose to exist, and a reason to believe in the future.	English
147	Route 181: Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel	2003	1:25:08	Michel Khleifi & Eyal Sivan	excerpt	https://vimeo.com/ondemand/route181		https://www.momento-films.com/	In the summer of 2002, Eyal Sivan and Michel Khleifi traveled together for two months from the south to the north of their country. In order to take this journey in their homeland, they traced it on a roadmap and named it "route 181". A common vision of an Israeli and a Palestinian, a baffling voyage through Palestine-Israel.	Arabic, Hebrew	English, French, Arabic, Dutch, Hebrew, Italian
148	Going for a Ride	2003	15:00	Nahed Awwad	full film	https://vimeo.com/307011949			Documenting the Art Installation “Going for a Ride?” made by the Palestinian Artist Vera Tamari. The installation is a statement on the aggressive and deliberate crushing of hundreds of privately-owned cars by Israeli tanks in Ramallah and El-Bireh during the military incursions in the two towns in 2002. It focuses on crushed cars because of the powerful meaning cars usually carry: freedom, the open road, travel and movement. In the film, the cars are brought to life again by searching into the memories of those who rode them	Arabic	English
149	Palestine Is Still the Issue	2003	52:49	Tony Stark	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17rppuSZeng			Palestine Is Still the Issue is a 2002 Carlton Television documentary, written and presented by John Pilger, and directed by Tony Stark, inspired by the book Drinking The Sea at Gaza by Amira Hass. Pilger visits the Middle East and tries to discover why peace is elusive.	English, Arabic	English
150	Matzpen	2003	54:22	Eran Torbiner	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upoACIfPIzs			Matzpen, the Israeli socialist organization, has never had more than a few dozen active members. Still, at the end of the sixties and beginning of the seventies, it was considered a real threat to the Israeli political and social consensus. Most of Matzpen’s members were Israeli born, coming from the deep core of Israeli society. Their fight against Zionism and against the occupation, as well as their contacts with Palestinian and European left-wing activists, were the cause of threats, slander, as well as political and social isolation. The film touches on the main issues of the Zionist-Palestinian struggle, through the eyes of some of the organization’s prominent figures, their ideas, opinions and activities, then and today. The film was shot in Israel, Palestine, Jordan, U.K and Germany between 1999 – 2003.	Hebrew, Arabic, English	English
151	Women Beyond Borders	2003	58:31	Jean Khalil Chamoun	full film	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LB6jjI7-K6m1nw-1isEhnupgvW4QehHf/		yshazli@mifegypt.com	Acclaimed director Jean Chamoun looks at the lives and works of some of the women who have joined in the fight for their Palestinian homeland. We learn of young resistance fighter Kifah Afifi’s experience as a survivor of the 1982 Shatila massacre in Lebanon when she was just twelve years old. She tells about fighting the Israeli occupation of South Lebanon in the 1990s and of her imprisonment in the Khiam detention facility, which was run by Israel’s auxiliary militia, the South Lebanon Army.	Arabic	English
152	Chic Point: Fashion for Israeli Checkpoints	2003	7:02	Sharif Waked	excerpt	https://vimeo.com/526331594		https://www.vdb.org/titles/chic-point-fashion-israeli-checkpoints	Chic Point is a seven minute video that ponders, imagines, and interrogates "fashion for Israeli checkpoints." Set to the backdrop of a heavy rhythmic beat, men model one design after another in an exploration of form and content. Zippers, weaved nets, hoods, and buttons serve the unifying theme of exposed flesh.	n/a	n/a
153	Visit Iraq	2003	25:00	Kamal Aljafari	full film	https://vimeo.com/27797782		https://kamalaljafari.ar	Visit Iraq is a short about the abandoned Iraqi Airways office in Geneve, it was made during Kamal Aljafari studies at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne.	French, Arabic, English	English
154	3 cm Less	2003	1:00:20	Azza El-Hassan	full film	https://vimeo.com/409245686		https://www.azzaelhassanfilms.com/	3 CM LESS (the title comes from projections that the Palestinian children of today will grow up on average three centimeters shorter than their parents, thanks to the deprivations of occupation) is a complex, highly personal look at the impact decades of war has wreaked on families and friendships.	Arabic	English
155	From Here to There	2003	34:00	Samirah Alkassim	full film	https://youtu.be/5vVWCUVdQvY			Experimental documentary about a child’s imaginary space travel and the parallel wanderings of a traveler through Cairo during a moment preceding the 2003 war in Iraq.	Arabic	English
156	The Sun Doesn't Shine In The Camp	2004	34:36	Mika Minio-Paluello & Kelly Bornshlegel	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16_0u-vzSnM			The sun doesn't shine in the camp" is a 35 minute documentary on life in Balata Refugee Camp, Occupied Palestine. Filmed by international activists and Palestinians between December 2003 and March 2004, the film represents the suffering and struggle of the Palestinian people. Composed of interviews with Balata residents and footage from the 2003-2004 New Year's invasion, the film offers a unique view of Balata Refugee Camp. During this invasion, 5 people were killed, 2 homes were demolished and dozens were injured. The 30,000 residents were held under 24-hour home imprisonment for the four-week period without access to food, medical services or supplies. Yet the residents of the camp continued to resist by breaking curfew, throwing stones, walking past tanks to attend school. Raw street footage shows the conditions people were forced to live under and their acts of resistance. The soundtrack includes haunting but beautiful songs sung by children in Balata Camp. Some of these are available on this website. Interviews include: * The Abu Lel family speaking about their home being demolished by the IOF * Dalal Salami, local MP * Wafa Abu-Arab, teacher and coordinator of the local Disability Committee * Hala, a 14 year-old school student * Asem, an 18 year-old school student * Hamoudi, a 7 year-old school student and stone-thrower Copies of the film are available on DVD in NTSC (American-Japan) and PAL (European) formats. The film was made by activists on small budgets, and all donations will be used to towards the film collective. Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike	Arabic, English	English
157	Notre Musique	2004	1:19:30	Jean-Luc Godard	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFTuCu2hXFQ			In this three-part experimental film, director Jean-Luc Godard explores violence, media and morality. In the first segment, "Hell," actual battle footage from various world conflicts is intercut with scenes from war films. Next, in "Purgatory," journalists Judith (Sarah Adler) and Olga (Nade Dieu) travel to Sarajevo for a lecture featuring renowned poets, writers and Godard himself. In "Heaven," the final piece, Olga strolls by an isolated lake inexplicably occupied by the U.S. military.	French, Arabic, English	English
158	2000 Terrorists	2004	52:13	Peter Speetjens & Hanro Smitsman	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=L1ChzDzSbh4		www.peterspeetjens.com	In 1982, following Israel's invasion of Lebanon, the PLO was evacuated from Lebanon, while the international community undertook to protect Palestinians remaining in the country. However, Israeli defense minister Ariel Sharon declared that '2,000 terrorists' remained in Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. Monitored by the Israeli army, a Lebanese militia entered the camps to exterminate these remaining 'terrorists'. Two days later more than two thousand civilian inhabitants were killed: men, women and children, in what the United Nations officially declared to be genocide. The film centers on the search for justice of four survivors who are among a group that has initiated legal action against Sharon and others responsible for the killings. This movie tells the story of the horrendous massacres of Sabra and Chatila refugee camps in 1982, where the Israeli occupation army used Lebanese Christian Phalangists to exterminate over 2000 Palestinian civilians consisting mostly of women and children in 40 hours... The Phalangists also filed hundreds of people into the camp's stadium and most of the people never came back. The main forte of this documentary is that it's the work of a man who's neither an Arab nor an Israeli, so it's the closest thing to an impartial perspective... Although in 1983 an independent Israeli commission concluded that Ariel Sharon (previous Israel's PM) was indirectly responsible for the massacres, so there isn't really much argument about the historical facts anyway.
159	Transit	2004	6:30	Taysir Batniji	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8Kh0xg45z4
160	The Gate of Sun	2004	4:38:00	Yousry Nasrallah	excerpt	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsmxezr9zH0			Yousry Nasrallah’s powerful adaptation of Lebanese writer Elias Khoury’s epic novel of fifty years of Palestinian dispossession, exile, and resistance. The film follows the flight of Younes, his wife Nahila, and those around them, from their village in northern Palestine to a refugee camp in Lebanon. Some vow to continue the struggle, most simply struggle to survive. Unsparingly detailing the impact of the nakba (disaster) on Palestinian life and society and the refugees’ often-contentious relationship with their reluctant Lebanese hosts, Gate of the Sun spans generations, mixing personal stories with historical events.	Arabic	n/a	Only a segment of the film.
161	Edward Said: The Last Interview	2004	3:52:22	Mike Dibb	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1aNcjEKpQk		https://icarusfilms.com/if-said	Edward Said, University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, was one of the most important literary critics of the late 20th century, and for many years the most prominent spokesperson for the Palestinian cause in the United States. Born into a Palestinian family in Jerusalem in 1935, in 1948 Said and his family were dispossessed and settled in Cairo. Long a member of the Palestine National Council, after resigning from the PNC in 1991, Said wrote critically about the post-Oslo peace process and the political failures of Yasser Arafat and the PLO. Said was diagnosed with incurable leukemia in 1991, and struggled with the disease throughout the decade, while continuing to write and teach. Towards the end of his life, as the disease and chemotherapy treatments sapped his energy, he stopped giving interviews. However, less than a year before his death in September 2003, he made an exception and over the course of three days spoke at length with the filmmakers about his illness, his work, Palestine and politics, his life and education, and his continuing preoccupations.	English
162	In the Spider's Web	2004	46:17	Hannah Musleh	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtiAjojt3UI			In the Spider's Web is a 47-minute long documentary produced in 2004 by Al-Haq and directed by Hannah Musleh. The film is part of Al-Haq's campaign to stop collective punishment practiced by Israeli occupying forces against Palestinian civilians. Through In the Spider's Web Al-Haq provides an overview of these punitive measures against the Palestinian civilians. While the film mainly addresses the accounts of two women, it also highlights the impact that collective punishment has on the whole civilian population. The film also takes the audience to a girls; school in Hebron, where it shows a typical day in the lives of these students. The documentary also seeks to capture and relay some of the disastrous implications of the continuing construction of the Annexation Wall and the further expropriation of land for its construction.	Arabic	English
163	Until When	2004	1:15:54	Dahna Abourahme	full film	https://vimeo.com/user7513487		info@arabfilm.com	Set during the current Intifada, this documentary follows four Palestinian families living in Dheisheh Refugee Camp near Bethlehem. Fadi is 13 and cares for his 4 younger brothers, the Hammashes are a close-knit family who pass on the lessons of life with humor and passion, Sana is a single woman who endures long commutes to do community work, and Emad and Hanan are a young couple trying to shield their daughter from the harsh realities of the occupation. They talk about their past and discuss the future with humor, sorrow, frustration and hope. Until When paints an intimate in-depth portrait of Palestinian lives today.	Arabic	English
164	Palestine Remembered	2004	37:33	Dominique Dubosc	full film	https://vimeo.com/39790166		contact@dominiquedubosc.com	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 that most West Bank cities were under curfew at the time. Dominique Dubosc, the filmmaker, decided on the spot to accompany him. The film develops according to their two gazes, which play one against the other, or with the other, in two mediums, throughout the journey.	English, Arabic
165	Soraida, a Woman of Palestine	2004	1:59:00	Tahani Rached	full film	https://www.nfb.ca/film/soraida_a_woman_of_palestine/		trached0@gmail.com	This feature-length film introduces viewers to Soraida, a Palestinian woman who lives in Ramallah. In her neighbourhood the women do not all wear veils, the men do not rattle off empty political slogans, the young people do not strap bombs to their belts, and the children play together like kids everywhere. Taking us into the daily existence of Soraida, her family and neighbours, the film compels us to ask fundamental questions about life in the Middle East.	Arabic	English
166	Hreash House	2004	21:10	Rosalind Nashashibi	full film	https://drive.google.com/file/d/15Ar9pRmFyHlPzoNxJi3FUiLuCb6Sb25U		bookings@lux.org.uk	Hreash House shows an extended Palestinian family living a collective existence in a concrete block in Nazareth. It shows a feast and its aftermath during Ramadan. One family as an entire community.	Arabic
167	Kings and extras: digging for a palestinian image	2004	1:01:45	Azza El-Hassan	full film	https://vimeo.com/85322287		https://www.azzaelhassanfilms.com/	Azza el Hassan uses rare and 1970s and 1980s archival footage of the Palestinian national movement and a series of contemporary interviews with filmmakers, archivists and historians to explore the role of filmmaking and photography during this period. At the heart of the film is her search for answers as to the apparently mysterious 'loss' of the central Palestinian cinema archive in Beirut during the Israeli occupation.	Arabic	English
168	Our Music	2004	1:16:20	Jean-Luc Godard	full film	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TkfuDhtoVQhuoQufhTKe0Tjo5OqwmNwX/view?usp=sharing			In this three-part experimental film, director Jean-Luc Godard explores violence, media and morality. In the first segment, "Hell," actual battle footage from various world conflicts is intercut with scenes from war films. Next, in "Purgatory," journalists Judith (Sarah Adler) and Olga (Nade Dieu) travel to Sarajevo for a lecture featuring renowned poets, writers and Godard himself. In "Heaven," the final piece, Olga strolls by an isolated lake inexplicably occupied by the U.S. military.	French, Arabic	English	to enable English subtitles, download file and play in vlc with subtitle track set to 1 (English)
169	Death in Gaza	2004	41:42	James Miller	full film	https://youtu.be/stu6YpKZz0g			In 2003, documentarian James Miller began filming Palestinian children but was killed by an Israeli soldier before he could finish the project. Assembled from footage shot before his death, this film follows three children in the Gaza Strip city of Rafah. Twelve-year-old friends Ahmed and Mohammed, many of whose friends have been killed by Israeli forces, dream about martyrdom, while 16-year-old Najla has also lost many of her relatives. All three talk about their lives and hatred of Israel.	English, Arabic	English
170	The order of things	2004	1:53	Ziad Abbas, Dominique Dubosc	full film	https://vimeo.com/39714438			At the dead of night, one sometimes sees jeeps marching in, very slowly, as if they formed a procession. They stop in front of a house, embark a man and leave, just as they came. This man’s family, that is, the women and the children, come forth in the night for a moment, as if they were enjoying the night air. As for him, he will not again feel the free night air for many years – at best. All this is only in the order of things.	n/a	n/a
171	Rainbow	2004	39:03	Abdel Salam Shehadeh	full film	https://vimeo.com/39715503			Operation « Rainbow » resulted in the death and wounding of many residents of Gaza. Director Abdel Salam Shehadeh tells the story of the aftermath of this bombing, searching the memory (including his own) of those who were torn apart by this attack : « These are people who have crossed my path. Some of them rose from among the debris, carrying their tears. Some were looking for answers to worries that haunted them. Others were exhausted by contemplating reality. They were like me…	Arabic	English
172	A Few Crumbs for the Birds	2005	28:17	Nassim Amaouche & Annemarie Jacir	full film	https://vimeo.com/120970353		https://www.philistinefilms.com/	Director of Photography, editor & filmmaker Annemarie Jacir and filmmaker Nassim Amaouche came together to collaborate on a documentary sketch of the lives of a handful of men and women eking out a living in the Jordanian border town of Ruwayshed, a small-time oil-smuggling entrepot, truck stop, and the last stop before the Iraqi border.	Arabic, English	English
173	Surda Checkpoint	2005	20:29	Kasim Abid	full film (accessible with subscription)	https://www.istikana.com/en/episodes/surda-checkpoint-1			There are about 144 Israeli Army checkpoints strung across the West Bank and Gaza Strip.They control movement from one part of the Palestinian Territories to another. This film is about the Surda checkpoint, which is located on the road between Ramallah and Birzeit in Palestine. It tries to convey the rhythm of life at this crossing place; river of people and the changes over time; how people deal with the situation and adapt, or don’t, and how sometimes the mood changes from resignation to confrontation.	Arabic
174	Visit Palestine	2005	1:17:54	Kate Barlow	excerpt	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DIFwJfTfQA			What drives a young Westerner to volunteer as a peace activist in the Middle East? Visit Palestine follows Caiomhe Butterly—a young woman from Dublin, Ireland; who is one of a growing number of volunteers who risk their own lives to intervene in the long-running and bloody conflict of the occupation of Palestine. In this film, Butterly describes witnessing the aftermath of the attack on Jenin in April 2002, as we travel though communities at risk and see personal stories of those affected. Despite being threatened, shot in the leg and deported later that year, Butterly is determined to go back. In the interim, she brings her story back to her native Ireland at public meetings, receives a Time Magazine “European Hero Award”, and travels to post-war Iraq to visit the Palestinian refugee camps. She arrives back in Jenin, shortly before a young woman from that community, Hanadi Jaradat, blows herself up in a suicide bombing in Haifa. Activists such as Butterly are usually stereotyped as lunatics, meddlers or saints. This film offers an insight into a brave, honest, determined yet self-critical woman who takes direct action to the limit, with no quest for glory. She also serves as a conduit into the everyday lives of Palestinians, who are also usually presented in a one-dimensional way as fighters or victims, heroes or fanatics. The film gives us a rare chance to see what she calls “the spaces of beauty and joy” created by a people under occupation.	English, Arabic	English
175	Women in Struggle	2005	56:33	Buthina Canaan Khoury	full film	https://youtu.be/v0Va7-cNxf8			About Palestinian women imprisoned by Israel.	English, Arabic	English
176	The Fourth Room	2005	24:34	Nahed Awwad	full film	https://vimeo.com/267191356			Abu Jameel owns a small stationary in Ramallah. Nothing changed in his shop since the fifties. The lack of freedom of movement and military raids leave him with a general sense of insecurity. Director Nahed Awwad, approaches him gently, with tenderness, asks him about his dreams, his past, and his … secret rooms…	Arabic	English
177	Paradise Now	2005	1:31:21	Hany Abu-Assad	excerpt	https://vimeo.com/8159725		distribution@mad-solutions.com, info@arabfilm.com	Khaled (Ali Suliman) and Said (Kais Nashif) are Palestinian friends recruited by a terrorist group to become suicide bombers in Tel Aviv. Armed with explosives, they attempt to cross into Israel, but are pursued by suspicious border guards. Khaled returns to the terrorists, while Said sneaks into Israel and ponders detonating at another target. After Khaled and Said reunite to begin their mission again, Khaled has reconsidered, and tries to convince Said to give up the bombing as well.	Arabic	English
178	Looking Awry (again)	2005	30:52	Sobhi al Zobaidi	full film	https://vimeo.com/39710189			In 2001, I mocked the Oslo Peace Agreement with this film (Looking Awry), and in 2005, I mock the peace process again with the same film (only one scene is different).	English, Arabic	English
179	The Eye	2005	25:46	Mona Hatoum				bookings@lux.org.uk
180	Way Back Home	2006	32:54	Ghada Terawi	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XCpRuzWgMs			THE WAY BACK HOME is a journey in the lives of three Palestinians - Ghada, the filmmaker, Munira, the actress and Husni, the painter. Ghada, who raises the question of "home", takes a journey into her own past, looking for answers. Through this journey we are introduced to her scattered family, their history as fidae's (PLO fighters). Through Ghada's quest for answers we encounter Munira, who is searching for a better life in Palestine after a life in the Diaspora for nearly 35 years. Her search for a better financial, professional and personal life exposes us to her Diasporic life, moving from Kuwait to Tunisia to Amman and finally to Palestine. Husni's journey is more internal. It is a search for an identity which eluded him in exile. He returned to Palestine, as others did after the Oslo Peace Accords. During the last 11 years his search for identity has intensified, but he has not been able to find what he is searching for....so he retreats more and more inside himself.	Arabic	English
181	The Color of Olives	2006	1:37:00	Carolina Rivas	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9aQ4URxLME			Like many Palestinian families, the Amers live surrounded by the infamous West Bank Wall where their daily lives are dominated by electrified fences, locks and a constant swarm of armed soldiers. Through director Carolina Rivas' sensitive lens, we discover the private world of all eight members of the family. As their dramas unfold, we catch a glimpse of their constant struggles and the small, endearing details that sustain them, including olive trees, two small donkeys and their many friendships. Constructed with a combination of verité scenes and re-enactments, this poignant and richly crafted film offers its audience a much needed opportunity to reflect on the effects of racial segregation, the meaning of borders and the absurdity of war.	English, Arabic	English
182	A Year in Palestine	2006	16:51	Bassemah Darwish	full film	https://vimeo.com/43567198			A snapshot of the year I spent living in Palestine. Filmed in 2005-2006. Filmed by Bassemah Darwish Edited by Jennifer Hsu
183	Deir Yassin Remembered	2006	33:00	b.h. yael	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx8oPZTms4A		https://www.deiryassin.org/	Early in the morning of April 9, 1948, commandos of the Irgun (headed by Menachem Begin) and the Stern Gang attacked Deir Yassin, a village with about 750 Palestinian residents. The village lay outside of the area to be assigned by the United Nations to the "Jewish State"; it had a peaceful reputation. But it was located on high ground in the corridor between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Deir Yassin was slated for occupation under Plan Dalet and the mainstream Jewish "defense" force, the Haganah, authorized the irregular terrorist forces of the Irgun and the Stern Gang to perform the takeover. In all over 100 men, women, and children were systematically murdered. Fifty-three orphaned children were literally dumped along the wall of the Old City, where they were found by Miss Hind Husseini and brought behind the American Colony Hotel to her home, which was to become the Dar El-Tifl El-Arabi orphanage. Part of the struggle for self-determination by Palestinians has been to tell the truth about Palestinians as victims of Zionism. For too long their history has been denied, and this denial has only served to further oppress and deliberately dehumanize Palestinians in state of Israel, inside the "occupied territories", and outside in their diaspora. Some progress has been made. Westerners now realize that Palestinians, as a people, do exist. And they have come to acknowledge that during the creation of the state of Israel, thousands of Palestinians were killed and over 700,000 were driven or frightened from their homes and lands on which they had lived for centuries.	Arabic	English
184	Palestine, Summer 2006	2006	3:14	Annemarie Jacir	full film	https://vimeo.com/122295921		https://www.philistinefilms.com/	performance video. w/Annemarie Jacir road from jerusalem to ramallah w/ Enas Muthaffar Performed and edited by Annemarie Jacir	English
185	Occupation 101	2006	1:27:59	Abdallah Omeish, Sufyan Omeish	full film	https://vimeo.com/18333779			Filmmakers Abdallah and Sufyan Omeish examine the current and historical root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and U.S. political involvement.	English, Arabic	English
186	The Roof	2006	1:01:23	Kamal Aljafari	excerpt	https://vimeo.com/653728251		https://kamalaljafari.art/	The Roof is a very strong and personal documentary directed by the Palestinian film maker Kamal Aljafari, who lives in Germany and returns back to his homeland to see the present life of his closest and further family. He then talks with them about the past and leaves a question mark for the future. The film maker shares everyday life with his parents and sisters in Ramle where he was born and where his father’s family comes from. Later on he visits his uncle and the family in Jaffa where his mother’s family is from. We learn the family history together with the history of the Palestinians from Jaffa from the grandmother’s memories about 1948. The film’s beginning and its end are framed by dialogues with another Palestinian friend with an Israeli passport - a young lady working in Jerusalem who wants to become a judge. First the two of them talk about the imprisonment of the teenage film maker and his memories of the period, later on they drive and walk along the growing Separation Wall in Jerusalem. The leitmotif joining all the scenes is the concept of home and its strong emotional values that we all carry with us. Homes, walls and roofs mingle with peoples and their destinies, the identity questions hover above them. Diego Martinez Vignatti’s camarawork as well as the film’s beautiful sound track both emphasise and strengthen the pace and the content of this wonderful small documentary masterpiece. (LC)	Arabic	English
187	An Explanation: And Then Burn the Ashes	2006	6:41	Annemarie Jacir	full film	https://youtu.be/6UHg15TeL9s			An architectural exploration of Columbia University in New York where buildings only reflect each other, space is restricted, objects concealed or only partially revealed. Small, hidden imperfections. Set against a montage of real phone messages received by Columbia University faculty, the viewer's imagination contributes to this portrait reflecting an atmosphere of American college campuses today. —Philistine Films	English
188	Women's Testimonies of the Nakba	2006	10:00	Raneen Geries	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCRwLt8xD8I			This short documentary collects the oral history testimonies of five Palestinian women living inside Israel today. Four of the women are internally displaced refugees, unable to return to their villages and homes despite remaining within the boundaries of what became Israel in 1948 the fifth remains a resident of her original village, Tarshiha in the northern Galilee. The film aims to convey through these testimonies a sense of women's lives in rural Palestinian communities prior to, during, and after the Nakba, and by doing so to contribute to a fuller understanding of the different and vital roles played by Palestinian women during this period. The documentation forms part of a wider series of oral history projects undertaken by the Zochrot organisation in Israel.	Arabic	English
189	Encounter Point	2006	1:23:31	Julia Bacha, Ronit Avni	full film	https://justvision.org/encounterpoint		https://justvision.org	Filmmakers Ronit Avni and Julia Bacha examine the Bereaved Families Forum, a group made up of approximately 500 Palestinians and Israelis who have all lost loved ones in the ongoing violence in the region. Members of the forum join forces to bridge the gaps and promote peaceful coexistence between their peoples.	English, Arabic, Hebrew	English
190	Missing Gaza	2006	14:05	Sobhi al Zobaidi	full film	https://vimeo.com/39710783			A group of friends from Gaza are trapped in Ramallah without possibilities to visit their hometown, they miss their family, friends and even the stones from Gaza.	Arabic	English
191	Palestine Blues	2006	1:27:17	Nida Sinnokrot	excerpt	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7IbJp_UWsc			What is left for Palestinian farmers who learn that in 24hrs the Israeli Army will confiscate their lands for the construction of the wall? What do people do when their very survival is threatened by one of the world's most powerful armies? Palestine Blues tells the story of a village's confusion, desperation, and resistance, their daily victories and wrenching defeats. Unexpectedly filled with moments of poetry and humour this film's intimate access, unforgettable characters and story structure blur the line between documentary and narrative. Filmed at times with a hidden camera and at times under extreme duress, PalestinianAmerican filmmaker Nida Sinnokrot gives us a lasting chronicle of a people and their ancient lifegiving orchards, ever threatened by destruction.	English, Arabic	English
192	The Iron Wall	2006	57:28	Mohammed Alatar	full film	https://vimeo.com/364076302			In 1923 the prominent Zionist ideologue Vladimir Jabotinsky, wrote that,"Zionist colonization must either stop, or else proceed regardless of the native population. Which means that it can proceed and develop only under the protection of a power that is independent of the native population - behind an Iron Wall, which the native population cannot breach." From that day these words became the official and unspoken policy of the Zionist movement and the state of Israel. Settlements were used from the outset to create a foothold in Palestine. After 1967 and the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, the settlement project was revived to create "facts on the ground" and make the creation of a Palestinian state there impossible. There are now over 200 settlements and outposts throughout the West Bank blocking the emergence of a contiguous Palestinian territory. The Iron Wall exposes this phenomenon, following the timeline, size, and population of the settlements, and their impact on the peace process.	Arabic	English
193	Refugees for Life	2006	48:08	Hady Zaccak	excerpt	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm0a2h9F4PU		info@hadyzaccak.com	Three families of Palestinian Refugees living in gatherings- Tyre, South of Lebanon and a human rights activist make you discover the difficult life conditions of Palestinian Refugees, their daily life, their aspiration to communicate with their relatives in Germany and their continuous waiting.	English
194	Leila Khaled: Hijacker	2006	1:01:50	Lina Makboul	full film	https://vimeo.com/ondemand/leilakhaled		.	Palestinian Swedish filmmaker Lina Makboul documents the life of and interviews Leila Khaled, the first female hijacker who became a celebrity in her efforts to publicize the cause of Palestine.	English, Arabic	English
195	Out of Place: Memories of Edward Said	2006	2:18:00	Makoto Satô	excerpt	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5O1n1LD0hg		https://icarusfilms.com/if-place	Borrowing its title from the author's 2000 memoir, OUT OF PLACE traces the life and work of Edward Said (1935-2003), the Palestinian-born intellectual who wrote widely on history, literature, music, philosophy and politics. Filmed in Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Egypt, and the U.S., this feature-length documentary traces Said's childhood influences and celebrates his intellectual legacy, especially the importance of his work in literary criticism and postcolonial studies, his love of music, his role on the Palestinian National Council and his troubled relationship with Yasir Arafat. film still Visiting the sites of his birthplace in Jerusalem, his boyhood homes in Lebanon and Cairo, and his New York City apartment, OUT OF PLACE explores Said's status as a refugee, his sense of always feeling "out of place"—personally, geographically and linguistically—a theme he developed in his memoir, explaining how everyone, in a sense, is comprised of "multiple identities." film still OUT OF PLACE imaginatively blends readings from Said's memoir and other key writings, family home movies dating back to 1947, and interviews with Arab, Israeli and American thinkers, including many of Said's colleagues, family and friends, who offer personal reminiscences as well as statements on the importance of his work. Among the notable educators, historians, novelists, politicians, and artists who appear in the film are Ilan Pappe, Elias Khoury, Azmi Bishara, Daniel Barenboim, Rashid Khalidi, Michel Warschawski, Noam Chomsky and Dan Rabinowitz, among many others. film still The themes of reconciliation and coexistence that Said fought for throughout his life are further illuminated by a visit with a Palestinian family in a refugee camp in Syria and a family of Mizrahim (Arabic Jews) in Israel, a memorial conference held at Bir Zeit University on the West Bank, and scenes at other sites in Israel and the West Bank. OUT OF PLACE is thus both a fascinating biographical film on one of the most acclaimed cultural critics of the postwar world as well as an engaging examination of many of the cultural and political issues to which he devoted his life.	English
196	Sound of the Street	2006	3:00	AnneMaire Jacir	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlN7ZG4ZVo4		https://www.philistinefilms.com/	Annemarie Jacir focuses on the view of a handful of ants moving on a surface. As symbols of industriousness, ants appear organically busy with their daily routines. In the background, music and several voices talk about politics and gossip. When a barrier suddenly appears, it generates a disconnection between the voices and the movement of the ants.	Arabic
197	What is natural contains variety	2006	14:00	Samirah Alkassim	full film	https://vimeo.com/89348491			Single channel video installation that explores landscape in Jordan. It runs twice, intended to be a loop.	Arabic	English
198	About the Sea	2007	9:04	Sobhi al-Zobaidi'	full film	https://vimeo.com/94484957			An exploration into the vanishing landscape of Palestine. Young Palestinians talk about their longing for the sear that has disappeared.
199	Balconies	2007	12:41	Kamal Aljafari	full film	https://vimeo.com/user8154531		https://kamalaljafari.art/	An experimental meditation focusing on the deteriorated and unfinished balconies of the home town of Kamal Aljafari, Ramla, and inspired by Romance sonámbulo by Federico García Lorca: "But now I am no longer me, and my house is no longer my House…"	n/a	n/a
200	The Land Speaks Arabic	2007	61:00	Maryse Gargour	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfFN8gw1jSI			This excellent documentary on one of the most pressing issues of our time brings together rarely seen footage of Palestine before 1948 juxtaposed with historical research, eyewitness accounts, stunning choreography, moving testimonials, and historical documents. We can state the fact that before the Zionist project began in Palestine it was more heavily populated than the United States of today. We can state that Palestine 20 years or even fifty years after the Zionist project was launched was still predominantly Arab. But it is one thing to state a fact and another to have seen it or lived it. The next best thing is to have a film that shows you a video of the era and pictures of the documents of the era. That is what this film does in a very professional, practical, and effective way. ... Letters in European languages exchanged between European Zionists and European imperialists are read followed by scenes of the impact of these blueprints of social engineering. Articles from newspapers of the late 19th century and early 20th century report on the progress (a poor choice of word in this context) of the colonisation project. We see through documents, including news reports and letters, that the word colonisation was used by the Zionist colonizers, when their writings and their speeches expressed the ideas of replacing the natives with the new population from Europe. We hear from Ahad Haam, Israel Zangwill, Yosef Weitz, Chaim Weitzmann, Theodor Herzl, and David Ben-Gurion.	Arabic, French, English	English
201	5 Minutes from Home	2007	1:26:58	Nahed Awwad	full film	https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=390124535596203&ref=watch_permalink			Nahed Awwad discovers that life has not always been like this, and that this sad spot used to be a place where international aircrafts landed.	Arabic	English
202	Drying Up Palestine	2007	28:51	Rima Essa & Peter Snowdon	full film	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Bsn7gquEQvf46hYZAS6qn57mSCJbAw2w/			A portrait of the stresses and strains imposed on Palestinian society by Israel's almost total control over access to water and sewage facilities in the West Bank, told in the words of ordinary people. A compelling picture of the impact of military occupation on everyday life.	Arabic	English
203	Jerusalem… The East Side Story	2007	56:41	Mohammed Alatar	full film	https://vimeo.com/408348901			The film documents Palestinian everyday's life under Isreali occupation in East Jerusalem. It uncovers Isreals policy of judaizing the city in order to gain Jewish majority by driving out Palestinian people from the city. The documentary includes interviews with Palestinian as well as Isreali political leaders, political analysts and human right activist,	Arabic	English
204	Stranger in my home Jerusalem	2007	37:48	Sahera Dirbas	full film	https://youtu.be/gKY9a2S2yk4			The film about the occupied Palestinian houses in Jerusalem.And How the Palestinian displaced visit their houses again In Tabeyeh, Baqaa , Thoury and Katamon neigbourhood.	Arabic	English
205	RiCo in the Night	2007	8:23	Mohanad Yaqubi	full film	https://vimeo.com/39713485		info@idiomsfilm.com	In the night(mare) of Ramallah, in the fear of ending up in the hospital, through the icy dream of an inhuman hypermarket, RiCo tumbles down to the final place where he is shot (by the camera).	Arabic	English
206	33 Days	2007	1:09:36	Mai Masri	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_6tcQw56sw		maimasri@gmail.com	In the 2006 war between Israel and Lebanon, around 1,350 people lost their lives, with approximately 1,200 of them being Lebanese civilians. In her acclaimed documentary "33 Days," Palestinian filmmaker Mai Masri followed the lives of four individuals as they struggled to survive the conflict in Lebanon, providing a human face to the war victims. The first person "33 Days" follows is the director of a theater in Beirut who offers shelter to children arriving in Beirut from southern Lebanon after fleeing the bombings. The second person is an aid worker responsible for coordinating emergency relief efforts, the third is a journalist working for an underground TV station, and the last is a mother nursing her newborn baby. Through their stories, Mai Masri sheds light on the war's impact on its victims. This isn't the first time that Masri, one of the most revered Arab filmmakers, has explored the consequences of a war between Israel and Lebanon. Early in her career, she made "Under the Rubble," a documentary that depicted Beirut during the Israeli invasion of 1982.	n/a	n/a
207	Background Noise	2007	17:48	Taysir Batniji	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HByy6EPFjs		https://www.taysirbatniji.com/		n/a	n/a
208	Tell Your Tale, Little Bird	2007	1:30:32	Arab Loutfi	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdkoxBjKM1Q			Seven militant women (fedaiyat) of the revolutionary generation tell the story of the Palestinian resistance through accounts of their own lives. Cut from 35 hours of interviews with leaders of the armed struggle. Tell Your Tale Little BirdDirected by Arab Loutfi.	Arabic	English
209	Everywhere was the Same	2007	11:38	Basma Alsharif	excerpt	https://vimeo.com/39827007		https://www.vdb.org/titles/everywhere-was-same	In an empty room, a slideshow projection of abandoned places plays alongside the narrative of two girls who find themselves on the shores of a pre-apocalyptic paradise. Told through subtitle text that weaves fact and fiction together, the story of a massacre unfolds. When the image and text malfunctions and the story is no longer comprehensible, the video wanders away from the room of the slideshow, allowing us to see what is happening elsewhere.
210	John Berger reads Ghassan Kanafani's Letter From Gaza.	2008	17:24	Perry Ogden	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_msusYXQIfc			In an address to the inaugural Palestine Festival of Literature (2008) John Berger gives a moving reading of Ghassan Kanafani's "Letter from Gaza"	English
211	Where the Birds Should Fly?	2008	9:08	Fida Qishta	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk0ZJl1YKVg			In December of 2008 Israel launched a devastating attack on Gaza. A month of bullets, bombs, rockets white phosphorus, tanks and bulldozers left 1400, mostly civilians, dead and this section of Occupied Palestine in rubble. But this is not a story of misery amongst the rubble. It is the compelling and moving story of two remarkable young women, the future of Palestine, who personify the struggle to maintain humanity, humor and hope, to find some degree of normality in the brutal abnormality that has been imposed on them. Mona is an 11 yr old girl of remarkable wisdom. Her family died under Israeli rockets. Fida Qishta, the filmmaker, is a 27 year old journalist. With her crew she has documented the lives of the people of Gaza. This is a Palestinian film, the first made by Palestinians. But it is a story that resonates across the bitter history of man's inhumanity to man: in the oil soaked poverty of the Niger Delta, in the destroyed state of Iraq, in the fierce resistance of the Warsaw Ghetto.	Arabic	English
212	A Handful of Earth	2008	51:41	Sahera Dirbas	full film	https://palestinefilms.org/en/Film/2008/A-Handful-Of-Earth			The film documents how Palestinian oral history has passed from Nakbah generation to new generation of Palestinian refugees originally from "Tirat Haifa" living now in Haifa, Ramallah, Jordan and Syria	Arabic	English
213	Al Nakba	2008	3:12:00	Rawan Damen	full film	https://www.aljazeera.com/program/featured-documentaries/2013/5/29/al-nakba		Al Jazeera	A series on the Palestinian ‘catastrophe’ of 1948 that led to dispossession and conflict that still endures. “The Nakba did not begin in 1948. Its origins lie over two centuries ago….” So begins this four-part series on the ‘nakba’, meaning the ‘catastrophe’, about the history of the Palestinian exodus that led to the first Arab-Israeli war in 1948, and the establishment of the state of Israel. This sweeping history starts back in 1799 with Napoleon’s attempted advance into Palestine to check British expansion and his appeal to the Jews of the world to reclaim their land in league with France. The narrative moves through the 19th century and into the 20th century with the British Mandate in Palestine and comes right up to date in the 21st century and the ongoing ‘nakba’ on the ground. Arab, Israeli and Western intellectuals, historians and eye-witnesses provide the central narrative which is accompanied by archive material and documents, many only recently released for the first time.	English, Arabic, Hebrew	English
214	Salt of This Sea	2008	1:45:05	Annemarie Jacir	full film	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KhzyZFMhCG2yYgRJLcyKmRQoJfGCHCf_/		https://www.philistinefilms.com/	Soraya, 28, decides to go to Palestine, where her family was exiled since 1948. Upon arrival, she seeks to reunite with her grandfather.	Arabic	English
215	7 Minutes Working	2008	7:25	Mohanad Yaqubi	full film	https://vimeo.com/3421259		info@idiomsfilm.com	a short video dealing with the issues of workers in Palestine, especially in the construction sector, the video approach from the visuals of workers body, and their relation with space and tools. i was commissioned by RIWAQ (center of architectural conservation- Palestine), as part of video art program, and the topic i picked was "Job creation through conservation". the Video is a different perspective of the daily Palestinian life in the west bank.	n/a	n/a
216	A Boy A Wall And A Donky	2008	4:02	Hany Abu-Assad	full film	https://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/play/2087/a-boy-a-wall-and-a-donkey-stories-on-human-rights		distribution@mad-solutions.com	Intent on making a film, a group of young boys don't let limited resources stand in their way. They decide to go where the cameras are... AbuAssad's (Paradise Now, Rana's Wedding, Ford Transit) short was produced under the auspices of the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights as part of a collection of works by artists from around the world. Each film tackles one of the major themes highlighted in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: culture, development, dignity and justice, environment, gender and participation.	Arabic	English
217	Slingshot Hiphop	2008	1:26:16	Jackie Salloum	full film	https://vimeo.com/195690477		https://slingshothiphop.com/	Slingshot Hip Hop is a 2008 documentary film directed by Jackie Reem Salloum that traces the history and development of hip hop in the Palestinian territories from the time DAM pioneered the art form in the late 1990s.	Arabic. English	English
218	Memory of the Cactus	2008	41:31	Hannah Musleh	full film	https://youtu.be/wQFYq2Ex6Cw			A documentary film revealing the true story behind apartheid Israel's "Canada Park", a story of dispossession, destruction and continuing displacement. In 1967 the three Palestinian villages of 'Imwas, Yalo and Beit Nouba in the Latroun enclave of the West Bank were razed to the ground after apartheid Israel occupied the territory. Today, the residents of those villages remain displaced and barred from returning, while apartheid Israel treats the land as if it were part of the "Jewish state" and refuses to acknowledge the Palestinian history of the area. Citizens of the occupation state enjoy barbecues and picnics in the Jewish National Fund's "Canada Park", oblivious to the crimes perpetrated in their names on that very land.	Arabic	English
219	Palestinian Stories	2008	37:25	Dominique Dubosc	full film	https://vimeo.com/224100726		contact@dominiquedubosc.com	These ten stories (dreams, urban legends, letters from prison, testimonies…) were filmed in Palestine from 2001 to 2008	Arabic	English
220	Over their Dead Bodies: Tantura, the Forgotten Massacre	2008	1:54:10	Arab Loutfi	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyCeFbTUlwM			This film explores testimonies from expelled residents of Tantura, a former Palestinian Arab fishing village that was located 28 kilometers south of Haifa on the Mediterranean coast of Palestine. In May 1948, the village was attacked by Jewish Haganah forces as part of a regional “cleansing” operation in the foothills of Mount Carmel, with the goal of expelling the Arab residents. Many Palestinians were killed and hundreds were imprisoned. Those who survived fled to the nearby village of Fureidis, which was spared destruction when Jewish residents of nearby towns interceded on its behalf. Other survivors became refugees in the West Bank, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria. Kibbutz Nahsholim and Moshav Dor were subsequently built on land on the outskirts of Tantura. A mass grave is believed to be located under a parking lot, but current residents oppose exhuming the bodies.	Arabic	English
221	To My Father	2008	50:00	Abdel Salam Shehada	full film	https://vimeo.com/56683139			“Those were days when people prettier, when eyes were filled with colour, even in black and white. What has changed - the camera, or the eye?" asks Abdel Salam Shehadah's poetic homage to the studio photographers of the 1950's - 70's. Set partly in a refugee camp in Rafah, the film looks back at fifty years of Palestinian and Arab history, told through the photographs, reportage and the voices of these photographers today.	Arabic	English
222	The never ending wall	2008	33:20	Dominique Dubosc	full film	https://vimeo.com/886605365		contact@dominiquedubosc.com	You don't need to look all the way to the end: there isn't one.	n/a	n/a
223	Rachel	2008	1:39:00	Simone Bitton	full film (accessible with subscription)	https://americas.dafilms.com/film/8162-rachel			The film is an enquiry into the death of Rachel Corrie, a young American peace activist, crushed by an Israeli bulldozer in the Gaza Strip in March 2003, while she was trying to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian home. It is also a cinematographic meditation on youth, idealism and political utopia.	English, Arabic, Hebrew	English
224	Laila’s Birthday	2008	1:09:57	Rashid Masharawi	full film	https://youtu.be/TfIc5O3s0go		info@idiomsfilm.com	Abu Laila used to be a judge, but because the government doesn't have the means to renew his assignment he is forced to be a taxi driver. On the day his daughter Laila becomes seven years old his wife insists that he'll be at home early and bring her a present and a cake. Abu Laila's has nothing else on his mind then completing this mission. But the daily life in Palestine has other plans.	Arabic	English
225	We Began By Measuring Distance	2009	19:06	Basma Alsharif	excerpt	https://vimeo.com/39825624		https://www.vdb.org/titles/we-began-measuring-distance	Long still frames, text, language, and sound are weaved together to unfold the narrative of an anonymous group who fill their time by measuring distance. Innocent measurements transition into political ones, examining how image and sound communicate history. We Began by Measuring Distance explores an ultimate disenchantment with facts when the visual fails to communicate the tragic.	Arabic	English
226	Videomappings: Aida, Palestine	2009	45:47	Till Roeskens	full film	https://vimeo.com/888396103			I have asked inhabitants of Aida Camp, Bethlehem, to draw maps of what they see around them.The drawing process as well as the stories related to those subjective geographies have been recorded on video. Through six chapters, step by step you’ll discover the refugee camp and it’s surroundings, you’ll follow the routes of some persons and their attempts to deal with the state of siege they live under. Let’s call it a tribute to resistance by going around obstacles, in times where the very possibility of that resistance seems to be vanishing.	Arabic	English
227	For Cultural Purposes Only	2009	8:15	Sarah Wood	full film	https://vimeo.com/29714181			An experimental film essay investigating the cultural importance of cinema. In an age dominated by the moving image what would it feel like to never see an image of the place that you came from? The Palestinian Film Archive contained over 100 films showing the daily life and struggle of the Palestinian people. It was lost in the Israeli siege of Beirut in 1982. Here interviewees describe from memory key moments from the history of Palestinian cinema. These scenes are drawn and animated. Where film survives, the artist’s impressions are corroborated. This is a film about reconstruction and the idea that cinema is an expression of cultural identity - that cinema fuels memory. Technical information Interviewees describe from memory scenes from the history of Palestinian cinema. An artist interprets the memory and draws what he hears. His drawings stand either for the original where the film is lost, or are corroborated by film imagery where the original film survives. These actions are interspersed with the story of the lost Palestinian Film Archive.	English
228	138 Pounds in My Pocket	2009	20:00	Sahera Dirbas	full film	https://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/play/9861/138-pounds-in-my-pocket-the-story-of-hind-al-husseini-women-war-and-welfare-in-jerusalem			In 1948, following the UN partition plan for Palestine, fighting broke out between Arabs and Jews. In April that same year, the young teacher Hind Al Husseini came across a large group of young children in Jerusalem. They were survivors of the massacre in Deir Yassin. Husseini took them in and established an orphanage in her Jerusalem home. Today, Dar alTifl alArabi is the largest Palestinian orphanage, providing education for more than 1,500 pupils. This new documentary by Sahera Dirbas (Stranger in My Home) asks how Husseini and her successors have each filled gaps left by the absence of a state able, or willing, to provide adequate welfare for disadvantaged children. Part biographical, it offers unique insight into the commitment and personal struggle of a remarkable Palestinian woman.
229	Olives	2009	12:11	Sobhi al-Zobaidi	full film	https://vimeo.com/93914172			on the destruction of Palestinian olive by Israel	Arabic	English
230	Jaffa - The Orange's Clockwork	2009	1:29:00	Eyal Sivan	full film (accessible with rental)	https://vimeo.com/ondemand/jaffa		Momento Films	Jaffa, the orange’s clockwork narrates the visual history of the famous citrus fruit originated from Palestine and known worldwide for centuries as "Jaffa oranges". The history of the orange is the history of this land. Through photography and cinema, poetry, paintings, workers of the citruses’ industry and historians, memory and present mythologies, Palestinians and Israelis cross and combine. The close reading of the “Jaffa” brand’s representation is a reflection on western orientalist phantasms surrounding the ‘holy land’ and the ‘State of Israel’ and a way to reveal the untold story of what was once a commune industry and symbol to Arabs and Jews in Palestine. Jaffa’s orange is one of the symbols that helped build the Zionist discourse about Palestine: a “desert we have made bloom”. Based on photographic and cinematographic documents, some going back as far as to the 19th century, Eyal Sivan’s film shows the orange groves at a time when Arab Jaffa was one of Palestine’s most populated and thriving cities. From the picking of the fruit to its packaging before exportation, the orange was a source of revenue for thousands of peasants and workmen, not only from Palestine, but from Egypt, Syria and Lebanon too. Jews and Arabs worked together in the orange groves. These images were progressively replaced by socialist realist images, Israeli style, depicting labor and songs, emancipated women in shorts, etc.: it was the spreading of the “Jewish Labor”, the socialist call to action, excluding the Arabs. In 1948, Jaffa was ruined under the bombs and most of its population was gone. Jaffa’s orange then became the symbol of an Arab-free Israel. An international advertising campaign imposed the name “Jaffa”, like a trademark, concealing the city of Jaffa, its more than a hundred-year-old orange groves, and the history of the Jewish Arab cooperation over this legendary fruit.. Director's statement Jaffa, the orange’s clockwork is a political essay unfolding the story of the invention and the visual history of the world’s wide famous citrus fruit originated in Palestine and known around the world as "Jaffa oranges". While the orange become the symbol of the Zionist enterprise and the state of Israel, for Palestinians it symbolises the lost of their homeland and its destruction. Through a careful reading of the visual representation of the brand, the film reflects on western phantasms related to the ‘Orient’ the ‘holy land’ and the State of Israel and unveils the untold story of what was ones a commune symbol and industry to Arabs and Jews in Palestine. The oranges of Jaffa, the fruits, the orchards, the brand name and the city - that gave to the fruit its name, are the backdrop of the commune Jewish-Arab life in Palestine before the establishment of Israel, the colonial covetousness, the account of obliteration, nationalization, then repudiation in order to propose a joint historical narrative.	French, Arabic, Hebrew	English
231	25 Thousand tents or more	2009	34:10	Ala'a Alsadi, Samer Salameh	full film	https://vimeo.com/10347374			This documentary explores the steadfastness of the Palestinian people in their struggle to survive and return to their homeland Palestine. It documents the lives of Palestinians currently stranded in Al-Tanaf detention camp in no man's land between the Iraqi-Syrian borders. It explores the lives of Palestinians who first found refuge in Iraq following the Zionist occupation of Palestine and the expulsion of its people in 1948. Following the US invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003, they have been forced to flee and find refuge elsewhere once again. This film gives voice to the suffering and heroism of Palestinians as they tell of personal experiences, the hardships they endure, what led them to flee Iraq, as well as their aspirations and hopes for the future.	Arabic	English
232	Bab al_wad	2009	8:38	Eitaan Isaacson	full film	https://vimeo.com/1161644			The story of the last family who operated and lived in the Khan at at Bab el-Wad (Shaar Hagai). This site is famous today both for it's location, on the highway between Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem, and for the battles that took place there during the 1948 war.	Arabic	English
233	The Zionist Story	2009	1:15:02	Ronen Berelovich	full film	https://youtu.be/ufLAitMq3zI			The Zionist Story, an independent film by Ronen Berelovich, is the story of ethnic cleansing, colonialism and apartheid to produce a demographically Jewish State. Ronen successfully combines archival footage with commentary from himself and others such as Ilan Pappe, Terry Boullata, Alan Hart and Jeff Halper. "I have recently finished an independent documentary, The Zionist Story, in which I aim to present not just the history of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, but also the core reason for it: the Zionist ideology, its goals (past and present) and its firm grip not only on Israeli society, but also, increasingly, on the perception of Middle East issues in Western democracies. These concepts have already been demonstrated in the excellent 'Occupation 101′ documentary made by Abdallah Omeish and Sufyan Omeish, but in my documentary I approach the subject from the perspective of an Israeli, ex-reserve soldier and someone who has spent his entire life in the shadow of Zionism. I hope you can find a moment to watch The Zionist Story and, if you like it, please feel free to share it with others. (As both the documentary and the archived footage used are for educational purposes only, the film can be freely distributed). I have made this documentary entirely by myself, with virtually no budget, although doing my best to achieve high professional standard, and I hope that this 'home-spun' production will be of interest to viewers." - Ronen Berelovich.	English
234	Oranges	2009	6:58	Maha Haj	full film	https://vimeo.com/32028315			An old man, a young man, and an orange tree Two neighbours, a garden, and no words exchanged What happens when interests clash and lines are crossed?	n/a	n/a
235	Home Front: Portraits from Sheikh Jarrah	2009	31:13	Rebekah Wingert-Jabi	full film	https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTpC_x7ZceOhlTzU6AFHh5_NdmaCN3XkX		https://justvision.org/	Getting beyond the sensational headlines and broad generalizations that normally dominate discussions of Jerusalem, Home Front captures voices rarely heard, of those struggling to stop settlement expansion in East Jerusalem and build a future of pluralism and equality in the city. Featuring the accounts of a Palestinian teenager forced to give up half his home to Israeli settlers, an American-born Israeli mother who gets drawn into the demonstrations after her children’s arrest, a Palestinian community organizer who brings local women to the forefront of the struggle, and a veteran of the Israeli army who becomes one of the campaign’s leaders, Home Front chronicles the resolve of a neighborhood, and the support it receives from the most unexpected of places.	English, Arabic, Hebrew	English
236	A Space Exodus	2009	5:52	Larissa Sansour	full film	https://vimeo.com/21372138		info@mecfilm.de	A Palestinian astronaut stakes a claim for her country.	Arabic	English
237	To Shoot An Elephant	2009	1:53:29	Alberto Arce, Mohammad Rujailah	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF6IW1iIwcw			Medics risk their lives to rescue and treat the wounded in the war-torn Gaza Strip.	Arabic	English
238	Pomegranates and Myrrh	2009	1:38:48	Najwa Najjar	excerpt	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgofDQxSGRQ		najjarnajwa@gmail.com	After her newlywed husband was captured by the Israeli army, the young dancer Kamar has to run the family's olive farm. She suffers from the fact that she can no longer pursue her passion, modern dance.	Arabic	English
239	Young Freud in Gaza	2009	58:07	Per-Åke Holmquist and Suzanne Khardalian	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffDgkQGiwV4			Life has been difficult for Palestinians under Israeli Occupation in the Gaza Strip since the Six Day War in 1967. Since the January 2006 electoral victory of Hamas and the blockade of Gaza's border by Israel, with unemployment soaring to 60% and food, water and medicine in short supply, the psychological needs of its traumatized population have never been greater. Professional psychologists, however, are in desperately short supply. YOUNG FREUD IN GAZA profiles Ayed, a young psychotherapist for the Palestinian Authority's Clinic for Mental Health, and shows his consultations with a variety of patients, both male and female, adults and children, in his office and during house calls, providing therapy or prescribing medication for depression, stress, anxiety attacks and suicidal tendencies. Filmed during 2006-2008, against the violent backdrop of armed clashes between Hamas and Fatah factions, Israeli missile attacks and the constant overhead presence of a surveillance dirigible, the film shows Ayed training young wives and mothers in deep-breathing exercises to calm anxiety, counseling maimed Hamas and Fatah militants in meditation techniques, and leading children in group therapy sessions in which they discuss their reaction to the death of siblings and draw pictures to cope with their emotions. film still YOUNG FREUD IN GAZA also shows Ayed at home, relating to his parents and other family members and friends, in the process revealing that this young mental-health doctor is struggling with some personal issues of his own, including serious doubts that he is able to help his patients. As he acknowledges, "Gaza needs a million psychologists."	Arabic	English
240	The Time That Remains	2009	1:49:28	Elia Suleiman	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtE20sNt3rY		info@arabfilm.com	THE TIME THAT REMAINS is a semi biographic film, in four historic episodes, about a family -my family – spanning from 1948, until recent times. The film is inspired by my father’s diaries of his personal accounts, starting from when he was a resistant fighter in 1948, and by my mother’s letters to family members who were forced to leave the country since then. Combined with my intimate memories of them and with them, the film attempts to portray the daily life of those Palestinians who remained in their land and were labeled « Israeli-Arabs », living as a minority in their own homeland.	Hebrew, Arabic, English	English
241	Fix Me	2009	1:38:00	Raed Andoni	full film (accessible with vod rental)	https://vimeo.com/ondemand/fixme/246990735		Akka Films	Inspired by his own psychological excavations, Andoni develops the concept to apply to modern-day Palestine, a project that inspires this witty, personal and compelling film. Featuring a colorful array of characters, including members of the director's own family, Andoni explores the individual memories of Palestinians, whose life experiences have been shaped by military occupation, oppression of the people and continuous erosion of citizens' rights. In a place so dominated by collective consciousness and identity, finding individuality becomes the focus of this fascinating - and moving - study.	Arabic	English
242	Arab Jahalin: Return to Tal Arad	2009	22:46	Malik al-Fasfus	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI3CEnXpoLk			The Arab Jahalin are the biggest Bedouin tribe in the West Bank, living primarily in the areas around Jerusalem. Originally from Tal Arad, near Bir Saba' in historic Palestine, the Jahalin were violently expelled from their homes during the 1948 Nakba (catastrophe) and forced to live as refuges in the West Bank. Following the 1967 occupation, Israeli military forces again targeted the Jahalin, expelling them from land confiscated for Jewish settlement. This campaign of ethnic cleansing continues into the present, as the Wall and expanding settlements around Jerusalem threatens to displace the Jahalin once again. This documentary is a collection of interviews with members of the Jahalin, who narrate the histories and experiences from 1948 until the present. The documentary is accompanied by a publication entitled: 'Arab Jahalin: From the Nakba to the Wall, which features a unique collection oral histories spanning, like the film, from 1948 until the present. Arab Jahalin also offers important analysis about the historical continuity and relationship between ethnic cleansing and settlement, highlighting the role of the Wall in the most current phase.
243	Golden Pomegranate Seeds	2009	14:06	Ghada Terawi	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyj826WRbJg			"Golden Pomegranate Seeds" is a Palestinian fairy tale about a girl who faced hardships in life. She bore her hardships patiently and silently for years, and then she lived happily ever after. Real women who lived in fear and suffering and then broke their silence, how will their stories end....	Arabic	English
244	The Last Station	2009	7:49	Ghada Terawi	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGgS8raew0s			The last Station is a personal experience of Exile, Return and the Dream of a Homeland. This journey between the Dream and the Reality contains lots of happiness, hope and yet disappointments.		English
245	Palestinian Refugees: Identity Without a Homeland.	2009	44:52	Perla Issa,Aseel Mansour, Adam Shapiro	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w_XVc7JuDs
246	Hisnet Baladna	2009	2:21	Najah Musallam	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ2vsErTskQ
247	Sweet Carob	2009	3:08	Laialy Kilani	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4aIPN_bKW0		Shashat Films
248	Hebron and Clay	2009	4:03	Amani Al-Sarhanah	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz4t2rC_0Ag		Shashat Films
249	From my Goats	2009	3:08	Dara Khader	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i-ghCj4cwY		Shashat Films
250	Jerusalem wakes-up	2009	2:41	Omaima Hamouri	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVgBoQOAzsE		Shashat Films
251	Bread	2009	3:03	Raghda Atmeh	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eio7kLk10lo		Shashat Films
252	Nervus Rerum	2009	32:00	The Otolith Group				https://lux.org.uk	The title of this work comes from Cicero’s Latin, meaning “the nerve of things.” Using Jenin refugee camp in the Palestinian Occupied Territories as its visual subject and a rich soundscape of excerpts from the writings of Fernando Pessoa and Jean Genet, Nervus Rerum confronts the difficulties of representation the people within this geographic enclave face. The Jenin camp was established in 1953, in order to provide shelter for Palestinians dispersed and expelled from their homes after the formation of Israel in 1948. The inhabitants of this camp resist resettling in order to keep their dispersed status, as to relinquish it would be to relinquish their claim upon their native home. As a result they have no political representation, rights, or status. In turn, Nervus Rerum disperses the sources it uses to represent these people and this place, exploring representation, transparency through opacity, and the form of the essay film in itself.
253	Diaries	2010	54:37	May Odeh	full film	https://vimeo.com/90059430		Odeh Films	"Diaries" is a documentary from a unique perspective of three woman living in Gaza who face a double siege. One is the Israeli occupation and another one is the quasi-religious authority that controls the torn city. Through their daily life, the three girls will share their fears, memories, thoughts and hope for a better life wide enough to fit their dreams. The film will take us on a journey into their own Gaza, the Gaza that no one really knows.	Arabic	English
254	Beyond Words: Palestinian Voices in Search of Justice.	2010	15:03	Al-Haq	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdVKtElMF-E		Al-Haq
255	Jihad II	2010	6:00	Suha Shoman	full film	https://vimeo.com/102460192			On the occasion of the Human Rights Day, which also marks the 62nd Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Al-Haq is pleased to launch its short documentary film entitled “Beyond Words: Palestinian Voices in Search of Justice”. Through this documentary, Al-Haq is giving voice to Palestinians living under Israeli occupation. Their stories are but an example of the human rights violations committed in the Occupied Palestinian Territory on a daily basis and remain unpunished.	Arabi	English
256	Aisheen: Still Alive in Gaza	2010	86:00	Nicolas Wadimoff	full film (accessible with vod rental)	https://vimeo.com/ondemand/aisheen/236628462		https://www.akkafilms.ch/en/aisheen-still-alive-in-gaza-2	Where is the ghost town? », asks the little boy to the theme park attendant. « It’s there, right there. But it has been bombed… Do you want to see it? » It is with these words that the film, « Aisheen», begins – an impressionist journey through a devastated Gaza after the war. And the ghost town? Gaza is the ghost town.	Arabic	English
257	Blessed Blessed Oblivion	2010	21:00	Jumana Manna	full film	https://vimeo.com/33503093		http://www.jumanamanna.com/	BLESSED BLESSED OBLIVION weaves together a portrait of masculine performativity in East Jerusalem, as manifested in gyms, body shops and hair dressing parlors. Inspired by Kenneth Anger's Scorpio Rising (1963), the video uses visual collage and the musical soundtrack as ironic commentary.	Arabic	English
258	Port of Memory	2010	1:00:09	Kamal Aljafari	excerpt	https://vimeo.com/653727226		https://kamalaljafari.art/	A Palestinian family awaits expulsion from their house by Israeli authorities in a crumbling district now being gentrified in the ancient port city of Jaffa. Personal and cinematic memories, and a very uncertain future, weigh heavily over the residents’ everyday rituals.	Arabic	English
259	News Time	2010	54:44	Azza El-Hassan	full film (accessible with subscription)	https://www.istikana.com/en/episodes/news-time-1		https://www.azzaelhassanfilms.com/	It is ‘news time’, not ‘film time’ - this is how documentary filmmaker Azza El-Hassan explains the fact that she failed to find anyone willing to make a film with her. All the crewmembers are busy reporting the situation in Ramallah, which is deteriorating daily since the intifada. So she points her camera at the ghost town with its deserted streets, which challenge her to extract some beauty from them. Someone like her landlord, who declares his love to his giggling wife, whom he has known for twenty-five years. But they, too, leave the town when the war planes fly over, leaving El-Hassan with four boys who are the only ones who have not yet abandoned their neighbourhood. They talk about the daily threats they have to cope with, the stones they throw and the fears they have to suppress.	Arabic	English
260	This is my Picture when I was Dead	2010	1:14:33	Mahmoud Al-Massad	full film (accessible with subscription)	https://www.istikana.com/en/episodes/this-is-picture-1			Athens, 1983. The world press reports that 4-year old Bashir is killed in the assassination of his father, Mamoun Mraish, a top PLO lieutenant. Father and son are declared dead but when they arrive at the hospital Bashir turns out to be still alive. But if Bashir is fully alive today, what happened to the dream he and his father were believed to have died for?	English, Arabic	English
261	9 Days in Wahat al-Salam Palestine	2010	51:59	Ahlam Shibli	full film	part 1: https://vimeo.com/135621507, part 2: https://vimeo.com/136075555, part 3: https://vimeo.com/136075968			A document of a nine days meetings in 2003, between 8 Palestinian and 8 Israelis in their 20s–30s, in the Israeli–Palestinian village Wahat al-Salam / Neve Shalom, recording the participants' discussions, and the development of their awareness of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict as well as their roles in it, analyzing their own identities through interactions with each other.	Arabic	English
262	Gaza-strophe, Palestine	2010	1:35:08	Samir Abdallah, Kheridine Mabrouk	full film	https://vimeo.com/9882505			Samir Abdallah and Kheredine Mabrouk bring the images of Gaza, Palestine, this country that is more and more becoming methaporical. They entered Gaza the day after the cesefire of the last war and discovered with friends from the Palestinian Human Rights Centre, the extent of the « gaza-strophe » . Dozens of testimonys make us enter into this palestinian nightmare.	Arabic	French
263	The Effect of All Peoples	2010	4:35	Saeed Taji Farouky	full film	https://vimeo.com/23867645		http://www.touristwithatypewriter.com/	Lev Kuleshov, the father of Russian cinema, wanted to define a new art form unrelated to traditional Russian theatre. Editing, he said, was the essence of cinema, the exclusive domain of the filmmaker. He conducted an experiment in which he intercut three identical shots of the actor Ivan Mozzhukhin's face with three entirely different and unrelated scenes. When the audience watched the six clips in sequence, they marvelled at the actor's moving yet subtle depiction of love, hunger and grief. But it was an illusion. The emotions were theirs, not his. It is called The Kuleshov Effect. Kuleshov, can we not also define a Palestinian cinema and photography unrelated to Palestinian music and poetry? Unencumbered by Palestinian history and politics? Can we not simply create fragments and construct an assembly of those fragments? An interpretation through immediacy and proximity, rather than context? Or will someone still say "everything is political in Palestine"? We see a boy. We read a name. We view a landscape. We see a man. We see two children. A valley. A kite. A bicycle. A wall. The emotions are yours, not theirs. Not mine.	English, Arabic
264	Budrus	2010	1:21:40	Julia Bacha	full film	https://justvision.org/budrus		https://justvision.org/boycott/host-a-screening	Budrus is an award-winning feature documentary film about Palestinian community organizer, Ayed Morrar, who unites Palestinian political factions and invites Israeli supporters to join an unarmed movement to save his village of Budrus from destruction by Israel’s Separation Barrier. Success eludes them until his 15-year-old daughter, Iltezam, launches a women’s contingent that quickly moves to the front lines. Struggling side by side, father and daughter unleash an inspiring, yet little-known, movement in the Occupied Palestinian Territories that is still gaining ground today. In an action-filled documentary chronicling this movement from its infancy, Budrus shines a light on people who choose nonviolent strategies to confront a threat. The movie is directed by award-winning filmmaker Julia Bacha (co-writer and editor of Control Room and co-director Encounter Point), and produced by Bacha, Palestinian journalist Rula Salameh, and filmmaker and human rights advocate Ronit Avni (formerly of WITNESS, Director of Encounter Point). Read more information about the crew and cast. While this film is about one Palestinian village, it tells a much bigger story about what is possible in the Middle East. Ayed succeeded in doing what many people believe to be impossible: he united feuding Palestinian political groups, including Fatah and Hamas; he brought women to the heart of the struggle by encouraging his daughter Iltezam's leadership; and welcoming hundreds of Israelis to cross into Palestinian territory for the first time and join this nonviolent effort. Many of the activists who joined the villagers of Budrus are now continuing to support nonviolence efforts in villages from Bil’in to Nabi Saleh to Hebron to Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem. While many documentaries about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict either romanticize the notion of peace, or dwell entirely on the suffering of victims to the conflict, this film focuses on the success of a Palestinian-led unarmed struggle.	English, Arabic	English
265	Turkish Delight	2010	2:46	Basma Alsharif	full film	https://vimeo.com/21585255		https://www.vdb.org/titles/turkish-delight	Super 8mm film transferred to digital video. Installation composed of footage from three separate sequences that interweave frame by frame. Shot in the interiors of empty homes in Amman, Jordan. Sound composed of recording of food ingredients for unspecified dishes looped repetitively over ambient noise from film transfer to digital video.	Arabic	English
266	The Keeper	2010 - 2014	5:45	Shuruq Harb	full film	https://vimeo.com/83370382			The Keeper is an installation of 2000 images which the artist inherited from a street vendor in Ramallah in 2010. The images are remnants of a vast archive assembled by Mustafa, who collected photographs online to be printed for sale on the streets of Ramallah.	Arabic	English
267	On Air	2011	6:22	Ghada Terawi	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SglreOW-_HY			What could it be like if suddenly the Palestinian-Israeli conflict ends? What if we get a democratic, barriers free state, where all are equal regardless of their ethnic, Religious and political believes, simply a country (Palestine - Israel) of its inhabitants. In this film we see events in a past that did not happen yet.	Arabic	English
268	Fire on the Marmara	2011	1:09:27	David Segarra	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHgko6QMkK0		videohorta@yahoo.es	Documentary about the Flotilla to Gaza that was attacked by the israeli commandos in 2010	Arabic, Spanish, English	English
269	Journey 110	2011	12:16	Khaled Jarrar	full film	https://vimeo.com/28051296			The Journey of light is often described as an element of a near-death experience. People describe the experience as floating upwards peacefully through a long journey of the intense darkness of the tunnel and its very narrow entrance. One can barely squeeze through it. At the end of this journey is a beautiful demulcent light to be found. It remains to be determined whether this phenomenon is universal or not, and whether it is purely subjective or purely objective or the result of a physiological phenomenon. The journey of light is a well known leitmotif in film and television. As a plot device it is most commonly described as a passageway to heaven or "the other side" for dead or ghostly characters, while living characters urging ghostly characters to "cross over" or "go towards the light". Usually it is the passage through this 110 meters that distinguishes the ghosts from the angels.	Arabic	English
270	Denied Entry	2011	1:04:27	Kate Jangra	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unmnAI-J4qI		katejangra@gmail.com	Families split apart, a bureaucratic nightmare and a partition that dwarfs the Berlin wall...The human cost of the Israeli occupation. Thousands of Palestinians who hold a foreign passport and have a legal right to return to their homeland are being denied entry by Israel. As an occupying force, Israel has the duty to allow the population to move freely but its control of the checkpoints remains absolute and unchallenged. This film highlights the plight of Palestinian families torn apart by this arbitrary policy.	English
271	Donor Opium	2011	24:26	George Azar and Mariam Shahin	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVTYyRLMljc			For twenty years now the international donor community has financially supported Palestinian institution-building, infrastructure development, the economy, public employees' salaries, health and education, social welfare, the police, electricity production, private credit guarantees, and the bigger part of the civil society organizations with regards to democracy promotion, human rights, tolerance, women rights etc. Peace and the establishment of a Palestinian state have been the declared goals of all the support. But actual results are the fragmentation and pacification of the Palestinian people. This documentary film, directed by Mariam Shahin and George Azar, and funded by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, features Palestinian criticism of this externally funded "development".	Arabic	English
272	The Story of Milk and Honey	2011	9:45	Basma Alsharif	full film	https://loop-barcelona.com/ca/videocloop/video/the-story-of-milk-and-honey/		https://www.vdb.org/titles/story-milk-and-honey	The Story of Milk and Honey is a short experimental video belonging to a larger project, which includes photographs, drawings and text. An unnamed man narrates the story of his attempt to write a love story in Lebanon. Through voice over narration that weaves together images, letters, and songs, a tale of defeat transpires into a multi-layered journey exploring how we collect information, perceive facts and recreate history. The video represents the material consequence of the failed love story, questioning where the main character is to be found in the midst of his own narrative. This work was produced with the Fundación Botín visual arts grant.	Arabic	English
273	Palestina Amore	2011	47:31	Sherif Fathy	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXDngNEqdnA			On May 31, 2010, an Israeli military raid on an aid flotilla sailing to the blockaded Gaza Strip resulted in the deaths of nine unarmed peace activists, prompting international condemnation over what was perceived as a brutal and unjustified use of force. Five of those on board of one of the ships were Italian nationals who were part of the humanitarian mission attempting to break the blockade by delivering goods and construction materials to the occupied Palestinian territory. Israeli sanctions on Gaza since 2001 have led to widespread poverty and rampant unemployment there. But the deadly attack on the flotilla has only served to further motivate Italian supporters of the Palestinian cause. The Palestine Forum, a network of Italian committees and associations, is pushing for greater political support for the Palestinians, while the Rome Palestinian Solidarity Network is continuing to organise a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israeli products. Mila Pernice, a journalist and presenter with Citta Aperta, a radio channel in Rome, and a member of the Palestine Forum, says the network is gaining public support. "We offer political support more than just humanitarian or cultural support. In the past few years we've succeeded in getting more people to be part of our activities. The Forum has helped raise awareness and mobilise people," she explains. "Why do we support the Palestinian cause? Because it's an obvious injustice happening before the entire world. And because we are against imperialists and colonialists. If I speak of Zionism as a colonialist ideology supported by imperialist countries, then the struggle against Zionism is not only a Palestinian struggle. It is mine, yours and ours." Rossana Platone, a retired teacher, witnessed the events that led to the birth of Israel and, along with her left-leaning family, initially supported the Israeli government. But her stance changed during the 1967 war. "The occupation of Palestinian land and the successive colonisation of this land were the reasons why I changed my point of view," she explains. She is now part of a group called Stop Agrexco in Rome which encourages a boycott of Israeli agricultural products, particularly those from the Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. Agrexco is the company that exports most of Israel's food products to Italy. She says the pro-Palestinian movement has received a "positive response from many people," but that she is also aware of the limits of their actions: "We don't think we can change the world by distributing leaflets. But small things can make a difference. We are not in the government. We don't have the power to change things. Each helps in their own way. But we are realistic about what we can achieve."	Italian	English
274	Staying Human	2011	47:23	Al Jazeera	full film	https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xszmsm		Al Jazeera	The movie of the full reading of the 19 chapters of the book Gaza - Stay Human written by Vittorio Arrigoni, his diary and the only daily testimony.	Italian	English
275	Lost Cities of Palestine	2011	47:03	Ramez Qazmouz	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT22bwJ55Sw		Al Jazeera	Rarely seen archival footage accompanies memories and accounts of forgotten Palestinian cities - highlighting the catastrophic effect the creation of Israel in 1948 had on them. Haifa, Nazareth, and Jaffa have all been overshadowed by Tel Aviv, but in their day each of the Palestinian cities had magnificent commercial and cultural ability. "Palestinians born after 1948 don't realise what they have missed," says writer Raef Zreik. "We only realise what we've lost when we hear people's stories about Palestine before 1948. People who spent the night at to clubs and movies in Haifa, who spent the night there and the next day took taxis from Al-Hanateer Square to go back home at the American University in Beirut. You could do what you liked. We not only lost our cities in 1948, but also our open relationship with the Arab world."	Arabic	English
276	Five Broken Cameras	2011	90:00	Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7RxpwH_its			An extraordinary work of both cinematic and political activism, 5 Broken Cameras is a deeply personal, first-hand account of non-violent resistance in Bil'in, a West Bank village threatened by encroaching Israeli settlements. Shot almost entirely by Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat, who bought his first camera in 2005 to record the birth of his youngest son, the footage was later turned into a galvanizing cinematic experience by co-directors Guy Davidi and Burnat. Structured around the violent destruction of a succession of Burnat's video cameras, the filmmakers' collaboration follows one family's evolution over five years of village turmoil. Burnat watches from behind the lens as olive trees are bulldozed, protests intensify, and lives are lost. "I feel like the camera protects me," he says, "but it's an illusion."	Arabic	English
277	The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 Years without Images	2011	1:00:06	Eric Baudelaire	excerpt	https://vimeo.com/27721346		https://baudelaire.net/The-Anabasis-of	Conceptualized while researching the Japanese Red Army during a residency in Japan, the French artist Eric Baudelaire’s first feature-length film is a probing and often mesmerizing weave of Super-8 footage, television clips, film excerpts, and archival miscellany. In voiceover, May Shigenobu (daughter of former Red Army Faction member and Japanese Red Army founder Fusako) and militant filmmaker Masao Adachi delve into their respective histories, including the “27 years without images” during which Adachi spent fighting alongside the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Lebanon. Their narrations unfold over imagery that both applies and extends what Adachi called his “theory of landscape”—the illustration of oppressive social structures through the meticulous filming of landscapes in which they are obliquely inscribed.	English	English	film must downloaded to view
278	Roadmap To Apartheid	2012	1:34:00	Eron Davidson and Ana Nogueira	full film (accessible with subscription)	https://www.amazon.com/Roadmap-Apartheid-Alice-Walker/dp/B079W23BL7/ref=sr_1_2?s=instant-video&ie=UTF8&qid=1519387786&sr=1-2&keywords=roadmap+to+apartheid		https://www.taysirbatniji.com/	With a comparison between apartheid South Africa and the Israel/Palestine conflict, this doc traces the future of one conflict from the past of another. Weaving the history of apartheid into the complex issues facing Israelis and Palestinians, it highlights the frighteningly similar laws and tools used by Israel and apartheid-era South Africa. It s a dark picture of the present but offers hope based on the peace that South Africa eventually found.	English, Arabic	English
279	The Cup Reader	2012	12:00:00	Suha Araj	full film	https://vimeo.com/64310158			Warde, shamed as a young girl yet renowned in Palestine for her mystical seeing and matchmaking lives with her sister Jaleleh and reads the fortunes of her clients. Each woman has made or will make a choice between love and marriage, not having had the luxury of both.	Arabic	English
280	Ma mère, David et moi	2012	16:25:00	Taysir Batniji	full film	https://vimeo.com/51760120			The narrative thread in Taysir Batniji’s video is a telephone conversation between the artist located in France and his mother located in Gaza. Starting from this intimate, fluctuant, fragmented, difficult and sometimes indistinct exchange, the artist questions the resonance of words like displacement, in-between and exile. Through a triple point of view, Ma mère, David et moi explores how to look at one’s home from elsewhere and how to establish connexions by combining narration, souvenirs, impressions, the personal story and information documents.	Arabic	English
281	Deir Yassin Village and Massacre	2012	1:14:37	Sahera Dirbas	full film (accessible with subscription)	https://www.istikana.com/en/episodes/deir-yassin-village-1			On 9 April 1948, the Irgun and other Jewish militias entered the peaceful village of Deir Yassin, 5 km west of Jerusalem. 250 men, women and children are massacred, the survivors are driven out. The news of the massacre spreads, sowing the seeds of terror and precipitating the exodus. 70 years later, five Palestinian men and women, survivors of the massacre, are still alive and remember.	Arabic	English
282	Ismail	2012	28:00	Nora Alsharif	full film (accessible with subscription)	https://www.istikana.com/en/episodes/ismail-1			One day, after selling cakes at the train station in order to support their family in a refugee camp, Ismail and his young brother heedlessly enter a minefield. The film is inspired by a day in the life of Palestinian painter Ismail Shammout (1930-2006)	Arabic	English
283	Beyond The Walls	2012	0:48:00	Ahmed Adnan al-Ramahi	full film	https://www.aljazeera.com/program/al-jazeera-world/2012/8/1/beyond-the-walls			“Nothing is harsher than imprisonment. It’s the cruelest form of torture.” A former Palestinian prisoner This film tells the story of Arab and Palestinian captives who were detained in Israeli jails and how they had to adapt to a new life after their release. Upon release, the prisoners faced a number of difficulties adjusting to a new life of freedom, albeit within an occupied territory. They explain their mixed feelings about the changes in society and the political landscape experienced upon being released from the day-to-day monotony of prison life. Beyond the Walls contains beautifully-filmed interviews and novel graphics to provide a moving portrait of the interviewees and the emotions and feelings they are describing.	Arabic	English
284	Nation Estate	2012	9:02	Larissa Sansour	excerpt	https://vimeo.com/57460693		info@mecfilm.de	Nation Estate is a 2013 Palestinian movie directed by Larissa Sansour. It is a sci-fi short film that depicts Palestine as a skyscraper, with each floor representing a city in Palestine.	Arabic	English
285	Infiltrators	2012	1:10:00	Khaled Jarrar	full film (accessible with subscription)	https://www.istikana.com/en/episodes/infiltrators-1			The checkpoint is closed: “Detour, detour!” a taxi driver shouts, announcing the beginning of yet another uncertain search for a way around the barriers curtailing Palestinian movement in the West Bank. Infiltrators is a visceral “road movie” that chronicles the daily travails of Palestinians of all backgrounds as they seek routes through, under, round, and over a bewildering matrix of barriers. Directed by: Khaled Jarrar	Arabic	English
286	My Neighborhood	2012	25:51	Julia Bacha	full film	https://justvision.org/myneighbourhood/watch			Mohammed El Kurd is a Palestinian boy growing up in the neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah in the heart of East Jerusalem. When Mohammed turns 11, his family is forced to give up part of their home to Israeli settlers, who are leading a campaign of court-sanctioned evictions to guarantee Jewish control of the area. Shortly after their displacement, Mohammed’s family and other residents begin holding unarmed protests against the evictions, determined not to lose their homes for good. In a surprising turn, they are quickly joined by scores of Israeli supporters who are horrified to see what is being done in their name. Among them is Jewish West Jerusalem resident Zvi Benninga and his sister Sara, who develop a strong relationship with Mohammed and his family as they take on a leading role in organizing the protests. Through their personal stories, My Neighbourhood goes beyond the sensational headlines that normally dominate discussions of Jerusalem and captures voices rarely heard, of those striving for a future of equality and pluralism in the city. My Neighbourhood follows Mohammed as he comes of age in the midst of unrelenting tension and remarkable cooperation in his backyard. Highlighting Mohammed’s own reactions to the highly volatile situation, reflections from family members and other evicted residents, accounts of Israeli protesters and interviews with Israeli settlers, the film chronicles the resolve of a neighbourhood and the support it receives from the most unexpected of places. My Neighbourhood is directed and produced by Rebekah Wingert-Jabi, who documented Mohammed’s story over two years, and acclaimed filmmaker Julia Bacha. It is the latest production by Just Vision, an award-winning team of Palestinian, Israeli, North and South American filmmakers, journalists and human rights advocates dedicated to telling the stories of Israelis and Palestinians working nonviolently to achieve freedom, dignity, equality and human security in the region.	English, Arabic	English
287	Gaza Calling	2012	1:03:47	Nahed Awwad	excerpt	https://vimeo.com/64417046			Families living in the West Bank and Gaza are not allowed to meet in person, they can only speak on the phone and by video chat.	Arabic	English
288	The Eid GIft	2012	19:17	Ameen Nayfeh	full film	https://vimeo.com/58453027			During Ramadan 2012 and the following days of Eid Al Fitr, Israel issued around 400,000 permissions for Palestinians from the West Bank to visit the lost homeland. since the start of the second Intifada and the construction of the separation wall, it was for many the first chance to go "inside". told from a director's point of view, the film explores what the gift did to the people.	Arabic	English
289	A World Not Ours	2012	1:32:32	Mahdi Fleifel	full film (accessible with vod rental)	https://vimeo.com/ondemand/aworldnotoursmovie/212074838		info@nakbafilmworks.com	Three generations of a family live in exile in a refugee camp in southern Lebanon, trying their best to survive.	English, Arabic	English
290	Película urgente por Palestina	2012	14:11	Alberte Pagán	full film	https://vimeo.com/41006238		berto@albertepagan.eu	This film is "the opposite of a combat description. It's a combat." This is how the author speaks, in an explicit reference to Marker's film, of this urgent film for Palestine. Alberte Pagán presented a short and urgent film denouncing the situation of the Palestinian people. A film that recovers the maximum actuality of these days, the population of Gaza submitted to the attacks of the Israeli army, which caused more than a few deaths. The images of Urgent Film for Palestine were shot in 2011 in the occupied territories and tell the story of Dionísio Pereira in his Galician version. As its author, referring to Chris Marker, says, this film is "the opposite of a description of a combat, it's a fight” (translated from https://praza.gal/) Shocked by what he observed during his visit to the Palestinian territories, he considered it urgent to make this testimony known. Moved by the dramatic and, at the same time, heroic situation in which its population lives, he made this film in homage to an occupied Palestine and an occupied people. He did it for the right to life under occupation, for the occupied territory, for the freedom under occupation, for the millennial history of the land of the olive trees where Jesus was born under occupation, for the right to pray under occupation, for a future vainly occupied. This is a film about the indignation, the pain, the despair, the epic rebellion towards a lawless occupation. It is the testimony that shows a desperation contained in line with the courage of a people who resist mortgaging their future. The story of these events, which are added to many others that over decades reflect the situation of a country that resists with admirable heroism the vicissitudes to which history has so unjustly subjected them, motivates the Chilean Palestinian institutions to support this noble cause, to which the Bethlehem 2000 Palestinian Foundation is committed since its inception for the education and health of their children.	Arabic	English	to activate subtitles go to captions option on video tool bar in vimeo
291	Road to Tantura	2012	20:22	Hala Gabriel	full film	https://vimeo.com/34769420			Tantura was a beautiful Palestinian fishing village 15 miles south of Haifa. In the early hours of May 23, 1948 it was attacked and occupied by the Haganah. Over 200 villagers, mostly unarmed young men, were massacred; others were taken prisoner and put to forced labor. The site of the village is now a beach resort. The mass grave in which the victims of the massacre are buried is covered by a parking lot.	Arabic	English
292	Gaza 36 mm	2012	40:00	Khalil Al-Mozian	excerpt	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsCkl62wekc		klm97@windowslive.com	The Gaza strip claimed some 12 cinemas since 1944 but by 1987, with the Israeli occupation and armed conflicts, they were all destroyed. In 1994, a new cinema was inaugurated, but it was burned down that same year. The film reflects on the social life of cinema, giving voice to the generation that remembers the joy of watching films in theaters and the younger generation that has been deprived of it.	Arabic	English
293	Maqloubeh	2012	10:46	Nicolas Damuni	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikHSCz8ChV4				Arabic	English
294	White Phosphorus	2012	6:25	Forensic Architecture	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR7kgF3yzCU		https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/white-phosphorus-in-urban-environments	In March 2011, as part of a concerted civil society action, the Israeli human rights group Yesh Gvul, represented by attorneys Michael Sfard and Emily Schaeffer, submitted a petition to Israel’s High Court of Justice demanding the complete ban of the use of white phosphorus munitions in populated areas by the Israeli military. It was in this context that the office of Michael Sfard asked Forensic Architecture to investigate the behaviour and effects of such weapons. The outcome of our investigation was a report titled “The Use of White Phosphorus Munitions in Urban Environments: An Effects-Based Analysis.” The report was first presented in the UN Office at Geneva, during the Annual Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Conventional Weapons (November 12–16, 2012). It was later submitted to Israel’s High Court of Justice, within the framework of Yesh Gvul’s petition. With the material in the petition generating a strong adverse public opinion, the Israeli military—prior to the final hearing of the case in the High Court—declared on April 25, 2013 that it would stop using white phosphorus munitions in populated areas.
295	Farther Than The Eye Can See	2012	12:56	Basma Alsharif	excerpt	https://vimeo.com/49228383		https://www.vdb.org/titles/farther-eye-can-see	A woman recounts her story of the mass exodus of Palestinians from Jerusalem. Beginning with the arrival and ending with the departure, the tale moves backwards in time and through various landscapes. The events are neither undone nor is the story untold; instead, Farther than the eye can see traces a decaying experience to a place that no longer exists.	Arabic	English
296	Ismail	2013	28:00	Nora Alsharif	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lePx19UzHb4			Inspired by a day in the life of Palestinian painter Ismail Shammout, Ismail tells the compelling story of a young man struggling to support his parents after their expulsion to a Refugee camp in 1948 by the Israeli forces. Despite the wretched life and distressing conditions he holds to his dream to go to Rome to learn painting. One day and after selling cakes at the train station with his little brother, they heedlessly enter a minefield. As Ismail faces death, and in his struggle to save himself and his brother, we discover his true spirit.	Arabic	English
297	Home Movies Gaza	2013	24:10	Basma Alsharif	excerpt	https://vimeo.com/203201601		https://www.vdb.org/titles/home-movies-gaza	Home Movies Gaza introduces us to the Gaza Strip as a mircrocosm for the failure of civilization. In an attempt to describe the everyday of a place that struggles for the most basic of human rights, this video claims a perspective from within the domestic spaces of a territory that is complicated, derelict, and altogether impossible to separate from its political identity.	Arabic	English
298	Xenos	2013	12:06	Mahdi Fleifel	full film (accessible with subscription)	https://www.istikana.com/en/episodes/xenos-1		info@nakbafilmworks.com	In 2010, Abu Eyad and other young Palestinian men from the Ain el-Helweh refugee camp in Lebanon traveled with smugglers through Syria and Turkey into Greece. Like so many other migrants, they came looking for a way into Europe but found themselves trapped in a country undergoing economic, political, and social collapse.	English, Arabic	English
299	permission to narrate	2013	12:28	Asmaa Masharqa, Haneen Makho, Haneen Taweel, Hasan Safadi, Muhmd Jabr, Sundos Hammad, Tasneem Alqadi, Walla Der Hamdeh	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Xb3O5qOLNv8			students film by the the students of Birzeit University, the right to education campaign. mentor: Mohammad Alatar	Arabic	English
300	Flying Paper	2013	52:00	Nitin Sawhney and Roger Hill	full film	https://vimeo.com/95679262			Flying Paper is the uplifting story of Palestinian children in Gaza on a quest to shatter the Guinness World Record for the most kites ever flown. It showcases the creative resilience of these children making and flying kites despite the odds. The film has been co-produced with young Palestinians in Gaza trained by the filmmakers through a youth media program called Voices Beyond Walls.	Arabic, English	English
301	With Premeditation	2013	5:00	Arab and Tarzan Nasser	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9FgxYvxUao			Made in Palestine project during the Med Film Factory at the The Royal Film Commission Jordan - RFC in 2013.	Arabic	English
302	Condom Lead	2013	10:00	Arab Nasser	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNkn552kEYA			In the heart of war, do we make love? No, this quest for tenderness, this fundamental communication, the sexual instinct is suddenly cut off. The marriage bed becomes a kind of no man's land. Any attempt to make love is a vain act of resistance to the fear over when the next bomb will hit.	n/a	n/a
303	The Goodness Regime	2013	21:00	Jumana Manna	full film	https://vimeo.com/72584507		http://www.jumanamanna.com/	The Goodness Regime (21 mins, 2013) is an experimental documentary written and directed collaboratively by the artists Jumana Manna and Sille Storihle. With the help of a cast of children, the film investigates the foundations of the ideology and self-image of modern Norway – from the Crusades, via the adventures of Fridtjof Nansen and the trauma of wartime occupation, to the diplomatic theatre of the Oslo Peace Accords. The Goodness Regime was shot in Norway and Palestine, and combines the children's performances with archive sound recordings including US President Bill Clinton speaking at the signing of the Oslo Accords, and Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik's New Year address to the Norwegian people in 2000. The film attempts to capture the apparatus that perpetuate the image of Norway as a peacemaking nation and absolve the nation from the power structures it upholds. The Goodness Regime premiered at Kunsthall Oslo exactly twenty years after the conclusion and signing of the Oslo Agreement by Israel and the PLO in August and September 1993, and has since then been shown in a number of exhibitions and festivals around the world.	English, Norwegian	English
304	Palestine Stereo	2013	1:28:12	Rashid Masharawi	excerpt	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQOM2apIRkE			Two brothers from the West Bank are left homeless by an Israeli air strike and do odd jobs to raise money to emigrate to Canada.	Arabic	English
305	A Sketch of Manners (Alfred Roch’s Last Masquerade)	2013	11:59	Jumana Manna	full film	https://vimeo.com/65088960		http://www.jumanamanna.com/	Inspired by an archival photograph, A Sketch of Manners (Alfred Roch's Last Masquerade) recreates an unconventional bon vivant aspect of Palestinian urban life before 1948. Posing silently for a group photo, the unmasked and melancholic pierrots accidentally personify the premonition of an uncertain future.	English
306	My Love Awaits Me By The Sea	2013	1:19:13	Mais Darwazah	excerpt	https://vimeo.com/23288431		Mais Darwazah maisd66@yahoo.co.uk	A woman takes a journey for the first time back to her home of Palestine. Her imaginary lover, Hasan, accompanies her and she searches for his fantasy world. She ends up finding the remnants of hope in a land that's been exhausted by an endless year.	Arabic	English
307	Omar	2013	1:38:25	Hany Abu-Assad	excerpt	https://vimeo.com/91462978		distribution@mad-solutions.com	Arrested after the death of an Israeli soldier, a Palestinian baker (Adam Bakri) agrees to work as an informant, but his true motives and alliances remain hidden.	Arabic	English
308	20 Handshakes for Peace (Suspended Time)	2013	4:49	Mahdi Fleifel	full film	https://vimeo.com/109154728		info@nakbafilmworks.com	“I remember the handshake very clearly. My dad recorded the ceremony on video and would play it over and over again. He could not believe what had happened. In fact, none of us could. One time he threw his shoe at the TV and shouted so loud, the next door neighbours complained about him.” Listening to the last interview with Edward Said while watching the ceremony made me realize that father’s anger was because chairman Arafat was the first one to reach out his hand.	English	Arabic
309	It’s Better to Jump	2013	1:13:06	Gina Angelone, Mouna Stewart and Patrick Alexander Stewart	full film	https://youtu.be/MTbGlfav9iY			There is a centuries-old seawall in the ancient port of Akka, located on Israel's northern coast. Today, Akka is a modern city inhabited by Muslims, Christians, Jews, and Baha'i, but its history goes all the way back to rule of the Egyptian Pharaohs. Young people dare to stand atop the 40' one-meter thick block structure and risk their fate by jumping into the roiling sea. This perilous tradition has continued for many generations, and has become a rite of passage for the children of Akka. "It's Better to Jump" is about the ancient walled city of Akka as it undergoes harsh economic pressures and vast social change. The film focuses on the aspirations and concerns of the Palestinian inhabitants who call the Old City home.	English, Arabic	English
310	BUS Stop	2013	4:15	Khaled Jarrar	full film	https://vimeo.com/85620451				Arabic	English
311	The Stones Cry Out	2013	55:38	Yasmine Perni	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwRaWhX_rd4		https://www.journeyman.tv/film/8576	In 1948 the history of Palestine changed forever, but little is ever said about the upheaval faced by its Christian minority. Christians have lived side by side with Muslims and Jews for almost two thousand years. An integral part of Palestinian society, they have shared in the events of recent history, yet their voices are seldom heard and worse: their existence often ignored.	English, Arabic
312	Deep Sleep	2014	12:44	Basma Alsharif	full film	https://vimeo.com/101257097		https://www.vdb.org/titles/deep-sleep	A hypnosis-inducing pan-geographic shuttle built on brainwave generating binaural beats, Deep Sleep takes us on a journey through the sound waves of Gaza to travel between different sights of modern ruin. From the ruins of an ancient civilization embedded in a modern civilization in ruins (Athens), to the derelict buildings of anonymous sites (Malta) and a site that is post-civilization (the Gaza Strip). Shot while under self-hypnosis, the performance-film asks us to move from the corporeal self to the cinema space in a collective act of bilocation that transcends the limits of geographical borders, time and space.	n/a	n/a
313	O Persecuted	2014	11:37	Basma Alsharif	excerpt	https://vimeo.com/106212328		https://www.vdb.org/titles/o-persecuted	O, Persecuted turns the act of restoring Kassem Hawal’s 1974 Palestinian Militant film Our Small Houses into a performance possible only through film. One that involves speed, bodies, and the movement of the past into a future that collides ideology with escapism.	Arabic	English
314	Girls Only	2014	2:28	Basma Alsharif	excerpt	https://vimeo.com/90107316			Girls Only plays out as a rhyming game set in the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens. Set to the mechanics of lights, camera, and action that compound the relationship between the subject on screen and the one behind the camera leaving us to wonder if there is no rhyme or reason for why something happens, then maybe is there no obvious explanation for it. 16mm film installation with still images excerpt from 2:28 loop - full video preview available by request
315	The Olive Press	2014	2:18	Ameen Nayfeh	full film	https://vimeo.com/107878848			The Nayfeh's Harvest in 2012.	n/a	n/a
316	The Freedom Machine	2014	8:25	Odeh Films	full film	https://vimeo.com/104305974
317	Observational Desire on a Memory That Remains	2014	15:11	Noor Abuarafeh	full film	https://vimeo.com/116973160			The work is an attempt to create an imaginary archive of a group exhibition that took place in Jerusalem, ‬1985‭ ‬at Al-Hakawati theater hall‭. ‬since there is no archive in Palestine‭, ‬the work is based on immaterial references to construct its narrative‭, ‬such‭ ‬as oral history and storytelling‭, ‬interviewing people who were part of this event or who knew any information related to it‭.‬ The one channel video investigates the photograph as well as the artists that appear in it, and through the biography of one of‭ ‬these artists, ‬a narrative of the Palestinian art of that period is constructed. ‬The video questions the possibility of representing an event when the archive is immaterial‭, ‬and how collective memory becomes the storage of this imagined archive‭.‬
318	The Tomb of the Unknown Martyr	2014	10:37	Firas Shehadeh	full film	https://vimeo.com/94198333		firasshehadeh.com	The Tomb of the Unknown Martyr One channel video/Sound installation. 2014 In 21st of October 1970, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) built a monument on top of a mass grave in Jabal Al-Ashrafiyeh. The monument was to commemorate the martyrs who were slaughtered in the massacres known as Black September, during the jordanian civil war in 1970. In 31st of May 1971, the monument was demolished by the jordanian military forces, at the same time most of the documents about the massacres were destroyed with the intention of eliminating the collective memory of the civil war and the palestinian political presence in Jordan. The project consists of an exact replica of the original memorial installed in April 2014 in the plaza of Jabal Al-Ashrafiyeh.	n/a	n/a
319	Protective Edge	2014	2:24	Firas Shehadeh	full film	https://vimeo.com/105160550		firasshehadeh.com	Protective Edge One channel video/Sound installation. 2014 On 8 July 2014, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) launched the military operation "Protective Edge" in Gaza Strip. After seven weeks of Israeli air strikes, 2,143 people killed and 11,100 wounded, most of them civilians. This video propose to read two kinds of image frames from the Israeli air strikes during "Protective Edge" operation, making an analyse on how the Israeli hi-technology military machine creates an abstract image of the life of Palestinians.	n/a	n/a
320	Notes for a Return	2014	14:56	Mary Jirmanus Saba	full film	https://vimeo.com/77014813/9ecc802aef		mary.jirmanus@gmail.com	A Palestinian couple reconsiders their past.	n/a	n/a
321	The architecture of violence	2014	25:00	Ana Naomi de Sousa	full film	https://www.aljazeera.com/program/rebel-architecture/2014/9/2/israel-the-architecture-of-violence			On a journey across the settlements and roads of the West Bank and along the Separation Wall, Israeli architect Eyal Weizman demonstrates how architecture is central to the Israeli occupation of Palestine.	English, Arabic, Hebrew	English
322	I Remember Abu Ammar	2014	10:18	Monica Maurer	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVO7w8vjBY4			Film made on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of Yasser Arafat's death and screened as part of the third edition of Cineforum Palestine.	Arabic, English, German	Italian
323	White Oil	2014	1:04:14	Judy Price	full film	https://cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/play/54968/White-Oil			There are over 350 quarries in the Occupied Palestinian Territories of the West Bank. The stone excavated has been termed the 'white oil' of Palestine and is the only raw material available to support the Palestinian economy and provides a livelihood for over 20,000 workers. However, of the stone and sand excavated from the quarries 65% is expropriated by Israel for the construction of Israel, and to build the illegal settlements in the West Bank, with Israel also exporting the stone internationally and claiming it as their own product. Today almost every hillside is scarred by the brutal incision of the quarries. Walking through the landscape of the West Bank this mutilation becomes disconcertedly visible to the naked eye. The land is pillaged and defaced, its wound left open to reveal a 'geology of disaster'. White Oil engages with the interstices of a number of genres; photography, documentary, the cinematic, fiction and testimony, with ethnographic methodologies playing an important role to address the way the quarries in the West Bank are not just industrial spaces in which labour and excavation of raw material take place, but lived spaces. White Oil unfolds narratives around colonialism, expropriation of land and mobility through the day-to-day lives of the quarry owners, workers and security guards. This includes their personal histories and experiences as well as the changing landscape and conditions of the quarries bringing to bear the myriad losses of land, economy, identity, history and community. Filmed in a number of locations in the West Bank images are highly composed and imbued in the language of the static frame, the durational image and the aesthetics of delay to reveal the military, religious and geopolitical forces that pervade this land. Throughout the film dialogue (with subtitles) are interwoven. Importantly, the participants are engaged actively in the filmmaking process with a collaborative mode of address and with the film considering the role of the artist as filmmaker, activist and ethnographer The film is structured around the interplay between day and night. The day scenes focus on the decimation of the landscape: the machines and non-human elements, settlements and landscape, sounds of industry and cutting of the stone. The night scenes, by contrast, are more narrative and intimate, focusing on the social gathering of the Birzeit Brothers and their friends and their engagement with the quarry space. In these night scenes the quarry becomes a dwelling with moments of resistance. Ramzi a security guard appears intermittently throughout the film and provides a narration and consistency.	Arabic	English
324	High Noon	2014	31:46	Basma Alsharif	full film	https://vimeo.com/112349364		https://imanefares.com/en/artistes/basma-al-sharif/oeuvres/	High Noon is the meeting between the Southern Californian landscape with that of the South-Eastern landscape of Onomichi Japan as an experience of the gravitational pull towards the center of the earth, with the knowledge that we are sometimes standing on the world upside down. We briefly glimpse each landscape as a dizzying series of loops that seem to repeat themselves endlessly.	n/a	n/a
325	Renee's Room	2014	14:50	Basma Alsharif	full film	https://vimeo.com/131198464		https://imanefares.com/en/artistes/basma-al-sharif/oeuvres/	“This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence – even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!” quote from Frederick Nietzsche’s The Gay Science: the Greatest Weight, Book IV (page 273) translation by Walter Kaufmann Basma Alsharif invites you to a room created for a fictive character, Renée. A dark room. A white carpet. One tape player. Two monitors : the first one reflects your presence; the other reflects Renee’s world. All the elements create ephemeral intersections that function as a loop where the room breathes in the absence of its lodger. Alternating between darkness and light, from silence to sound, renewal and repetition are enacted.	English
326	Apartment 10-14	2014	8:30	Tarzan & Arab Nasser	full film	https://vimeo.com/154493876		info@idiomsfilm.com	It’s his birthday. While waiting for her to arrive, he imagines the moment when he first sees her. What will her gift be? As he shifts between a dream and reality he receives a visit by a strange old man.	Arabic
327	Interference	2014	12:18	Amin Nayfeh	full film	https://vimeo.com/154492935		info@idiomsfilm.com	In the midst of the Second Intifada; Malik is kept captive in his room by his family in order to study. To escape this oppression he finds comfort in two simple habits: listening to the radio and secretly observing his beautiful neighbor.	Arabic	English
328	Stronger Than Words	2014	47:30	Mustafah El Nabih	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRP-j1eM2Ck		Al Jazeera	The inspirational story of the daily lives of the deaf community of Gaza. Gaza, before the Israeli attacks of July 2014, had a total population of 1.8 million. Included in that number are 15,000 deaf people across the whole of the Gaza Strip. In this film we meet many strong personalities from this vibrant community, as they live their daily lives and strive to succeed as hearing people do.	English, Arabic, Levantine Arabic Sign Language	English
329	Journey of a Sofa	2014	9:00	Alaa Al Ali	full film	https://vimeo.com/90575853		info@idiomsfilm.com	To transport a newly purchased sofa to your home is an easy task. In a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, this task becomes a Sisyphean journey revealing the complexities and absurdities of everyday life in the Shatila camp in Lebanon.	Arabic	English
330	Shooting in Ramallah	2014	2:24	Khaled Jarrar	full film	https://vimeo.com/96937420			Gently I press the trigger I am a stone. I am non-visible. I only have one bullet. This is a tough game where I have to be in hidden ‘frozen’ position otherwise any wrong move might transform my reality into something else. Gently I press the trigger where the bullet goes out reaching hundreds of meters in less than a second. Pressing it is always something very sensitive and fragile, "It’s like touching something that has never been touched before", Undoubtedly, the bullet will goes fast and hits the target hard creating colour’ shapes, exposing how powerless it can be if we are visible for another. I tried to engender a methodology that allowed me to create art from where I could use some of the deadly skills that I learnt while I was being trained as soldier. Therefore, I comprehend this methodology as a space of metaphors, both for my personal space and displacement; displaying a natural analogy of my accumulated skills and depicts my absorbed discipline. I was trained to shoot, to follow rules, and I was good at it. The main purpose of all this training was to make me an expert in shooting and in camouflage. I was taught to hit the target, quickly and accurately, as to use the surrounding environment to camouflage myself. Some exercises were aimed to oblige me to make my own uniform; I needed to be like a chameleon, imperceptible within the terrain. Thus, I have combined these two acquired skills into making my art, which somehow demonstrates the disconnection between structuralism and essence, and why both can be meaningful in military service as well as in approaching the understanding of life.	n/a	n/a
331	The Wanted 18	2014	1:15:00	Paul Cowan and Amer Shomali	full film	https://watch.plex.tv/movie/the-wanted-18			The Wanted 18 is a 2014 Palestinian-Canadian animated documentary about the efforts of Palestinians in Beit Sahour to start a small local dairy industry during the First Intifada, hiding a herd of 18 dairy cows from Israeli security forces when the dairy collective was deemed a threat to Israel's national security.	Arabic	English
332	Roshmia	2015	1:10:00	Salim Abu Jabal	excerpt	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3rQVRgJgzc			An elderly Palestinian couple has a final standoff against Israeli authorities to maintain their natural lifestyle in Roshmia; last natural valley in Haifa.	Arabic	English
333	Trip Along Exodus	2015	1:59:17	Hind Shoufani	full film	https://vimeo.com/283054929		hindoism@gmail.com (hind shoufani)	“Trip Along Exodus” is a film/poem that recreates the last 70 years of Palestinian and Arab politics seen through the prism of the life of the filmmaker’s father, Dr. Elias Shoufani, a leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, an academic and leftist intellectual who was one of the leaders of the opposition to Arafat within Fatah for 20 years. The film language uses archive, poetry, family photos/8mm films, glitter, cartoons, animation, macro-photography, interviews, and other multimedia formats in a video-art amalgam—a personal and political memoir. Born in Mi’liya in the Galilee and educated at the Hebrew University and Princeton, the multilingual and erudite Dr. Shoufani was also the Arab world’s leading analyst of Israeli affairs for more than a generation. To understand why he gave up a tenured position at a US university and joined the underground PLO in Beirut, the filmmaker traced her family’s evolution through Palestine’s 20th century history, from the Nakba in 1948 to current day war-torn Syria, where the family lived for decades, peacefully. The film travels through Washington DC, NYC, the Galilee, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, in search of the borders of family, the weight of a homeland and the price paid for it. "Trip Along Exodus" has screened in over 30 festivals internationally, and won the Audience Award for best film at the Cairo International Women's film festival, the Best Non-European Documentary film at the European Independent Film Festival in Paris, as well as a special mention at the East End Film Festival in London. It has traveled from Japan to refugee camps, from Jerusalem to Vancouver, and the most gratifying part for Hind has been the universal love shown for her father and mother, two powerful Palestinian fighters, relentelessly determined to work for justice and freedom in their homeland.	Arabic	English
334	Pioneer High	2015	9:43	Suha Araj	full film	https://vimeo.com/126208890			In 1969, Hala emigrates from Palestine to Michigan and attends a high school that prohibits girls from wearing pants. With her limited English, Hala, an unsuspecting rebel, repeatedly disobeys the rule. A revolution brews as the teacher loses control of his classroom to the new girl’s influence.
335	In Defense of the Rocket	2015	5:42	Martin Ginestié	full film	https://vimeo.com/135115803		martin.ginestie@gmail.com	The rise and fall of the Middle East peace process in photos, to the rhythms of Beethoven's 7th symphony.
336	The Meadow	2015	9:00	Jela Hasler	full film	https://vimeo.com/122533704			In a dry, barren landscape, a herd of cattel is grazing, accompanied by dogs, looked after by cowboys. Step by step the seemingly peaceful place starts to prove fallacious to the viewer – while the cows end their day as it begun. Filmed in the Golan Heights, 2014	n/a	n/a
337	3000 Nights	2015	1:39:30	Mai Masri	full film (accessible with subscription)	https://www.istikana.com/en/episodes/3000-nights-1		https://www.cinemapolitica.org/distribution/3000-nights/	Palestinian filmmaker Mai Masri’s stunning feature debut is inspired by a true story and shot in a real prison. 3000 NIGHTS traces a young mother’s journey of hope, resilience and survival against all odds. Accused of helping a teenage boy on the run, Layal, a newlywed Palestinian schoolteacher, finds herself incarcerated in a top security prison for Palestinian and Israeli women. After Layal discovers that she is pregnant, the prison director pressures her to get an abortion and spy on the Palestinian inmates. Terrified but defiant, she gives birth to her child in chains. Through her struggle to raise her son behind bars, Layal manages to find a sense of hope and meaning to her life. When prison conditions deteriorate and the Palestinian prisoners decide to strike, the prison director warns her against joining the strike and threatens to take her child away. In a moment of truth, Layal is forced to make a choice that will forever change her life.	Arabic, Hebrew	English
338	A Magical Substance Flows Into Me	2015	1:06:00	Jumana Manna	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8Nyadyq5xk		http://www.jumanamanna.com/	A magical substance flows into me opens with a crackly voice recording of Dr. Robert Lachmann, an enigmatic Jewish-German ethnomusicologist who emigrated to 1930s Palestine. While attempting to establish an archive and department of Oriental Music at the Hebrew University, Lachmann created a radio program for the Palestine Broadcasting Service called “Oriental Music”, where he would invite members of local communities to perform their vernacular music. Over the course of the film Manna follows in Lachmann’s footsteps and visit Kurdish, Moroccan and Yemenite Jews, Samaritans, members of urban and rural Palestinian communities, Bedouins and Coptic Christians, as they exist today within the geographic space of historical Palestine. Manna engages them in conversation around their music, while lingering over that music’s history as well as its current, sometimes endangered state. Intercutting these encounters with musicians, are a series of vignettes of interactions of the artist with her parents in the bounds of their family home. In a metaphorical excavation of an endlessly contested history, the film’s preoccupations include: the complexities embedded in language, as well as desire and the aural set against the notion of impossibility. Within the hackneyed one-dimensional ideas about Palestine/Israel, this impossibility becomes itself a trope that defines the Palestinian landscape. (-Negar Azimi)	Arabic, Hebrew, English	English
339	In the Future, They Ate from the Finest Porcelain	2015	28:30	Larissa Sansour, Søren Lind	full film	https://vimeo.com/groups/331203/videos/203117078		info@mecfilm.de	In the Future They Ate From the Finest Porcelain resides in the cross-section between sci-fi, archaeology and politics. Combining live motion and CGI, the film explores the role of myth for history, fact and national identity. A narrative resistance group makes underground deposits of elaborate porcelain – suggested to belong to an entirely fictional civilization. Their aim is to influence history and support future claims to their vanishing lands.	Arabic	English
340	Farah	2015	1:24:25	Farheen Umar	full film	https://www.aljazeera.com/program/al-jazeera-world/2016/7/27/farah-scarred-by-gazas-war		Al Jazeera	The movie "Farah" tells a human story about a 3-year-old girl who travels from Gaza to California to treat wounds caused by the 2008 war on Gaza, to find there the Palestinian woman, Amal Jubran, who takes care of her in her home as one of her children.	English,Arabic	English
341	Recollection	2015	1:08:18	Kamal Aljafari	excerpt	https://vimeo.com/135388977		https://kamalaljafari.ar	A visual tour around Jaffa through archived footage that subtly depicts every house, road and square. A visual memory of a city that was once known as the "Bride of the Mediterranean."	n/a	n/a
342	Electrical Gaza	2015	17:53	Rosalind Nashashibi	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNYDd0PQ2Bo		bookings@lux.org.uk	In ‘Electrical Gaza’ Rosalind Nashashibi combines her footage of Gaza, and the fixer, drivers and translator who were her constant company, with animated scenes. She presents Gaza as under a spell; isolated, suspended in time, difficult to access and highly charged. She shows us Gaza as she experienced it in the quiet pause before the onslaught of Israeli bombardment in the summer of 2014. Nashashibi travelled to Gaza with producer Kate Parker and cinematographer Emma Dalesman.	Arabic
343	Speed Sisters	2015	80:00	Amber Fares	excerpt	https://watch.eventive.org/arabfilm/play/654d881011ca3f005a76a9c7		https://www.amberfares.com	The Speed Sisters are the first all-woman race car driving team in the Middle East. Grabbing headlines and turning heads at improvised tracks across the West Bank, these five women have sped their way into the heart of the gritty, male-dominated Palestinian street car-racing scene. Weaving together their lives on and off the track, SPEED SISTERS takes you on a surprising journey into the drive to go further and faster than anyone thought you could.	Arabic, English	English
344	Ave Maria	2015	14:37	Basil Khalil	full film	https://vimeo.com/329141673			In this Academy Award–nominated film, a squabbling family of Israeli settlers find themselves in a sticky situation after their car breaks down in a remote area of the West Bank. (Sabbath laws mean they can’t use phones to call for help.) Their only potential saviors? An order of Palestinian nuns—who’ve taken a vow of silence.	Hebrew, Arabic	English
345	Al Wafaa	2015	16:53	Yasser Murtaja	full film	https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ltu8c1t6l7nw7tc1v4crq/Al-Wafaa-HD.mp4?rlkey=pm4cycmvjg32yy1i65srfvp38&dl=0
346	In the Land of Oranges	2015	14:00	Nadir Mauge	full film	https://vimeo.com/200352423		nadir.mauge@gmail.com	Angele Hazboun (94), and her sister Odette (79), live in seclusion after being forced out of their hometown, Jaffa, decades ago. Now older and weary from their circumstances, these women tell their story to remind us of the past and reconnect with the life they once knew.
347	Nun Wa Zaytun	2015	50:03	Emtiaz Diab	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edDLiPuMc40		https://www.nunfilms.com/	While listening to the stories of the people Murad meets with his Mobile Cinema, trekking from one venue to another, Nun wa Zaytun transports us to another Palestine. We encounter a simple rural life, far from the cultural and social stereotypes of modern, urban Ramallah or Tel Aviv, only kilometers away.	Arabic	English
348	The Parrot	2016	18:00	Darin J. Sallam and Amjad Al-Rasheed	excerpt	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZuUR8hcqzU&embeds_referring_euri=http%3A%2F%2Fmad-distribution.film%2F&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY&feature=emb_logo		http://mad-distribution.film/movies/movie111531.php	The Parrot tells the story of a Mizrahi Jewish family, who emigrate from Morocco, trying to settle into their new life in Haifa, Palestine in 1948.	Hebrew, Arabic	English
349	Emwas: Restoring Memories	2016	52:35	Dima Abu Ghoush	full film	https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7z0482			Emwas is a personal film that follows the journey of the director, Dima Abu Ghoush, as she rebuilds her demolished hometown from the memories of its people. The film follows the journey of the director, Dima Abu Ghoush, as she rebuilds her demolished hometown, Emwas, in the form of a maquette (model). Dima was born in Emwas, but she was forced to leave it when she was two years old, along with the town’s inhabitants, on the second day of the 1967 war. All her life she heard stories about Emwas, but she only knew it as a public park, for that’s what the Israeli government turned the village into, some years after it demolished it. In 2009, Dima decided to rebuild Emwas in the form of a model/ maquette, with the help of her family and friends. The film succeeds to bring the demolished village to life through the memories of its people, and raises questions about the future of Emwas and its people who still dream to return to it.	Arabic	English
350	Perpetual Recurrences	2016	57:40	Reem Shilleh					This film programme-which is, rather, a montage-exhibits a collection of scenes that gather around each other to form sequences. They do this dictated by repetitive occurrences, be that location, political discourse, mise-en-scène, objects, and so on. From the flashing image or sound, to the classroom, the militant in an open field delivering a speech with a tree somewhere in sight, young women seated on a floor discussing revolutionary politics, and to travelling shots in the tight alleyways of refugee camps and from inside cars moving through streets and checkpoints, they are plucked out from their heavily politicized filmic contexts, form and content-wise. Then, they are placed in sequences and screened to observe the political panoply of the moving image produced in and about Palestine. The fragments were extracted from a number of films and videos created over the last four decades about Palestine, tracking repetition in works from militant filmmaking during the Palestinian revolutionary period 1968-82, post-Oslo, and more contemporary films and videos. Some of the authors, to name a few, include Nils Vest, Basma Alsharif, Koji Wakamatsu and Masao Adachi, Mahdi Fleifel, and Michel Khleifi.	Arabic, English, Italian, Japanese	English
351	Shujayya	2016	21:00	Mohammed Almughanni	full film	https://vimeo.com/172778035		mohamugha@gmail.com	The title of the work is borrowed from the Titan goddess of memory and the ‘inventress of language and words.’ The starting point for the project is a scar on the forehead of the artist’s grandfather. The scar was a result of a bullet shot in his direction by an Israeli soldier in the late 1940’s. Focusing on the sagas of myth and the construction of memory, members of the same family are filmed individually as they narrate their version of the same event. By scratching the surface of family history, the project explores the scar as a foundational hinge that arranges reality. The project also considers how one can play the role of a historian when the primary source is no longer there. ‘We do not remember. We rewrite memory much as history is rewritten.’ As such, recollection becomes an act of transformation rather than reproduction.	Arabic	English
352	Ambulance	2016	1:18:37	Mohammed Jabaly	full film (accessible with subscription/rental)	https://vimeo.com/ondemand/ambulancethefilm		http://www.ambulancegazafilm.com/	A raw, first-person account of the last war in Gaza in the summer of 2014. Mohamed Jabaly, a young man from Gaza City, joins an ambulance crew as war approaches, looking for his place in a country under siege, where at times there seems to be no foreseeable future. While thousands of things are published on the recurring violence in Gaza, the stories behind them remain hidden. Not this one.	Arabic	English
353	A Man Returned	2016	30:05	Mahdi Fleifel	full film (accessible with subscription)	https://www.istikana.com/en/episodes/a-man-returned-1		info@nakbafilmworks.com	Reda is 26 years old. His dreams of escaping the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain El-Helweh ended in failure after three years trapped in Greece. He returned with a heroin addiction to life in a camp being torn apart by internal strife and the encroachment of war from Syria. Against all odds he decides to marry his childhood sweetheart; a love story, bittersweet as the camp itself.	Arabic, English	English
354	Off Frame Aka Revolution Until Victory	2016	1:02:13	Mohanad Yaqubi	full film (accessible with vod rental)	https://vimeo.com/ondemand/offframeakarevolution		info@idiomsfilm.com	Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory is a meditation on the Palestinian people's struggle to produce an image and self-representation on their own terms in the 1960s and 1970s, with the establishment of the Palestine Film Unit as part of the PLO. Unearthing films stored in archives across the world after an unprecedented research and access, the film begins with popular representations of modern Palestine and traces the works of militant filmmakers in reclaiming image and narrative through revolutionary and militant cinema. In resurrecting a forgotten memory of struggle, Off Frame reanimates what is within the frame, but also weaves a critical reflection by looking for what is outside it, or what is off frame.	Arabic	English
355	Mnemosyne	2016	13:11	Inas Halabi	full film	https://vimeo.com/238585654			The title of the work is borrowed from the Titan goddess of memory and the ‘inventress of language and words.’ The starting point for the project is a scar on the forehead of the artist’s grandfather. The scar was a result of a bullet shot in his direction by an Israeli soldier in the late 1940’s. Focusing on the sagas of myth and the construction of memory, members of the same family are filmed individually as they narrate their version of the same event. By scratching the surface of family history, the project explores the scar as a foundational hinge that arranges reality. The project also considers how one can play the role of a historian when the primary source is no longer there. ‘We do not remember. We rewrite memory much as history is rewritten.’ As such, recollection becomes an act of transformation rather than reproduction	Arabic	English
356	Rubber Coated Steel	2016	21:49	Lawrence Abu Hamdan	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFIvUV5vmMU		http://lawrenceabuhamdan.com/	In 2014, artist and audio investigator Lawrence Abu Hamdan was asked to examine audio files that recorded the shots that killed Nadeem Nawara and Mohamed Abu Daher in the West Bank of Palestine. Rubber Coated Steel is a work that reflects on that process. It does not preside over the voices of the victims but seeks to amplify their silence, questioning the ways in which rights are being heard today. Set in a facility designed with one specific function – to fire ammunition and silence the sound of the bullets fired – Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s Rubber Coated Steel (2016) is a video work which presents the fictitious trial of an actual murder case. The subtitles are a transcript drawn from a case focusing on an incident in May 2014, in which two unarmed teenagers, Nadeem Nawara and Mohamad Abu Daher, were shot and killed by Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank (Palestine). The case never came before a civil court. Instead, it was made public by the human rights organization Defence for Children International. Through Forensic Architecture, a Goldsmiths College-based agency that undertakes advanced architectural and media research, this organization worked with Lawrence Abu Hamdan to publish a report, including detailed audio analysis of the gunshots fired. Which ultimately proved the guilt of the soldiers. The piece acts as a kind of tribunal in absentia for these murders and the film into a new kind of legal scenography and a form of presentation of the evidence. Transforming the visitor, respectively the viewer into a juror. Emotions, dead bodies, loud sounds, ammunition sounds, and even the voice itself are all removed from the video. This is a silence that forces us to listen to sound which would be incomprehensible to most visitors, even if they were to hear it. The result is a levelling of the playing field between what is voiced and committed to language, and what is suppressed or willingly silenced.	English	English
357	They Live in Forests, They Are Extremely Shy	2016	4:00	Saeed Taji Farouky	full film	https://vimeo.com/194444899		http://www.touristwithatypewriter.com/	"They Live in Forests, They Are Extremely Shy" tells the fictionalised story of an Indigenous Australian man invited to London for the Colonial Exhibition of 1886. He's a reluctant ambassador, negotiating for the safety of his people and ancestral land as the British Empire continues to colonise and brutalise indigenous Australians. He plays the 'good native', until a chance encounter forces him to decide whether to live his life with diplomacy or authenticity. It is a short story dense with themes of oppression, dehumanisation, resistance, and the determination of indigenous people to fight for their literal and cultural survival.	English
358	Reflections	2016	17:06	Sarah Zeryab	full film	https://vimeo.com/172955100		sarahzeryab@gmail.com	Throughout the three consecutive years Sarah has lived in Beirut, WhatsApp has been the only means of communication between her and her parents in Damascus. Sarah receives from her father a voice note of him singing her a song by Oum Kulthoum. It is through the voice notes exchanged with her parents that Sarah discovers that the war has reversed their roles: the adults have become children who devour memories of the past. She, meanwhile, asks herself, “What do my parents look like now?"	Arabic	English
359	Defying My Disability	2016	45:40	Ramzi Maqdisi	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfmA9s0LwHg		Al Jazeera	Seven disabled Palestinians negotiate the challenges of life in Gaza and the Occupied West Bank. Around 113,000 people in the Occupied West Bank and Gaza live with disabilities. Over 33 percent of schoolgoers with disabilities drop out of school. In this film, we meet seven Palestinians aged between seven and 28 with different disabilities. Most were born with them; one was injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza. But they all have a positive attitude and a strong desire to overcome their physical weaknesses andrealise their dreams. Disability is not in the body, it’s in the mind. If the mind is healthy, you can do whatever you want. When you learn, nothing is impossible and the biggest proof is that I can ride a bicycle. My dream is to learn and help people like me. I know how they feel. Abed Alrahman Abu Rawah, student We meet Haneen Abu Ayash, 25, who lives in Hebron. Haneen trained as a secretary but couldn't find a job because of a speech impediment she's had since birth. Her mother suffered a lack of oxygen while giving birth to Haneen, which left her daughter with a balance defect. "Is it wrong to feel that I'm like everyone else?" she asks. "It's not wrong to exercise my right or to know that I'm like the rest of the people." Mohamed Sadah, a young man who works for his uncle in a second-hand market, was born with a congenital malformation affecting his lower body. He bemoans the lack of electronic equipment and other facilities for the disabled in the Occupied West Bank. Yet, despite not having the use of his legs, he strives to be independent, using his hands to climb stairs. Idriss Awaad, seven, is determined to learn how to walk and practises every single day along a long wall near his uncle's house. He suffers from the same condition as Haneen. "When I start walking, I'll give [my brother] Issa the stand and this chair to sell," he says. Just before he graduated, Zyad Deeb, 28, an artist and photographer, lost 11 members of his family in Israeli rocket attacks during the Gaza War of 2008-2009. He also lost both his legs. His father and brother are buried in the same grave along with his legs. But these tragedies haven't stopped him from capturing the "beauty of things" in his beloved Gaza. Also from Gaza is Anas Abu Haloub, a young schoolboy who has the same condition as Mohamed and requires a wheelchair. He goes to school and although he can't play sport with other children, he doesn't want people to feel sorry for him and help him. Muna Zayed, a 14-year-old girl with a big smile, is close to her elder brother, Thaer, but says she has no friends because children her age "don't accept playing with me". Muna, who lives in Gaza, has had virtually to drop out of school because it became too difficult for her to use her manual wheelchair and her family couldn't take her to school every day. Nevertheless, she aspires to become a primary school teacher. Abed Alrahman Abu Rawah, 17, who lives in Gaza, was born with a congenital malformation leaving him with one arm and one leg. Despite this, he taught himself how to ride a bike and is determined to get work helping other disabled people. In the face of conflict, occupation, tragedy and disability - in places ill-equipped to handle special needs - we see how these seven people have learned to navigate complex challenges with both optimism and strength. In Defying My Disability we see how they're determined to rise above their disabilities, make the most out of life and draw strength from everyday things around them - their families, the sea and themselves.	Arabic	English
360	The Occupation of the American Mind	2016	1:24:00	Loretta Alper and Jeremy Earp	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP0-YohJR-g			Israel's ongoing military occupation of Palestinian territory and repeated invasions of the Gaza strip have triggered a fierce backlash against Israeli policies virtually everywhere in the world - except the United States. The Occupation of the American Mind takes an eye-opening look at this critical exception, zeroing in on pro-Israel public relations efforts within the U.S. Narrated by Roger Waters and featuring leading observers of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and U.S. media culture, the film explores how the Israeli government, the U.S. government, and the pro-Israel lobby have joined forces, often with very different motives, to shape American media coverage of the conflict in Israel's favor. From the U.S.-based public relations campaigns that emerged in the 1980s to today, the film provides a sweeping analysis of Israel's decades-long battle for the hearts, minds, and tax dollars of the American people in the face of widening international condemnation of its increasingly right-wing policies.	English	English
361	Development Alternatives in a Colonial Time	2016	23:13	May Odeh	full film	https://vimeo.com/155534686			The film “Development Alternatives in a Colonial Time” has emerged out of the twenty years of state building efforts, led by the Palestinian Authority, and the neoliberalism economic policies it has prompted. The film illuminates development alternatives whose primary function is to modify the path of the Palestinian development towards enhancing.the steadfastness of the human and the land	Arabic	English
362	When Things Occur	2016	28:00	Oraib Toukan	excerpt	https://vimeo.com/861173022	Thisoneforthebirds2023	stillsalt@gmail.com	When Things Occur is based on Skype conversations with image creators based in Gaza and behind images that were transmitted from screen to screen in the 2014 war on Gaza. The film probes the face of mourning and grief—its digital embodiment, transmission, and representation. What is viewing suffering ‘at a distance’? What is the behavior and political economy of the image of war? And who is ‘local’ in the representation of war?	Arabic	English
363	The Crossing	2017	11:00	Ameen Nayfeh	excerpt	https://vimeo.com/241298427			When Shady and his siter Maryam get excited planning to visit their sick grandfather on the other side of the wall, their elder brother Mohammed arrives in a hurry with the permit to cross. When they arrive to the checkpoint they realize that having a permit is sometimes not enough to let them pass.
364	Home Away from Home \| Najia & Ahmed	2017	18:49	Taysir Batniji	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgXHPU-2yjk		https://www.taysirbatniji.com/		Arabic	English
365	Home Away from Home \| Black-Arab	2017	6:08	Taysir Batniji	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIa7lfRZ0sc		https://www.taysirbatniji.com/
366	Home Away from Home \| Ash-Shams	2017	2:22	Taysir Batniji	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmUuZIOzXwc		https://www.taysirbatniji.com/
367	Home Away from Home \| Al-Fajr	2017	3:40	Taysir Batniji	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P14sDsUE7d8		https://www.taysirbatniji.com/
368	Home Away From Home / Roots	2017	8:06	Taysir Batniji	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJmvMPVI3K0		https://www.taysirbatniji.com/
369	Home Away from Home / The Journey	2017	22:37	Taysir Batniji	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fG77ymdXSE		https://www.taysirbatniji.com/
370	Home Away From Home \| The Divine	2017	15:11	Taysir Batniji	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NLJE7Yftf8		https://www.taysirbatniji.com/
371	Healing	2017	12:00	Essa Grayeb	full film	https://vimeo.com/282599088		https://www.essagrayeb.com/	"Subcontracted Nations" group exhibition 2018, Ramallah	n/a	n/a
372	memory scan	2017	5:40	Essa Grayeb	full film	https://vimeo.com/212194766		https://www.essagrayeb.com/
373	Little Jerusalem	2017	6:58	Zena Agha	full film	https://vimeo.com/218408360		https://zenaagha.com/film/little-jerusalem/	Little Jerusalem tells the story of Andala – a Palestinian-owned cafe in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The owner, Sami Herbawi, narrates his life outside his home city of Jerusalem and his experience in the diaspora.	Arabic	English
374	Why Are You Angry?	2017	19:00	Rosalind Nashashibi, Lucy Skaer	full film	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YCgiT8H4ZS_xhwCA8RxPvZQH719BteXT/		bookings@lux.org.uk	Taking its title from one of Paul Gauguin’s (1848–1903) late paintings made in Tahiti, No te aha oe riri (Why Are You Angry?) 1896 (Art Institute of Chicago), Nashashibi / Skaer’s film follows Gauguin’s voyage to Tahiti. As a contemporary exploration of the established narratives that surround Gauguin and his time in French Polynesia, the film also functions as a reclamation of the exoticised woman and asks fundamental questions about representations of women, colonised lands and the power of myth.
375	Memory of the Land	2017	13:00	Samira Badran	excerpt	http://www.samirabadran.com/art-portfolio/memory-of-the-land/#:~:text=Memory%20of%20the%20Land%2C%20is,identity%20as%20forms%20of%20resilience.&text=Palestine.,mechanism%20of%20the%20Israeli%20occupation.			A reflection of the human condition under the yoke of different forms of violence, collective memory and identity as forms of resilience. A body is trapped at a checkpoint; an essential mechanism of the Israeli occupation. The body is pierced by structural and physical violence, which is aggressive and arbitrary and prevents and attacks its free movement and existence.
376	Six Miles Out	2017	11:00	Hosam Abu Dan	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r113lDH2VDY			Gaza fishermen sail into the Mediterranean at night to bring in a meagre catch to eat and sell—an act of bravery since the Israeli Navy prowls nearby, ready to shoot.	Arabic	English
377	Strawberry	2017	16:20	Aida Ka'adan	excerpt	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gr2XL8R4-c			Samir is the owner of a shoe shop in Ramallah who has never seen the sea. He decides to sneak past the Israeli border with other Palestinian construction workers to fulfill his dream.	Arabic
378	A Drowning Man	2017	15:30	Mahdi Fleifel	full film (accessible with vod rental)	https://vimeo.com/ondemand/adrowningman/305084808		info@nakbafilmworks.com	Alone and far from home, The Kid makes his way through a strange city looking for the means to get through his day. Surrounded by predators he is forced to make compromises merely to survive, his life of exile grows one day longer.	Arabic	English
379	Your Father Was Born 100 Years Old, and So Was the Nakba	2017	6:59	Razan AlSalah	full film	https://vimeo.com/214789743		https://www.momento-films.com/movie/your-father-was-born-100-years-old-and-so-was-nakba	This doc-fiction is a (re)construction, a (re)collection of the memory of returning to Haifa. It is an imaginary memory of retuning to Haifa. Razan AlSalah is imagining her grandmother was able to return to Haifa when she was still alive, through Google Streetview, which today is the only way she could see Palestine, the only way Razan can see Palestine.
380	Wajib	2017	1:37:06	Annemarie Jacir	full film (accessible with subscription)	https://www.istikana.com/en/episodes/wajib-1		https://www.philistinefilms.com/	A father and his estranged son must come together to hand-deliver his daughter's wedding invitations to each guest.	Arabic	English
381	Naila and the Uprising	2017	1:16:59	Julia Bacha	full film	https://justvision.org/nailaandtheuprising		https://justvision.org/boycott/host-a-screening	A woman from Gaza joins a clandestine network of women who are determined to make the world recognize Palestine's right to self-determination.	Arabic	English
382	1948: Creation & Catastrophe	2017	1:25:29	Ahlam Muhtaseb & Andy Trimlett	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwy-Rf15UIs		https://www.1948movie.com/	1948: Creation & Catastrophe is the story of the establishment of Israel as seen through the eyes of the people who lived it. Rather than being a history lesson, this documentary is a primer for the present. It is simply not possible to make sense of what is happening in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict today without an understanding of 1948.	English, Arabic, Hebrew	English
383	Stitching Palestine	2017	78:00	Carol Mansour	excerpt	https://watch.eventive.org/arabfilm/play/653bed36fc5ba900324a3b51		Forward Film Production: Muna Khalidi, munakhalidi@fwdprod.com & Carole Mansour: cmansour@fwdprod.com	Twelve Palestinian women sit before us and talk of their life before the Diaspora, of their memories, of their lives and of their identity. Their narratives are connected by the enduring thread of the ancient art of embroidery. Twelve resilient, determined and articulate women from disparate walks of life: lawyers, artists, housewives, activists, architects, and politicians stitch together the story of their homeland, of their dispossession, and of their unwavering determination that justice will prevail. Through their stories, the individual weaves into the collective, yet remaining distinctly personal. Twelve women, twelve life-spans, and stories from Palestine; a land whose position was fixed on the map of the world, but is now embroidered on its face.	Arabic	English
384	Looted and Hidden - Palestinian Archives in Israel	2017	4618	Rona Sela	full film	https://archive.org/details/LOOTED		https://www.filmplatform.net/product/looted-and-hidden/		English, Arabic, Hebrew	English
385	Ghost Hunting	2017	1:34:00	Raed Andoni	full film (accessible with vod rental)	https://vimeo.com/ondemand/ghosthuntingvod/306995598		https://www.urbandistrib.com/films/ghost-hunting/	In order to confront the ghosts that haunt him, Palestinian director Raed Andoni assembles an eclectic group of ex-prisoners to recreate the Al-Moskobiya, Israel’s main interrogation centre, where he was himself jailed at age 18. Day after day, these construction workers, a blacksmith, an architect, an assistant director give shape to their memories of how they survived with grit and a sense of humor. As the walls of the cells rise, the tongues and the emotions loosen.	Arabic	English
386	Gaza Surf Club	2017	87:00	Philip Gnadt, Mickey Yamine	full film (accessible with vod rental)	https://vimeo.com/ondemand/gazasurfclub/289511949		https://mad-distribution.film/movies/movie111525.php	Gaza Surf Club is a 2016 documentary film from Little Bridge Pictures, which follows several surfers from Gaza and documents their efforts to surf and survive. The film takes a "day in the life" approach and does not discuss the Gaza Surf Club project itself but instead focuses on some the characters that make up the Gaza Surf Club community.	Arabic	English
387	Ouroboros	2017	77:00	Basma Alsharif	full film	https://vimeo.com/884444627		https://www.momento-films.com/movie/ouroboros	Ouroboros is acclaimed visual artist Basma Alsharif's first feature film. This experimental film is an homage to the Gaza Strip and to the possibility of hope based on the eternal return. The film follows a man through five different landscapes, upending mass-mediated representation of trauma. A journey outside of time, marking the end as the beginning, exploring the subject of the eternal return and how we move forward when all is lost.	Arabic, English	English
388	The Reports on Sarah and Saleem	2017	1:27:00	Muayad Alayan	excerpt	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc_ms3hptvM&embeds_referring_euri=http%3A%2F%2Fmad-distribution.film%2F&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY&feature=emb_logo		http://mad-distribution.film/movies/movie1115144.php	Set in Jerusalem, Sarah and Saleem are having an extramarital affair that ignites a dangerous game of deceit between those who hold power and those who don’t.	Arabic	English
389	From Under the Rubble	2017	85:00	Anne Tsoulis	full film (accessible with vod rental)	https://vimeo.com/ondemand/fromundertherubble2		https://mad-distribution.film/movies/movie1115118.php	The Gaza Strip is 28 miles long, and 3-7 miles wide crammed with an overflowing population of 1.7 million people, imprisoned, unable to move due to mechanisms of apartheid imposed by the Israeli Government. In January 2009, Israel’s air and ground forces entered Gaza, an incursion called “Operation Cast Lead,” (also known as the Gaza Massacre) where 3 weeks of heavy shelling, civilian executions, and experiments with white phosphorus rocked the small stretch of land, resulting in 1,400 Palestinian deaths. Strongly criticized by the United Nations, the massacre stands out as one of the most devastating incidents that has taken place in lieu of the Israel/Palestine conflict. Of particular note is the story of the Samouni family, farmers in the Zeitoun farming district in the southern sector of Gaza City, their land and neighborhood decimated during the siege, killing dozens of the family members most of which were women and children. A detailed personal account of the adolescent/children survivors, director Anne Tsoulis’ From Under The Rubble: A Story From Gaza sheds light on the 2009 incident the world so urgently wants to forget, as stories of destruction, horror, and war crimes unfold. From gut-wrenching interviews with the survivors, Palestinian paramedics, a former UN official, and a Norwegian volunteer doctor with a heart of gold, to archival video taken by civilians during the conflict, alongside excerpts from the 2011 animated short film Samouni Street interspersed throughout, Tsoulis’ documentary isn’t for the faint of heart, but nevertheless is one of the most critically important films on the topic of the Gaza Massacre to date. Screened in the official 2017 selections of the Adelaide Film Festival and the Asia Pacific Screen Awards.	Arabic, English	English
390	Palace of the Slave	2017	9:47	Oraib Toukan	excerpt	https://vimeo.com/225419261	Ff2VC8Ya8qJCQ5E	stillsalt@gmail.com	Palace of the Slave is centered around the open mouth of a crushed lion, and a cub's gaze. It takes a Hellenic ruin in Jordan to compare pixel to strata, to analyze the mechanics of gazing at the digital representation of ruin, via historical record.
391	Bonbone	2017	15:00	Rakan Mayasi					A Palestinian couple resorts to an unusual way to conceive as the husband is detained in an Israeli jail where visits are restricted.
392	The Magic of the Photo that Remember how to forget	2018	7:10	Noor Abuarafeh	full film	https://vimeo.com/353994194			The video examines the ability of the photograph to remember‭. ‬What information could a photograph reveal about the past and what‭ ‬could it hide‭. ‬The work takes one single photograph which an artist disappeared from and attempts to understand and highlight this removal from the visual canon‭. ‬The photograph was taken in Jerusalem in 1985‭ ‬in an artists’‭ ‬group exhibition‭. ‬The work is dedicated to palestinian artist Vera Tamari
393	Witness From The East	2018	47:39	Ayed Nabaa	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9mKvNBOM28			When Japanese journalist Ryuichi Hirokawa went to Israel in 1967 to work on a kibbutz, he was fascinated by the idea of a farming community based on socialist principles. He wanted to work there and study Hebrew. But two weeks after his arrival, the 1967 Arab-Israeli war erupted. "I thought Israel was right in this war, because the Palestinians and Arabs wanted to destroy Israel," says Hirokawa. But one day, he stumbled across rubble covered with cacti and scattered rocks that later proved to be the remains of the village of Daliyat al-Rawha - a village that had disappeared from the map. "I asked people in the kibbutz [about the village] but they didn't answer me," Hirokawa recalls. Hirokawa investigated what had happened to the village and, checking an old English map, next to the names of former Palestinian villages he found the word 'destroyed'. "I was shocked. I thought I was working in a farm belonging to the kibbutz. But I realised I was working in a place where people once had a life ... I thought there must be people in this country who, like us, would say the war was wrong, the lands shouldn't be seized and must be returned." Hirokawa says his investigation taught him about Nakba and changed his perception of the founding of Israel and the Palestinian cause. After his return to Japan, and throughout his career as a journalist, Hirokawa continued to document the plight of Palestinians, including their expulsion to Lebanon. He documented the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre in Beirut and eventually presented his evidence at international hearings in Oslo and Geneva. "When I heard about the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in June 1982, my heart went out to the Palestinian people who had suffered so much. In 1948, they were expelled by Israel. And for 30 years they lived as refugees," says Hirokawa. "Their only hope was to liberate their country and return home ... However, from the very start of the Israeli invasion, it was very clear that the aim was not only to destroy the PLO. The Israelis also tried to kill the greatest number of Palestinians." Since 1948, over 420 Palestinian villages have disappeared. Hirokawa filmed over 1,000 hours of footage and took thousands of photographs of Palestinians and their former villages, which he eventually turned into his own film about the Nakba. Although aged 71 when 'Witness From The East' was made, Ryuichi Hirokawa is still enthusiastically working, and is very much motivated by his life's mission to uncover the truth. "We need to collect evidence about what really happened in Palestine, which they call Israel, about what these ruins really are and what happened to the people who used to be there. We need to find that out."	Japanese, Arabic	English
394	Am I the Ageless Object at the Museum	2018	15:07	Noor Abuarafeh	full film	https://vimeo.com/277969330			The video is based on a narrative that is written in parallel with several visits to different zoos and zoologies in Palestine, ‬Switzerland and Egypt‭. ‬The film is under a larger umbrella that contains different works that range between video‭, ‬video installation‭, ‬Novel and performance‭,‬ in which each of these episodes deal with the concept of the museum from a different perspective‭. ‬The projected video deals with the construction of the zoo and its historical relation to the museum, ‬and the relation between museums and cemeteries .. ‬Where the three of these components are related to the discipline of history and uses a similar aesthetics in the display of the history representation‭.‬
395	Killing in Umm al-Hiran	2018	11:28	Forensic Architecture	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNnoP8rrntE		info@forensicarchitecture.org	Shortly before dawn on 18 January 2017, a large police force raided the illegalized Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran at the northern threshold of the Naqab/Negev Desert in order to demolish several houses. Two people were killed: a Bedouin villager, Yaqub Musa Abu al-Qi’an, and an Israeli policeman, Erez Levi. Immediately after the incident, the Israeli government and police claimed the incident was a ‘terror attack’ by Abu al-Qi’an, and further, that he had links to Daesh (ISIS). Forensic Architecture’s investigation of the incident, in collaboration with the activist group ActiveStills, helped to expose the falseness of this narrative, and established the veracity of local residents and activist claims that Abu al-Qi’an lost control of his vehicle and ran over Levi only after being shot by Israeli policemen, subsequently left to bleed out and die. This analysis assisted in forcing the police to retract its narrative of the events, and led to an internal police investigation yet to be concluded. Read more: https://www.forensic-architecture.org... Inquiries contact: info [at] forensic-architecture.org	English, Arabic, Hebrew	English
396	Ground Truth	2018	19:30	Forensic Architecture	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17zqOHYTbdU		info@forensicarchitecture.org	Ground Truth is an ongoing project that aims to provide historical and juridical evidence on behalf of communities in the illegalised Palestinian Bedouin villages in the northern threshold of the Negev/Naqab desert, Israel. While forced physical displacement and illegalisation render these communities non-existent on maps and aerial imaging, state-led land works and afforestation transform and erase their land and material cultural remains. The project aims to document and collate disparate legal, historical, and material evidence for the continuity of the sedentary presence of the Bedouin population on this land, as well as traces of their repeated displacement and destruction by government forces.	English, Arabic, Hebrew	English
397	About A War	2018	82:00	Daniele Rugo & Abi Weaver	full film (accessible with vod rental)	https://vimeo.com/ondemand/aboutawar		https://www.iterationsfilm.com/about-a-war-doc	The Lebanese Civil War saw 250,000 dead, 1 million displaced and 17,000 people still missing. During the conflict thousands of teenagers picked up arms to fight in a 15 years war that tore the nation apart. In 1990, the Taif agreement brought the war to a close, integrating warring parties into a power sharing government. With an amnesty pardoning all crimes against civilians and no plans to reintegrate militiamen back into society, many fighters became anonymous, silent and were left to disappear into a society ravaged by internal strife. Moving through the testimonies of Assad, a right wing Christian intelligence officer; Ahed, a Palestinian refugee fighter and Nassim, a Communist commander, About a War unpicks the personal motivations, trauma and regret of militiamen who picked up arms during the civil war. With no official account of the conflict, their testimonies build a multi-perspective picture of a crucial turning point in Lebanese history that radically transformed the Middle East. Nowadays, ex-fighters Ahed, Assad and Nassim work towards breaking cycles of violence among young people in Lebanon. While their own personal confessions delve deeper into issues of violence and politics in the Middle East, they also stand as a cautionary tale for a country that continues to be marred by inequality and sectarian divide.
398	On The Doorstep	2018	46:24	Sahera Dirbas	full film (accessible with subscription)	https://www.istikana.com/en/episodes/on-the-doorstep-1			Three generations of the Bisharat family in the US have maintained their emotional attachment to their family home in West Jerusalem, taken over by Israelis in 1948. Among them is 21-year-old Valerie who traveled across the world to visit her grandfather’s house, and managed to meet its current inhabitant, 96-year-old Gisele.	English, Arabic, Hebrew	English
399	I Signed The Petition	2018	10:00	Mahdi Fleifel	full film (accessible with subscription)	https://vimeo.com/284953384		info@nakbafilmworks.com	A conversation between two friends about the effectiveness and implications of publicly supporting the cultural boycott of Israel. One friend is wracked with worry having signed a petition asking Radiohead not to play Tel Aviv, the other is more sanguine.	English	English
400	Shrapnel	2018	10:00	Mohmmad Krunz	excerpt	https://www.istikana.com/en/episodes/shrapnel-1			Youssef is from Gaza, he is 19 years old, he works as a photographer in Gaza, he was filming peaceful events on borders he was shot in his feet and then he moved to a hospital in Gaza, the doctors cannot help him there to save his left foot, then the doctors decided to cut off his left foot, after trying with Israel's soldiers to move him to hospital in the west bank to let him take a better therapy to save his right foot by the doctors in the west bank, and then they accepted 0 and confirm to go to the west bank, you went to the west bank and he was trying to adapt there, and hope to achieve his goals to be a photographer.	Arabic	English
401	Wild Relatives	2018	1:05:00	Jumana Manna	excerpt	https://vimeo.com/286869277		http://www.jumanamanna.com/	Filmmaker Jumana Manna investigates the complex pathway of seed distribution between Lebanon's Beqaa Valley and the Global Seed Vault deep inside Norway's Svalbard archipelago.	Arabic	English	to enable English subtitles, download file and play in vlc with subtitle track set to 1 (English)
402	The White Elephant	2018	12:16	Shuruq Harb	excerpt	https://vimeo.com/180154198		harbsh@gmail.com	Using images shared on the Internet by Israelis during the Gulf War, the First Intifada and trance music gatherings, Shuruq Harb composes the portrait of a Palestinian teenager in the 1990s, in the mirror of Israeli pop culture.	English	Arabic
403	Palestine Underground	2018	27:49	Jessica Kelly	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-R8S7QwO1g			For the past ten years, Palestinian music collective Jazar Crew have been fostering a vibrant party scene in Haifa, as an alternative to the mainstream club scene in Israel. Thanks to the internet, they've connected with artists in Ramallah, Palestine, and defied the separation wall to travel to the West Bank and organise events with Techno DJs Sama' Abdulhadi and Oddz, and members of the tantalising hip hop and trap scene, the collectives Saleb Wahad and Bltnm. Palestine Underground follows a week in the life of these artists and friends, in the lead up to the first Boiler Room in Ramallah in June this year.	English, Arabic	English
404	Wild Plants of Palestine	2018	10:00	Alaa Abu Asad	excerpt	https://vimeo.com/263389501		aboasad.alaa[at]gmail[dot]com	Wild Plants of Palestine follows journeys of observational tours solicited by the Palestinian Museum and conducted by two professors from Birzeit University to collect photos of and information on the Palestinian Flora. The title is adapted from a collection of 123 images (circa 1900 to 1920) of wild flowers in Palestine found in the Matson Collection in the Library of Congress. Despite the tendency to trace the wild plants, the text in general aims at questioning the territorial extension of what is meant by the term “Palestinian”, while standing on insignificant topographical features of the (postcolonial) landscape in West Bank. Furthermore, it addresses photography as a practice and a tool of distributing and restricting information at once.	English
405	Between Two Crossings	2018	43:00	Yaser Murtaja, Rushdi Al-Sarraj	excerpt	https://watch.eventive.org/arabfilm/play/654978f394e24500e2219b56		https://www.nfb.ca/film/apollo-of-gaza/	Between Two Crossings بين معبرين is a documentary film that follows the journey of Nour, a Palestinian student from Gaza who had a scholarship to enroll in Portland State University in the United States. But in order to get there, Nour struggled to find a way to travel through the only two gates separating the Gaza Strip from the rest of the world: Erez Checkpoint, controlled by Israel; and Rafah Crossing, controlled by Egypt. The documentary is a presentation of the extreme restrictions of freedom of movement that Gaza has endured for decades and shines a humanizing spotlight on everyday people navigating the anxiety of waiting and attempting to cross the border.	Arabic, English	English
406	Basta	2018	1:25	yann beauvais	full film	https://vimeo.com/264395138		rentals@lightcone.org	cinétract about the conflict in Gaza march /april 2018.	English, French	n/a
407	Palestine's Stolen Images	2018	1:45:00	Rodrigo Vazquez	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akNNQA5cfic			Tracing the last 18 years of conflict between Israel and Palestine, this film-essay reflects on the shared history of national liberation movements in Latin America and the Middle East. Directed by Argentinian documentarian Rodrigo Vazquez, the film combines exclusive interviews with historical figures, direct-cinema from the battle-field and never-before-seen archival footage found in 2011, gathering dust on a shelf, in the Cuban Film Institute.	Spanish, Arabic	Variable (check notes)	to enable subtitles click on the CC option on youtube, then got to the settings, click autotranslate and select a language of your choosing
408	The Apollo of Gaza	2018	1:18:46	Nicolas Wadimoff	full film	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C-FegUI0l17Bk_cJVmiJPenD23PJFIKP/		https://www.nfb.ca/film/apollo-of-gaza/, https://www.akkafilms.ch/en/apollo/	In 2013, an ancient statue of Apollo was found in the waters off Gaza—before disappearing under mysterious circumstances. Is it the work of forgers, or a gift from the gods to a Palestinian people desperately in need of hope? Soon the rumours start to swirl, while behind the scenes local and international players start jostling—some driven by historical preservation and others by purely commercial interests. Filmed in Gaza and Jerusalem, The Apollo of Gaza plays out like a mystery built around a national treasure that is the stuff of dreams. The Apollo of Gaza is an engaging reflection on the passage of time and the fragility of civilizations, as well as a poetic and philosophical meditation that immerses us in the often-misunderstood realities of life in a place that continues to pay a heavy price for the seemingly endless Israeli-Palestinian conflict—a place where life doggedly carries on, resisting. Like a meteor streaking across the sky, the statue of Apollo brings a moment of light and beauty to Gaza. Can it help restore dignity to a people, revealing a glorious history and fostering pride in a nation often misrepresented and demeaned?	French, Arabic	English
409	Mussolini’s Sister	2018	1:10:00	Juna Suleiman	full film	https://shashamovies.com/movies/mussolinis-sister/			In a documentary with a dash of fiction, we enter the mind of the elderly Hiam, a Palestinian woman from Nazareth. We see her at the hairdresser's, waxing her upper lip and shuffling her way to bed. The mundanity of everyday life acquires extra layers of meaning because the filmmaker Juna Suleiman-her granddaughter-accompanies many scenes with internal monologues from Hiam. Gradually we gain a picture of her past: her marriage, her family and her wealthy brother, who bears the remarkable first name of Mussolini. Hiam's life is nearly over. Just a few threads are left to connect this lonely and embittered woman with the outside world: the telephone, the TV, her housekeeper and her 55-year-old son Mbadda. Like Hiam, he's blunt and sarcastic. The question rises as to when the present becomes history, as fragments of TV news gradually transition into old footage of a wedding. Through the protagonist's oppressively small world, Mussolini's Sister takes an original and restrained approach to large themes, such as arranged marriage, loneliness, decline and racism.	Arabic, English	English
410	Screwdriver	2018	1:48:00	Bassam Jarbawi	excerpt	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGBx5zne06c		http://mad-distribution.film/movies/movie1115185.php	Palestinian director Bassam Jarbawi's debut feature film tackles the physical and emotional toll of one man's return home after 15 years in an Israeli jail.	Arabic	English
411	The Lobby	2018	Four Parts	Al Jazeera	full film	https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzGHKb8i9vTzCgnbENCKuz7fqU12xNBce		Al Jazeera	In four-part series, Al Jazeera goes undercover inside the Israel Lobby in Britain.	English
412	A Certain Distance	2018	2:11	Oraib Toukan	excerpt	https://vimeo.com/673513543	UarqVE2sTSreeuU	stillsalt@gmail.com	A Certain Distance was shot from the Quneitra overlook in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights which became a spot to gaze at the war in Syria. The edit borrows the audio of a sequence in Omar Amiralay's 1997 film 'A Plate of Sardines', in which Amiralay asks Director Mohammad Malas to walk the same exact scene of ruin in Malas's 1974 film on Israel's return of his home-town of Quneitra in rubble.
413	The Silent Protest: Jerusalem 1929	2019	20:05	Mahasen Nasser-Eldin	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHn3_52Efbs		contact@momento-films.com	In 1929, Palestinian women launched their women’s movement. Approximately 300 women converged on Jerusalem from all over Palestine. They held a silent demonstration through a car convoy to protest at the British High Commissioner’s bias against Arabs in the Buraq uprising. This is their story.		English
414	Ibrahim: A Fate to Define	2019	1:15:00	Lina Al Abed	excerpt	https://vimeo.com/353030654		info@idiomsfilm.com	In this provocative and personal documentary, director Lina Al Abed searches for traces of her disappeared father: a seemingly ordinary Palestinian family man who was actually a secret member of a militant splinter faction and vanished when she was just a child. Her journey to discover what happened to her father becomes a quest to define her identity, and her relationship to Ibrahim’s fate.	Arabic
415	In Vitro	2019	27:44	Larissa Sansour, Søren Lind	excerpt	https://vimeo.com/905243415		info@mecfilm.de	An abandoned nuclear reactor under the biblical town of Bethlehem has been converted into an enormous orchard. Using heirloom seeds collected in the final days before the apocalypse, a group of scientists are preparing to replant the soil above.	Arabic	English
416	letter to a friend	2019	43:28	Emily Jacir	excerpt	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOjDghqNcsA		distribution@arsenal-berlin.de	A close friend is asked to start an investigation before an inevitable act occurs. Interlacing images, textures, movements, traces, and sounds from over a century, letter to a friend recounts in minute detail a home and street in Bethlehem.	English	English
417	Missing 48	2019	19:56	Abed Alfattah Dawod	full film (accessible with subscription)	https://www.istikana.com/en/episodes/missing-48-1		.	In addition to Palestine, the 1948 war had repercussions on all Arab countries, especially on the families of soldiers who fought to defend Palestine. The war claimed many lives, some of whom’s fate, martyrdom and burial was not recorded by history. Since the transmitted memory is the document of proof for the survival and defense of the occupied land and the stolen past, director Abed Alfattah Dawod traces the journey of researcher Tarek Al Bakri on his quest to find the story of one of the Jordanian soldiers who participated in the war and was registered as missing. Al Bakri sought to exhume remnants of memory from the war by researching a group of documents and information that was exchanged since 1948 to find out the fate of the missing soldier through official records and to know the place of his burial in the event of his martyrdom. Despite 70 years of losing track of him, the film served as a chance to revive hope for his family.	Arabic	English
418	The Killing of Rouzan al-Najjar	2019	14:29	Forensic Architecture	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOmpLpvwCYY		info@forensicarchitecture.org		English	English
419	Gaza	2019	1:40:00	Andrew McConnell, Garry Keane	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejml7_paZX8			A portrait of a people attempting to lead meaningful lives against the rubble of perennial conflict and going beyond the reach of television news reports to reveal a world rich with eloquent and resilient characters.
420	Gaza Fights for Freedom	2019	1:23:57	Abby Martin	full film	https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/gaza-fights-for-freedom/		theempirefiles@gmail.com	This debut feature film by journalist Abby Martin began while reporting in Palestine, where she was denied entry into Gaza by the Israeli government on the accusation she was a “propagandist.” So Abby connected with a team of journalists in Gaza to produce the film through the blockaded border. It is a documentary about the historic Great March Of Return protests, which occurred every week from March 2018 until December 2019, but covers so much more. It tells the story of Gaza past and present, showing rare archival footage that explains the history never acknowledged by mass media. You hear from victims of the ongoing massacre, including journalists, medics and the family of internationally-acclaimed paramedic, Razan al-Najjar. At its core, ‘Gaza Fights For Freedom’ is a thorough indictment of the Israeli military for war crimes with exclusive documentary evidence and a stunning cinematic portrayal of Palestinians' heroic resistance.	English, Arabic	English
421	It Must Be Heaven	2019	1:42:00	Elia Suleiman	full film	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Dk8u00d5VQn_645TcFwOU27S5LJh569l/			Elia Suleiman escapes from Palestine seeking an alternative homeland, only to find that Palestine is trailing behind him. The promise of a new life turns into a comedy of errors: however far he travels, from Paris to New York.	English, French, Arabic	English
422	The Sun and the Looking Glass	2019	23:11	Milena Desse	full film	https://vimeo.com/402229341		info@idiomsfilm.com	On a land perpetually threatened by colonial appropriation, the transmission of history and narratives plays a peculiar and vital role. The Sun and the Looking Glass is an essay-film which paints a portrait of a place on a hill above Ein Qiniya, a Palestinian village in the West Bank, with two houses from the late Ottoman period. Looking at the objects uncovered during their renovations through a magnifying lens, the film performs the creation of narratives, through dynamic processes of revelation and disappearance.
423	A Remake of a Revolutionary Film	2019	6:43	Azza El-Hassan	full film	https://vimeo.com/561337653		https://www.azzaelhassanfilms.com/	From the personal photo album of Palestinian photographer and cinematographer, Hani Jawherieh, El Hassan reconstructs the last five minutes of Hani Jawherieh’s life, who was killed while filming in the mountains in Lebanon. The five minutes were featured in Palestine in the Eye (1977) a film made by the Palestine Film Institute to commemorate the life of one of it’s founders. Yet, forty-two years later, what motivates these images takes on a different turn in A Remake of a Revolutionary Film.	English
424	The Return of Osiris	2019	13:44	Essa Grayeb	full film	https://vimeo.com/692766672		https://www.essagrayeb.com/thereturnofosiris	After the loss of the 1967 War, then-Egyptian president, Gamal Abdel Nasser, appeared in front of the world and gave an iconic speech. There he announced the defeat, as well as his resignation. For many, this marked the doom of the Arab nationalism that Nasser himself had led and inspired. The Return of Osiris re-examines this moment through its dramatization in dozens of Egyptian films and television series produced between 1976 and 2016. The found footage was edited to reconstruct Nasser’ resignation speech according to the original text. By collecting, cataloging, and rearranging visual materials from popular culture, director Essa Grayeb simultaneously highlights the challenge of conveying historical and political moments in art and the power that cinema has in building a collective memory of trauma.	Arabic	English
425	Yom al Ard [Land Day]	2019	15:21	Monica Maurer	full film	https://www.facebook.com/DarJacir/videos/886637918430210			Yom Al Ard (2019) is a portrait about the fragmentation of the land, the experience, and the people of Palestine, showcasing the systematic efforts to disperse, fragment, and destroy the audiovisual memory and collective identity of Palestinians. It is composed of rare footage shot in the Galilee (Nazareth, Deir Hanna, and Sakhnin) in celebration of the 5th Land Day Anniversary on March 1981 that has recently been restored and digitized. The film pays homage to the transversal unity of the people, their collective energy in the defense of Palestinian identity- unimaginable today - and to their charismatic leader, the five times Mayor of Nazareth and poet Tawfik Zayyad.	English
426	Spaces of Exception	2019	90:00	Matt Peterson and Malek Rasamny	listing	https://thenativeandtherefugee.com			Spaces of Exception investigates and juxtaposes the struggles, communities, and spaces of the American Indian reservation and the Palestinian refugee camp. The film was shot from 2014 to 2017 in Arizona, New Mexico, New York, and South Dakota, as well as in Lebanon and the West Bank. Directed by Matt Peterson and Malek Rasamny, it is an attempt to understand the significance of the land—its memory and divisions—and the conditions for life, community, and sovereignty. Spaces of Exception comes out of the long-term multimedia project The Native and the Refugee, which has been presented in Canada, Denmark, Ecuador, England, France, Guatemala, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Portugal, Syria, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates, within the refugee camps and reservations were the film was shot, and at venues including cinemas, museums, and universities.	Arabic	English
427	Ambience	2019	15:00	Wisam Al-Jafari	excerpt	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkXHaSS9EBo&t=1s		http://mad-distribution.film/movies/movie1115335.php	Two young Palestinians try to record a demo for a music competition inside a noisy, crowded refugee camp. While failing to record because of the chaos of their surroundings, they discover a creative way to allow them to meet the deadline.	Arabic	English
428	Colors of Resistance	2019	34:00	Areeb Zuiter	excerpt	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfFTdqTT-sU		http://mad-distribution.film/movies/movie1115459.php	Colors of Resistance is a personal journey aiming to question the concept of belonging to a place. In this journey, director Areeb Zuaiter sneaks into the worlds of a painter, a comedian, a poet, a hip-hop artist, and a solo singer to explore their tools to express their identities and belonging to Palestine — the same land that is being denied its right to exist.	Arabic, English	English
429	The Tower	2019	1:17:00	Matt Grorud	excerpt	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPM-jXBrPdA			Beirut, Lebanon, Today. Wardi, an eleven-year-old Palestinian girl, lives with her whole family in the refugee camp where she was born. Her beloved great-grandfather Sidi was one of the first people to settle in the camp after being chased from his home back in 1948. As she searches for Sidi’s lost hope around the camp, she will collect her family’s testimonies, from one generation to the next.	English	various
430	Lamb	2019	6:18	Rosalind Nashashibi, Lucy Skaer	full film	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VA2ESEshRrhWFfYrsySPmLX4tY8LIvi5/		bookings@lux.org.uk	The film was shot over a course of mornings in a farmer’s lambing shed near Lucy Skaer’s house on the island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. Ewes are in labour, giving birth or tending to their lambs. The soundtrack is a musical composition by composer Will Carslake and singer Olivia Ray in collaboration with Rosalind Nashashibi, using trumpet, breath, voice and Piano.	n/a	n/a
431	Maradona's Legs	2019	23:00	Firas Khoury	excerpt	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhHuEvgu2p8		Netflix	During the 1990 World Cup, two young Palestinian boys are looking for "Maradona's legs": the last missing sticker that they need in order to complete their world cup album and win a free Atari.	Arabic	English
432	Triple-Chaser	2019	10:35	Forensic Architecture	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93rjwQMww9M		Forensic Architecture	When US border agents fired tear gas grenades at civilians in November 2018, photographs showed that many of those grenades were manufactured by the Safariland Group, one of the world’s major manufacturers of so-called ‘less-lethal munitions’. The Safariland Group is owned by Warren B. Kanders, the vice chair of the board of trustees of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Whereas the export of military equipment from the US is a matter of public record, the sale and export of tear gas is not. As a result, it is only when images of tear gas canisters appear online that monitoring organizations and the public can know where they have been sold, and who is using them. But this kind of manual research is laborious, and time-consuming. Automating any part of that process could be hugely beneficial to human rights monitors, and the pursuit of corporate accountability in the global arms trade.	English	English
433	Made in Palestine	2019	8:!5	Mariam Dwedar	full film	https://www.nowness.com/series/craft-work/made-in-palestine-hirbawi		Nowness	Hirbawi Textiles is the last-remaining factory in Palestine that produces the iconic Palestinian scarf known as the Kuffiyeh.	Arabic	English
434	Samia Halaby: A Video Portrait	2020	8:21	Munir Atalla	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cyCUTQDCn0			A portrait of the abstract painter Samia Halaby.	Arabic/Englisy	English
435	The Present	2020	24:25	Farah Nabulsi	full film	https://vimeo.com/551330271		https://www.premium-films.com/catalogue/the-present	On his wedding anniversary, Yusef and his young daughter set out in the West Bank to buy his wife a gift. Between soldiers, segregated roads and checkpoints, how easy would it be to go shopping?	Arabic, English, Hebrew	English
436	Three Logical Exits	2020	14:47	Mahdi Fleifel	full film	https://www.istikana.com/en/episodes/3-logical-exits-1		info@nakbafilmworks.com	In the summer of 2019, Mahdi Fleifel went back to the Ain el-Helweh refugee camp in Lebanon to visit his friend Reda, who was also the subject of his previous film, A Man Returned. When Mahdi arrives, thousands of Palestinians have just taken to the streets to protest against discriminatory measures by the Lebanese government. A sociological meditation on the different ‘exits’ young Palestinians choose in order to cope with life in the refugee camps.	Arabic	English	to enable English subtitles, download file and play in vlc with subtitle track set to 1 (English)	.
437	Son of the Streets	2020	33:21	Mohammed Almughanni	excerpt	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qLOwI92c-8		mohamugha@gmail.com	Khodor (13) a child whose family tries to issue him an ID document that proves his existence and gives him the right to education, healthcare and movement outside of the Palestinian refugee camp of Shatila in Beirut, Lebanon. Throughout the process, many of the family old secrets get revealed.	Arabic	English	to enable English subtitles, download file and play in vlc with subtitle track set to 1 (English)	.
438	Mariam	2020	5:00	Dana Durr	listing	https://watch.eventive.org/arabfilm/play/6532c8fc8713b800946c8bad/6532c0ad2cbc170041adcc36		https://danadurr.com/	Mariam undergoes a journey to find strength within herself through her culture and heritage, after the loss of her precious paradise.	n/a	n/a
439	Palestine 1920: The Other Side of the Palestinian Story	2020	47:04	Ashraf Mashharawi	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUCeQt8zg5o			“A land without a people, and a people without a land” is how the relationship between Palestine and the Jewish people was described by Christian writers in the 1800s. And the 20th-century history of the Middle East has largely been written through these eyes. But this film from Al Jazeera Arabic looks at Palestine from a different angle. It hears from historians and witness accounts, and features archive documents that show Palestine as a thriving province of Greater Syria and the Ottoman Empire at the dawn of the 20th century. The evidence suggests that its cities had a developing trade and commercial sector, growing infrastructure, and embryonic culture that would enable it to meet the challenges of the decades ahead. However, the political ramifications of the Balfour Declaration, San Remo Conference and British Mandate set in motion a series of events that profoundly affected this vibrant, fledgeling society and led to the events of 1948 and beyond. This film is the other side of the Palestinian story.	English, Arabic	English
440	هي هيك	2020	18:00	Al-Haq	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUziC3MA4yc&list=PL2538DAC2FDF52432&index=6		Al-Haq	The city of Jerusalem and what it means to its Palestinian people. What are the obstacles, barriers and obstacles that the occupation has erected in front of its owners to force them to leave it? How do the Palestinians, the people of Jerusalem, face all these difficulties and continue to withstand all attempts to Judaize the Holy City?	Arabic	English
441	Sebastia	2020	24:51	Dima Srouji	full film	https://vimeo.com/463782519			Sebastia, a small archaeological town, sits on top of a hill Northwest of Nablus, Palestine surrounded by Shavei Shomron, an illegal Israeli settlement and confiscated agricultural fields of olive groves and apricot trees. This ancient site was excavated multiple times over the last century by colonial archaeologists funded by Zionist individuals and institutions. The first excavation of 1908 led by Harvard University took advantage of Sebastia locals including women, men, and children as cheap labor digging their own land for the sake of biblical archaeology. Each excavation extracted soil and artifacts from the ground, taking what they considered valuable to their home institutions and leaving pottery shards and rubble on the surface. Today, what’s left of the archaeological monuments is contested by the nearby settlement as well as the Israeli military. The Roman Forum is a battlefield, but the locals are incredibly resilient.	English	English
442	An Unusual Summer	2021	1:19:52	Kamal Aljafari	excerpt	https://vimeo.com/397390352		https://kamalaljafari.art/	A street corner in the Palestinian district of Ramla, in Israel. Neighbours going to work; children playing; mothers doing the shopping; at night, a man running past; a boy throwing a stone. Further away, a garden and a busy road. All this was recorded by the security camera Kamal Aljafari’s father installed in 2006, in the hope of catching the vandal who kept on damaging his car. After his father’s passing, Aljafari finds the footage. He uses it as the raw material for this idiosyncratically edited and manipulated impression with fitting musical accents, a touch of dry humour and succinct intertitles. Such as: “Abu Rizeq, what’s he doing so early in the morning?” Or: “A man is in love with my sister.” Sometimes, a child – the director’s niece – gives a commentary in voice-over. Finally, a text full of highly personal memories puts it all into context – also politically. The result is a sober, poetic homage to this neighbourhood, dismissively referred to by Israel as ‘the ghetto’. An artistic act of resistance against eradication.	English	English
443	Something from there	2020	7:00	Rana Nazzal Hamadeh	listing	https://watch.eventive.org/arabfilm/play/6532c8fc8713b800946c8bad/65398b4f6607c500333ab472		https://www.rananazzal.com	Something from there is a short film on the substance of our original lands. How does connection to land change after uprooting and in diaspora? How does matter embody memories and defy official histories? These are some of the open-ended questions asked in this reflection on the complicated implications of wanting a piece of land after displacement. Weaving between the voices of the artist’s parents, one a refugee and the other not, the film is personal, yet evokes a shared Palestinian experience. A fragmented story of the artist’s father’s exile from Palestine in 1948 is the guiding narrative. As he explains, he has not returned since—but for a single day in the sixties. Her mother, on the other hand, grew up in and has lived in Palestine for much of her life (her contribution to the film was recorded over Zoom while she sat on a patio in her hometown). Although her story is not the focus, it becomes clear that she is able to return and collect the “something from there” referred to. The “something” is never named, though it is the center of the narrative. Is it the soil? A piece of the land? The remains of our ancestors? The distinction between land and body is not made, and rather Something from there focuses on the power of memory and symbol to revive a denied homeland, defy official histories, and counter the settler colonial impetus to erase any assertion of Indigenous life.	Arabic, English	English
444	200 Meters	2020	1:36:07	Ameen Nayfeh	full film (accessible with subscription)	https://www.istikana.com/en/episodes/200-meters-1		erin@filmmovement.com	The film follows the story of the Palestinian father Mustafa who finds out that his son had an accident, but he has to find a way to cross to the Israeli side of the separation wall to get to him.
445	Under the Lemon Tree	2020	10:00	Noor Fawzi Al-Asswad	listing	https://watch.eventive.org/arabfilm/play/6532c8fc8713b800946c8bad/6532b5e803296f005e5db614			Under the shade of a lemon tree, a Palestinian woman, Khaldieh, prepares herself a humble breakfast, remembering her former life and lost homeland with an assemblage of simple elements. She unfolds the trauma of her sudden expulsion from the town she and all her ancestors grew up in. Holding onto a mere key to their home, she shares with us the pain of leaving her house for the last time, which she relates to her constant dreams of return.	Arabic	English
446	Isolation is Not Solitude	2020	4:07	Sarah Zeryab	full film	https://vimeo.com/678627919		sarahzeryab@gmail.com		n/a	n/a
447	Bethlehem 2001	2020	15:00	Ibahim Handal	excerpt	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m7WScmmEc0		http://mad-distribution.film/movies/movie1115289.php	While reflecting on the present, a young Palestinian recalls childhood memories of the military invasion and siege of Bethlehem. By trying to understand how his parents led him though those difficult times.	Arabic	English
448	Palestine Sunbird: A Stamp of Defiance	2020	46:36	Ayed Nabaa	full film	https://www.aljazeera.com/program/al-jazeera-world/2020/5/20/palestine-sunbird-a-stamp-of-defiance		Al Jazeera	In a creative act of dissent, a Palestinian artist makes a postage stamp symbolising freedom from Israeli occupation. Palestinian protest against Israeli occupation has taken many forms in the past seven decades – from all-out Arab-Israeli war, to the Intifadas and the Great March of Return. On a global level, Palestinian leaders continue to lobby for increased international recognition of the State of Palestine. Meanwhile, on a smaller scale, other forms of self-determination are emerging. In his own form of dissent, artist Khaled Jarrar designs postage and passport stamps for the State of Palestine, using the Palestine sunbird as the motif. His stamps have been officially recognised by the postal services in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway and the Czech Republic. Jarrar’s is a protest in an artistic context, one that began in his home town of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. There, he designed a Palestinian visa stamp saying ‘State of Palestine’ which he began offering to international visitors, including a Jewish American woman with dual US-Israeli nationality. He stamped both her passports with the Palestine sunbird, but when she later went through Israeli immigration, officials interrogated her and cancelled her passport. In this Al Jazeera World film, we watch as Jarrar achieves a major breakthrough when Germany’s Deutsche Post accepts his design. An initial print run of 4,000 postage stamps quickly sells out, and he soon sells more than 28,000 German Palestine sunbird stamps, while also stamping hundreds of passports of tourists on the streets of Berlin. This is one man’s story of a peaceful Palestinian protest – but with a difference. It is the journey of a charismatic artist’s creative yet provocative way of promoting the Palestinian cause across the world..	Arabic	English
449	Songs for the Love of Palestine	2020	47:11	various	full film	https://www.aljazeera.com/program/al-jazeera-world/2020/12/9/songs-for-the-love-of-palestine		Al Jazeera	Stories of four songs that reflect the Palestinian diaspora’s heritage and desire to return to a homeland left in 1948. This film tells the stories of four songs that date back to early and mid-20th century Palestine and Jordan. They reflect Palestinian cultural heritage and the diaspora’s strong desire to return to a homeland they were forced out of in 1948. They all contain snapshots of the time and place in which they were written – from the British Mandate to 1950s Jordan to Palestinians living abroad today.
450	Gaza Mon Amour	2020	1:27:00	Tarzan & Arab Nasser	excerpt	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWlV0hGdjOc			Gaza, today. Sixty-year-old fisherman Issa is secretly in love with Siham, a woman who works at the market with her daughter Leila. When he discovers an ancient phallic statue of Apollo in his fishing nets, Issa hides it, not knowing what to do with this mysterious and potent treasure. Yet deep inside, he feels that this discovery will change his life forever. Strangely, his confidence starts to grow and eventually he decides to approach Siham.	Arabic	English
451	Lethal Warning: The Killing of Luai Kahil and Amir a Nimrah	2020	9:01	Forensic Architecture	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrpgb73Mr8w		https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/lethal-warning-the-killing-of-luai-kahil-and-amir-a-nimrah	On the 14 July 2018, in Gaza City, in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, two Palestinian teenagers climbed onto the rooftop of the al-Katibah building. A short time later the pair, Luai Kahil and Amir al-Nimrah, were killed by a missile fired from an Israeli aircraft in a 'warning strike'. When the Israeli army shared videos of the attack, the strike that killed the teenagers had been removed. Why did the IDF manipulate their own footage? And what does the incident mean for the 'warning strike' policy?
452	Baladna	2021	9:00	Aya Hamdan	full film	https://www.10mils.com/film/baladna			A Palestinian sweet shop owner and Syrian baker have found a new home, a tiny "oil rich" island, the kingdom of Bahrain. But with the region's economic instability, will the shop owner keep the business afloat and help the baker bring his family over from Syria?	English, Arabic	English
453	By the Sea	2021	12:00	Wisam Al-Jafari	excerpt	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3UZYleiGL0		http://mad-distribution.film/movies/movie1115351.php	Nahid wants to celebrate her husband’s birthday while he is on the run from Israeli soldiers, however, due to the COVID-19 lockdown, it is really difficult for Nahid to get all the ingredients needed to bake the birthday cake. Will Nahid be able to celebrate her husband’s birthday with him in their secret hideout?	Arabic	English
454	Our songs were ready for all wars to come	2021	21:00	Noor Abed	full film (accessible with membership}	https://shashamovies.com/movies/our-songs-were-ready-for-all-wars-to-come/			The film explores the critical stance of ‘folklore’ as a source of knowledge and its possible connection to alternative social and representational models in Palestine. Images of women performing draw connections between latent stories of water wells and communal rituals associated with disappearance, mourning and death. The only narration in the film is a song, which is sung by Palestinian singer Maya Khaldi. Its lyrics are a collage of different folk tales.	Silent	Silent
455	Kofia: A Revolution Through Music	2021	29:51	Louis Brehony	full film	https://vimeo.com/780690852		letpalestinesing@gmail.com	The award-winning documentary film Kofia: A Revolution Through Music presents the story of Kofia band, formed by Nazareth-born Palestinian songwriter George Totari in Sweden. Forced out of Palestine in the wake of the 1967 Naksa, Totari brought together a group of radical Palestinian and Swedish musicians and activists, who gained a reputation in Europe and internationally for their building of a resistance culture. Bringing together archive material and first-time interviews with Kofia band members, Kofia: A Revolution Through Music is the soundtrack to Palestinian exile history, bound by creative struggle and solidarity.	English, Arabic	English
456	Little Palestine: Diary of a Seige	2021	1:29:22	Abdallah Al-Khatib	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8QCtUnKYDU		https://lightdox.com/little-palestine-diary-of-a-siege/	Daily life in the district of Yarmouk in Damascus, Syria. When the Syrian revolution broke out, the regime of Bashar Al-Assad besieged Yarmouk from 2013 onward. Eventually, Yarmouk was cut off from all outside help.	Arabic	English
457	My Palestine	2021	1:13:06	Lubna Dajani	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpKJbxy9xx4			A documentary about the war of 1948 and how it impacted the Palestinians living there at the time. This documentary commemorates the 70th anniversary of the Nakba and its impact on those who lived through it.	Arabic	English
458	My Jaffa	2021	1:35:37	Lubna Dajani	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf-dqjRiRR8			Jaffa, the city of oranges, was the home of many Arab families for centuries until it was all taken over in 1948. 'My Jaffa' is the story told by some if those families about the lives they led in Jaffa before 1948. They tell us what it was like to grow up by the sea and what it was like to be a part of the booming Jaffa orange industry. This is their personal journey from living in their homes, going to school then overnight having to run away and escape.	Arabic	English
459	My Haifa	2021	1:29:36	Lubna Dajani	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmExabqrigc			A documentary about life in Haifa before the war of 1948. We meet those who were born and grew up by its shores and running up its hills.	Arabi	English
460	My Ramleh	2021	1:29:07	Lubna Dajani	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67FEqCkPZu0			Ramleh is one of the largest and oldest cities of Palestine. This documentary is a collection of stories told by Palestinians about their childhood memories of life in Ramleh until 1948 when they were forced into exile as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.	Arabic	English
461	My Jerusalem	2021	42:41	Lubna Dajani	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jql5pLHvkxE			The war of 1948 changed the lives of the Arab inhabitants of Jerusalem forever. 'My Jerusalem' is the story of how they were living, what it was like to go to school there, what they played in the 'hara' or playgrounds. The story is told by the people who were born and grew up there before 1948. They then talk us through the war that forced them to leave their homes and lives forever.	Arabic	English
462	My Safad	2021	1:46:18	Lubna Dajani	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHGEYDzWKVI			A documentary that tells accounts of Palestinians recalling their childhood and life in Safad. The film shows their childhood, their school days, their neighborhoods, their social life that. He looks at the migration scene that changed their lives and forced them to leave their homes and abandon their land.	Arabic	English
463	Fedayee, Georges Abdallah's Fight	2021	1:21:26	Collectif Vacarme(s)	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C9RHqxB_UU		https://fedayin-lefilm.com/le-film/	Fedayin, the fight of Georges Abdallah traces the journey of a tireless Arab communist and fighter for Palestine. From the Palestinian refugee camps that shaped his conscience, to the international mobilization for his release, we are going to discover the man who became one of the oldest prisoners of Europe. We follow his involvement in the Palestinian resistance during the Lebanese War and then in Europe within the FARL (Lebanese Revolutionary Armed Factions). We will find him in France where he will be arrested in 1984 and convicted of complicity in the political executions of representatives of the United States and Israel. Beyond the judicial and political harassment of which Georges Abdallah is a victim, the film traces a life of resistance through a series of interviews in Lebanon, meeting his family, his relatives and former comrades but also in Europe with his lawyer, his supporters and people who worked with him. Now free for more than 20 years and despite confinement, Georges Abdallah continues an essential fight against imperialism and colonialism.	French, Arabic	English
464	Untold Revolution: Food Sovereignty in Palestine	2021	26.59	Heinrich Boll Foundation	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11ldhzAGfQI			The film documents the untold revolution of farmers working to achieve food sovereignty in Palestine, with a focus on a liberation ideology that seeks to de-link the Palestinian economy from the Occupation and from transnational monopolies.
465	No Blood	2021	15:00	Essa Grayeb	full film	https://vimeo.com/527927599		https://www.essagrayeb.com/	Through the act of stretching and spreading, the video montage re-edits the opening scene of the film "The Shepherd and the Women" the last film in which the Egyptian film actress "Suad Hosni" played before her body was found in London under an apartment building in 2001. The puddle of blood not found around the body appears as a stain on the side of the road, as her name falls off the screen forever in this disturbing scene.	n/a	n/a
466	The Eyes That Never See	2021	12:00	Dina Mimi	full film (accessible with membership}	https://shashamovies.com/movies/the-eyes-that-never-see/			The film narrates the death of a lonely Palestinian man. He ruminates on Israel’s excavation projects, in a settler colony which erases history to create a new one. The stories the man shares add to the ‘mythmaking’ which is integral to weaving narratives of occupation
467	The Stranger	2021	1:52:00	Ameer Fakher Eldin	excerpt	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi4Y00REaE8			In occupied Golan Heights, a desperate unlicensed doctor subverts his village's expectations when he accidentally encounters a wounded soldier from the war in Syria.	Arabic	English
468	Waiting for Gaza	2021	1:14:00	Guillaume Kozakiewiez	excerpt	https://vimeo.com/465719544			Five years after their Cannes selection, the twins Arab and Tarzan Abu Nasser prepare their second feature film. Exiled in Paris, they confine themselves in their 82ft2 studio where they recreate a mental Palestine. Waiting for Gaza follows them to the heart of their twinship, their history, of what both haunts them and pushes them to do cinema. Little by little, their life and work merge, as the line between reality and fiction fades away, blurring the tracks.	Arabic	English
469	Lovesick in the West Bank	2021	15:00	Said Zagha	excerpt	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krc2p62VLsc&t=2s		http://mad-distribution.film/movies/movie1115336.php	A Palestinian family hosts a young American tourist after a simple misunderstanding. But as chaos unfolds in their village, it doesn’t take too long for them to become part of the absurd mayhem that immediately ensues.	Arabic	English
470	Offing	2021	5:00	Oraib Toukan	excerpt	vimeo.com/673520918	MfFz4yem3Qwu5Gh	stillsalt@gmail.com	What narratives escape the frame of war? How do struggle and desire coexist in the frame of war, and how do those undergoing the unfathomable stress of war, in turn, consume media? The Offing was produced in the aftermath of the 2021 Israeli onslaught on Palestinians residing in the Israeli-besieged Gaza strip. It engages the personal stories of Gaza-based artist Salman Nawati, against footage shot by Toukan that focuses on the tender and the mundane as acts of life. But also, on the inadequacy of representing suffering.	Arabic	English
471	Via Dolorosa	2021	21:00	Oraib Toukan	excerpt	vimeo.com/673508804	52WPaTCEPvbrAFV	stillsalt@gmail.com	Footage shot by the late photographer and cinematographer, Hani Jawharieh, slowed-down, studied, and re-assembled with material from where it was found—piles of film reels discarded by former Soviet cultural centers in Amman, Jordan, accompanied with commentary by literary and film scholar Nadia Yaqub. Via Dolorosa (Latin for the Arabic 'Way of Suffering') is itself a processional route that Jawharieh filmed in his birth city of Jerusalem.	Arabic & English	English
472	Mediterranean Fever	2022	1:48:00	Maha Haj	excerpt	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzlBnWqxEJw			Waleed dreams of a writing career while suffering from depression. He develops a relationship with his neighbor - a small-time crook. While the scheme turns into an unexpected friendship, it leads them into a journey of dark encounters.
473	Paradiso, XXXI, 108	2022	21:50	Kamal Aljafari	excerpt	https://vimeo.com/723328865		aljafarifilms@gmail.com	The title, flashed on screen in multiple fonts and languages, prompts us to look up the reference: Dante wonders about the imprint of Christ on the Veil of Veronica – “was your semblance made like unto this?”. In this way, Kamal Aljafari declares the underlying theme of his disquieting, found-footage collage: do the heroic, suspenseful representations of armed warfare on screen, whether in documentary or fiction, bear any resemblance to the devastating, tragic, barbaric reality?
474	Boycott	2022	1:13:24	Julia Bacha	full film	https://justvision.org/boycott/watch		https://justvision.org/boycott/host-a-screening	Over the past six years, unbeknownst to most Americans, 36 states passed laws intending to silence boycotts and other nonviolent measures aimed at pressuring Israel on its human rights record. These dangerous bills remove the legal protection that has been awarded to boycotts for generations, granting governments the power to condition jobs on political viewpoints. As this wave of anti-boycott legislation has swept through the country, so has a counter-wave in defense of freedom of speech. Everyday Americans are challenging these laws for their constitutionality in a nation-wide battle likely to go all the way to the Supreme Court. With full access to the plaintiffs and in revelatory moments with elected officials, Boycott chronicles one of the most consequential First Amendment battles of the past few decades and investigates the question – how did we get here?	English
475	R 21 AKA Restoring Solidarity	2022	1:11:32	Mohanad Yaqubi	full film (accessible with vod rental)	https://vimeo.com/ondemand/r21/891404121		info@idiomsfilm.com	The growing struggle for Palestinian self-determination between 1960 and 1980 was supported by radical left-wing movements worldwide, also in Japan. This is illustrated by a collection of 16mm films by militant filmmakers from various countries, which were dubbed and screened in Japan. Their Japanese audiences felt oppressed by the US after World War II, and not only sympathized but also identified with the Palestinians. Stylistically, the films vary widely. They includes interviews with PLO leaders, documentary impressions of life in refugee camps, experimental films, and instructional films for tourism purposes. Mohanad Yaqubi has drawn on this material to create a film that might be seen as a conclusion or epilogue. He shows how two very different peoples can feel connected through images, and also raises questions. Where is the line between support and propaganda? And to what extent can a local struggle be translated internationally?	Arabic, English	English
476	Closeness to the Land	2022	7:00	Mona Gazala	full film	https://watch.eventive.org/arabfilm/play/6532c8fc8713b800946c8bad/6532be90d38e6600c78ae938		mona.gazala@gmail.com	In 2020, just as the pandemic was beginning, Gazala purchased land in western Ohio, on which sits a disused school building. This site allowed her to explore her complex relationship with “the land.” As the daughter of displaced indigenous Palestinians, she attempts to form a proxy bond with the earth, on ground that was stolen from the displaced indigenous Shawnee people. Closeness to the Land is video footage of hand-painted text signs that translate the word الأرض (ard) into six English words, displayed performatively in multiple locations to capture the now-invisible nature of indigenous culture in Ohio. These signs were installed on the old schoolhouse in early 2021.	English
477	Foragers	2022	1:04:00	Jumana Manna	excerpt	https://vimeo.com/695834271		http://www.jumanamanna.com/	Foragers depicts the dramas around the practice of foraging for wild edible plants in Palestine/Israel with wry humor and a meditative pace. Shot in the Golan Heights, the Galilee and Jerusalem, it employs fiction, documentary and archival footage to portray the impact of Israeli nature protection laws on these customs. The restrictions prohibit the collection of the artichoke-like ’akkoub and za’atar (thyme), and have resulted in fines and trials for hundreds caught collecting these native plants. For Palestinians, these laws constitute an ecological veil for legislation that further alienates them from their land while Israeli state representatives insist on their scientific expertise and duty to protect. Following the plants from the wild to the kitchen, from the chases between the foragers and the nature patrol, to courtroom defenses, Foragers captures the joy and knowledge embodied in these traditions alongside their resilience to the prohibitive law. By reframing the terms and constraints of preservation, the film raises questions around the politics of extinction, namely who determines what is made extinct and what gets to live on.	Arabic	English, French, Spanish	to enable English, Spanish, or French subtitles, download file and play in vlc with subtitle track set to 1 (English), 2 (Spanish, 3 (French)
478	A'lam	2022	25:00	Saleh Saadi	excerpt	https://vimeo.com/754904608			Nassim visits his best friend May, before she moves to the United States. They spend their last night together in Jerusalem. The events of the night bring to surface the complexity of their friendship.	Arabic	English
479	Alam	2022	1:40:00	Firas Khoury	excerpt	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De1OZ7PJ5Eg		http://mad-distribution.film/movies/movie1115355.php	In a Palestinian town, Tamer and his friends lead a typical high school student's life until the arrival of the beautiful Maysaa'. To please her, Tamer agrees to take part in a mysterious flag operation on the eve of Israel's Independence Day which is a mourning day for Palestinians.	Arabic	English
480	Notes on Displacement	2022	1:14:00	Khaled Jarrar	excerpt	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk1aIgpum6k			Refugees are often in the news, but what do we really know about their experiences? Notes on Displacement takes a deep dive into the fear and disorientation felt by a Syrian family on the grueling journey to a better life.	Arabic	English
481	Hamza: Chasing the Ghost Chasing Me	2022	18:00	Majd Kayyal	excerpt	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itpKkpEK0jY		http://mad-distribution.film/movies/movie1115384.php	Hamza is a middle-aged man who refuses to abandon a routine he has kept since his release from Israeli jail; every day, he goes into the woods to hunt a lion that the locals don’t believe exists.	Arabic	English
482	The Place that is Ours	2022	12:38	Zena Agha	full film	https://vimeo.com/650036380		https://zenaagha.com/film/the-place-that-is-ours/	A daughter returns to her father’s village in Palestine, which was destroyed in 1948. She journeys through unfamiliar landscapes and is confronted with the reality of her own exile.	English
483	Unforming Zionism	2022	22:00	Khaled Al-Bashir					Unforming Zionism is a multimedia visual essay centered on an investigation into the Haifa Governmental Hospital in Palestine, built-in 1938. Through counter-cartographic decoding of the material, economic and political networks complicit in the construction of the hospital, the essay offers a lens through which we can observe and understand colonial Zionist and British collusions that led to the dispossession of Palestinians. Yazan Ashqar will join Khalid to discuss Unforming Zionism and his approach to researching the intersections between architecture, design, and politics.	Arabic	English
484	Tomorrow's Freedom	2022	1:37:00	Georgia and Sophia Scott	excerpt	https://www.journeyman.tv/film/8582		Journeyman Pictures	TOMORROW’S FREEDOM, made over the course of 5 years, gains intimate access to the family of imprisoned Palestinian political leader Marwan Barghouthi. Through the Barghouthi family and a collage of in depth interviews from the people who know Marwan best, Tomorrow’s Freedom takes you on a brutally honest and transformative journey into the heart of the Israel Palestine conflict, speaking to Palestinians and Israelis.	Arabic	English
485	My Whole Heart is With You	2022	8:47	Essa Grayeb	full film	https://vimeo.com/680130830		https://www.essagrayeb.com/	"My Whole Heart Is With You" is an 8-minute and 49-second experimental video that features manipulated found footage from one of the most renowned and tragic Arab speeches of the 20th century: the resignation speech of the Egyptian President, Gamal Abdel Nasser, during the 1967 defeat. The work juxtaposes moments of suspense and pauses between sentences in the speech, revealing how these moments of transition and relaxation have been transformed into moments of tension, anxiety, and anticipation when placed consecutively.
486	The Shelling of Khudair Warehouse	2022	14:29	Forensic Architecture	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM9XBIXQrmM		info@forensicarchitecture.org	Marking the launch of Al-Haq’s Forensic Architecture Investigation Unit based in Ramallah and built in collaboration with Forensic Architecture, we examined the circumstances of the 15 May 2021 Israeli bombing of the Khudair Pharmaceuticals and Agricultural Tools Company in Beit Lahiya—the largest agricultural chemical warehouse in Gaza—as part of the environmental disaster imposed on Palestinians in the besieged enclave.
487	Palestine 87	2022	14:00	Bilal AlKhatib	excerpt	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn6bbr8Ilyk			During the First Intifada, Atef is chased by the Israeli army, finds him self trapped in an alleyway. An old lady hides him in the bath, he surprised that there is another person inside, who helps him not to be arrested.	Arabic	English
488	Mona Saudi: Beirut A Cultural Hub	2022	24:50	The Saeda & Ramzi Dalloul Art Foundation	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Godeu7qENpQ&t=196s			Mona Saudi – ‘An Artist’ (1945-2022) Mona Saudi was a Jordanian sculptor, born in 1945 in Amman. As a young woman, Mona dreamt of traveling to Paris to study art. So, she left home in secret at the age of seventeen and spent a year in Beirut, (1962-1963) frequenting poets and artists in a city culturally alive with artistic innovation in the heydays of the early 1960s. She befriended modernist poets and writers in Beirut such as Yousef El Khal, Onis El Hajj, and Adonis, in addition to renowned Lebanese artists like Paul Guiragossian, Alfred Basbous and Michel Basbous. Sculptor Michel Basbous took her under his wing, teaching the young artist all he knew about form in art. Also, Artist Halim Jurdak opened the doors for Saudi to Beirut's burgeoning cultural scene. Throughout her life career, Saudi collaborated with Palestinian artists Vladimir Tamari and Kamal Boullata, and both became lifelong friends. Saudi's first exhibition took place in 1963 at the Café de la Presse in Beirut on Hamra street. A few sales of her work were enough to buy her a ticket to sail to Paris where she joined the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. After Paris, Saudi left for Jordan in 1968, and in 1969 she returned to Lebanon. She lived between Lebanon and Jordan until she eventually settled in Lebanon in 1993 at the end of the Lebanese civil war. She kept moving between Beirut, Amman, and London where her daughter artist and designer Dia Batal lived. Saudi lived and worked in her remarkable house and workshop on Clemenceau street in Beirut; she passed away in 2022 at the age of Seventy-Seven.
489	Inside The Jenin Battalion	2023	7:29	Tierney Bonini	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSS51ZVhcA0		Al Jazeera	We gain rare access inside the Jenin Battalion, a new Palestinian armed group that’s formed to fight back against Israeli military raids in the occupied West Bank. Fighter Abu Aseel, not his real name, takes us through Jenin and shows us how the brigade is training and preparing to defend the city for the next time the Israeli army enters. Like many young men in the impoverished refugee camp, Abu Aseel feels he was compelled to take up arms, driven by witnessing decades of violence and oppression against his community. Israel’s new far-right government has accompanied a surge in violence with near-daily military raids across the occupied West Bank. 2023 is on track to becoming the deadliest year in decades for Palestinians.	Arabic, English	English
490	Lyd	2023	78:00	Rami Younis & Sarah Ema Friedland					A story of a city that once connected Palestine to the world — what it once was, what it is now, and what it could have become.
491	The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh	2023	40:00	Majdi Bannoura	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXy9SUDqUHk		Al Jazeera	The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, a 40-minute documentary by Al Jazeera English’s Fault Lines, is alternately heartbreaking and enraging. Heartbreaking because it portrays the heavy grief carried by Abu Akleh’s longtime colleagues with the Doha-based network who witnessed her shooting death at the hands of an Israeli sharpshooter in May. Enraging because it demonstrates the complicity of the Biden administration in Israel’s cover-up of her death, with State Department spokesperson Ned Price and the White House’s John Kirby refusing to acknowledge the evidence that Abu Akleh was deliberately killed. No second is wasted in this short documentary that begins with clips of Abu Akleh’s field reportage in the occupied West Bank, exposing the reality of life for Palestinians living under Israel’s brutal military occupation. A significant portion of the documentary recounts the minutes before and after Abu Akleh was struck by a single bullet to her head. Abu Akleh’s colleagues who survived the attack – producer Ali Samoudi was moderately injured – describe a typical morning of work, albeit in the abnormal context of Israel’s military occupation. They were in Jenin to cover an Israeli raid. The journalists put on protective gear identifying themselves as members of the press. Once they established that there were no confrontations between the soldiers and Palestinians, and that the situation was calm, they started walking slowly towards a group of Israeli military vehicles. Seconds later, they came under fire from the direction of the Israeli position. Majdi Bannoura, who had filmed with Abu Akleh frequently since they were both hired by Al Jazeera in 1997, began recording. His footage shows Abu Akleh hiding behind a tree and captures her final words: “Ali has been wounded,” referring to her colleague Ali Samoudi who was shot in the shoulder. The footage then shows her lying motionless on the ground as a man frantically shouts her name and calls for an ambulance. Anton Abu Akleh recounts receiving a news alert stating that his sister was injured while reporting in Jenin. He called and texted her to see if she was ok but got no answer. He learned of her death like the rest of the world when it was reported as breaking news on Al Jazeera. ‘They feared her’ It wouldn’t be the only terrible shock the family had to endure. Days later, mourners carrying Abu Akleh’s casket were brutally attacked by Israeli police who wanted to break the massive display of collective solidarity and grief by Palestinians in Jerusalem’s streets. “It was clear that they feared her,” Lina Abu Akleh, Shireen’s niece, explains. “They feared the crowd, they feared the impact she’s had and I don’t think they anticipated this kind of reaction from the Palestinians.” While Israeli police were brutalizing Palestinians in the streets, its propagandists were busy cooking up lies and spin to establish a narrative in its favor. Hagai El-Ad, the director of the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem, reflects on Israel’s initial claim, immediately debunked by his organization, that Abu Akleh was killed by Palestinians. It doesn’t matter if Israel’s propaganda and lies are of high or low quality. The point is to plant doubt about the credibility of Palestinian claims, he says. The scrutiny on Abu Akleh’s killing was atypical. The ongoing media probes, alongside the vocal demands for accountability made by Abu Akleh’s family, and her status as a US citizen, kept her case on the radar. The unusual attention also forced Israel to change its narrative as investigations brought additional facts to light. “You can just imagine how many other cases there are where there wasn’t that much international attention, there wasn’t footage, there weren’t witnesses,” El-Ad says. The most comprehensive investigation to date is one undertaken by the London-based research group Forensic Architecture and Al-Haq, a Palestinian human rights group based in Ramallah. It is included in a submission made by Al-Jazeera to the International Criminal Court requesting an probe into Abu Akleh’s killing. Their reconstruction determined that the journalists would have been clearly identifiable as such by the Israeli soldiers who fired at them. It also found that the shots fired by the Israeli sharpshooter “were kill shots,” a researcher with Al-Haq explains. “So the marksman was determined and deliberately targeting the journalists in that incident.” US cover-up It’s an unequivocal conclusion contrasting starkly with that of the US Security Coordinator, which stated that Abu Akleh was likely killed by an Israeli soldier, though not intentionally, without explaining how it reached that determination. The US Security Coordinator’s report – which relies on Israel’s self-investigation and for which no key witnesses were interviewed – has been used by the Biden administration as a shield to deflect calls for real accountability. “It’s not just not adequate, it’s outrageous,” El-Ad says about the Biden administration’s deference to Israel. The absence of accountability, and the US government’s implicit endorsement of Abu Akleh’s killing, has had a chilling effect on Palestinian journalists. Meanwhile, more and more Palestinians are killed by the Israeli military, which receives a minimum of $3.8 billion in assistance from the US each year. “Every day since Shireen died we are hearing about somebody getting killed, shot by the Israelis, for no reason, no justification given, no accountability,” Anton Abu Akleh says. The need to expose this unjust reality was the driving force behind Abu Akleh’s work. And it’s why she was targeted, her colleagues say. As Ali Samoudi makes clear: “We pose a danger to them because we expose them.” Maureen Clare Murphy is senior editor of The Electronic Intifada.	English, Arbaic	English
492	Resistance Climbing	2023	37:00	Andrew Bisharat	full film	https://watch.reelrocktour.com/videos/rr17-resistanceclimbing		https://reelrocktour.com/pages/reel-rock-17	In the strife-torn hills of Palestine, a diverse crew of Bedouins, activists and urban professionals embraces climbing as a much-needed respite from the burdens of the Israeli occupation. American writer & climber Andrew Bisharat visits the West Bank to explore his own roots and the power of climbing to transform lives.	English, Arabic	English
493	Like An Event In A Dream Dreamt By Another - Rehearsal	2023	14:20	Firas Shehadeh	excerpt	https://www.firasshehadeh.com/like-an-event-in-a-dream-dreamt-by-another-rehearsal/			In RPGs (role-playing game), one could say that real life can be rehearsed in a superstitious manner, with supernatural beings and worlds. Since the emergence of computer processing power and video games, the third world was a source for worldbuilding and space to apply game operations. Those games are not isolated from the socio-cultural and political environment that they are developed in. On the other hand, third-world gamers, developers, streamers, and hackers managed to modify those games and apply their own hyperreality in order to rehearse their world. This project explores how Palestinian players, GTA mods, and servers are simulating real life under colonial rule. Like An Event In A Dream Dreamt By Another - Rehearsal examines Los Santos as a corollary to Palestine.	Arabic	English
494	Three Promises	2023	1:01:00	Yousef Srouji	excerpt	https://mubi.com/en/films/three-promises/trailer		https://threepromisesfilm.com/	Three Promises is the story of a mother and her camera, of a son and his suppressed memories, and of an entire country. At the start of the 2000s, while the Israeli army is retaliating against the second intifada in the West Bank, Suha films her daily family life, punctuated by frequent trips underground and overwhelmed by the anguish of her two young children. At every moment of intense danger, she promises God that she will leave if they survive. In 2017, her son, the director of this film, discovers this archive and reconnects with this suppressed past, wondering with his mother what drove her to record a daily life of suffering, a stolen childhood, and why she delayed fleeing, paralyzed by the hope for change and burdened by the impossible choice between physical safety and emotional upheaval. While on the surface there emerges the heartrending portrait of everyday life in times of war, it is the staggering beauty of a mother’s love that is revealed between the lines. Blending the voice of the present with impressive family footage, Yousef Srouji completes the story begun by Suha, thus averting the act of forgetting, both personal and collective.	Arabic	English
495	Bye Bye Tiberias	2023	1:22:00	Lina Soualem	excerpt	https://vimeo.com/855820575			Years after leaving her Palestinian village to pursue an acting career in France, Hiam Abbass returns home with her daughter, in this intimate documentary about four generations of women and their shared legacy of separation.	Arabic	English
496	A House in Jerusalem	2023	1:04:00	Muayad Alayan	excerpt	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjmrpI7GBtQ		http://mad-distribution.film/movies/movie1115366.php	Young Rebecca is forced to move with her father from the UK to Jerusalem in the hopes that a new beginning can help her heal from her mother’s sudden death. Soon after settling into an old house in a neighborhood known as the Valley of the Ghosts, a series of mysterious events occur that Rebecca takes the blame for. Diving deep into the mystery of the house and the mystical city of Jerusalem, Rebecca sets out on an enigmatic journey to discover what hides in the shadows of the house.	Arabic	English
497	We No Longer Prefer Mountains	2023	1:36:00	Inas Halabi	excerpt	https://halabinas.com/WE-NO-LONGER-PREFER-MOUNTAINS			The film We No Longer Prefer Mountains (2023) begins with an ascent of Mount Carmel upon which the Druze towns of Dalyet el Carmel and Isfiya are located, drawing the viewer into a world of geographic isolation and a locale shaped by coercion and control. Weaving together intimate engagements with members of the community in shared domestic spaces and outdoor environments, the film explores how the inner politics of the Druze have been reconfigured and reshaped as a result of the establishment of Israel in 1948; whilst opening up possibilities for imagining alternative futures.	Arabic	English
498	Néantir	2023-24	12:22	yann beauvais	full film	https://vimeo.com/904764858		rentals@lightcone.org	Since October 7, 2023, the Palestinians have suffered at the hands of a people who claim to be chosen, and who have granted themselves the right to take revenge in the name of self-defense, i.e. to massacre, bombard, displace, thirst and starve the Palestinian people. This practice of ethnic cleansing, assumes the character of a genocide, which does not speak its name.	English, Arabic	Engllish
499	If I must die	2023	1:57	Dominique Dubosc	full film	https://vimeo.com/895376108		contact@dominiquedubosc.com	Gaza December 7, 2023 - “As a hand rises on the brink of death and shipwreck…”, poet Reefat Alareer appeals one last time to love.
500	Shireen Abu Akleh: The Extrajudicial Killing of a Journalist	2023	10:41	Forensic Architecture	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE7E0eLJPqU		info@forensicarchitecture.org	An investigation by Al-Haq's Forensic Architecture Investigation Unit and Forensic Architecture brings to light new evidence related to the circumstances of prominent Palestinian Al-Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh’s killing, which reveals the report on the incident published by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) to be false and deliberately misleading. Using previously unseen footage and advanced spatial and audio analysis, our investigation reveals, for the first time, that Shireen and her colleagues were explicitly targeted, despite being identifiable as members of the press; that the attack was unprovoked, there having been no shots other than the IOF’s fired at the time and no armed individuals in the vicinity of the journalists; and that Shireen was prevented from receiving medical attention after being shot.
501	Executions and Mass Graves in Tantura	2023	17:02	Forensic Architecture	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rteB5T4hwVY		info@forensicarchitecture.org	Commissioned by Adalah Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, this investigation reveals new evidence about massacres conducted in the Palestinian village of Tantura by Israeli forces after its occupation on 22-23 May 1948 and subsequent depopulation. Launched on the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, it brings together testimonies and photographic evidence to locate several mass graves in which the victims were buried—including one previously unidentified.
502	qarib minnk	2023	13:22	Milena Galizzi	full film	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFH5IYp9WI4&t=310s		(filmmaker has stated that the film may be screened freely without need to clear permission, but if needed, they can be contacted at the following address) milena.galizzi1998@gmail.com		Arabic	English
503	The Moon is a Sun Returning as a Ghost	2023	10:00	Noor Abuarafeh	full film	https://drive.google.com/file/d/17_R46Y7tkuE8GOotB0r8ocxnwg6J6dGF/view?usp=sharing			The video is based on a research that follows cases of seventeen exhibitions by Palestinian artists‭, ‬each contained different artworks and exhibited in different countries around the world‭, ‬the 17‭ ‬exhibitions are considered missing today due to the challenges caused by the Israeli government associated with returning the artworks to Palestine‭. The Moon is a Sun Returning as a Ghost follows one of these cases‭, ‬an exhibition that took place in 2005‭ ‬in the swiss town of Martigny‭, ‬the works could not be returned to the artists and were instead moved from a country to another and from one storage facility to another‭. The video questions how the immateriality of missing objects affects our memory of them‭, especially in a colonized context where the materiality of the object is constantly in danger‭ ‬of being manipulated, boomed or stolen . ‬The work shows that by poetically liberating historiography from its objecthood‭, ‬more narratives can emerge that extend beyond the materiality of the object in which it is transmitted orally‭. ‬
504	Focus Puller	2023	9:30	Oraib Toukan	excerpt	vimeo.com/861168084	Uh8k5YRBJnrUCFm	stillsalt@gmail.com	Images of artists at work at an Artists’ Colony settled in 1953 in the Palestinian village of Ein Houd, Haifa, accompanied by the voice of Gaza-based photographer Rehaf Al Batniji reading stories from Sharif Kanaana and Basam Al Kabeh’s 1989 ethnographic monograph: Ein Houd. Ein Hod has been widely represented in art and anthropology precisely because it is one of the only Palestinian villages emptied and depopulated but exceptionally not destroyed during the creation of the state of Israel. On the contrary, some five years after its some 700-residents (mostly from the Abu al-Hayja family) were forcibly expelled in 1948, a former Zurich-based Dadaist artist, Marcel Janco advocated that artists settle and renovate it to a utopian artist village. This was to counter the tide of concrete modernism, but ran alongside it in transforming the entire terrain, its history, people, architecture, flora and fauna, into an Israeli one.	Arabic
505	Capital	2023	17:00	Basma Alsharif	excerpt	https://vimeo.com/829599119			"What’s the connection between what’s known as the Italian “white telephone” films of the late 1930s and the construction of new towns in Egypt? To answer this, Basma al-Sharif composes a satirical movie that combines the grotesque with a formal sophistication, building bridges between various geographies and political histories. The director boldly plays around with these films, which were characterised by frivolous sentimentality and whose light-hearted plots revolved around the telephone, a symbol of the bourgeoisie at the time. She retains nothing but the essential elements, ironically subverting them: a listless actress slumped in front of a television set – a concession to modern life – and a white telephone. No melodrama here, but behind the screen and on the other end of the phone, an interview with a cynical Egyptian presidential candidate and the (exhilarating) proposals of a property developer. Set against this voice of authority, the censured words of a ventriloquist, played by filmmaker Diego Marcon, challenge the limitations of this speech. Basma al-Sharif combines cinematic minimalism with the artificiality of digital possibilities, using commercials for luxury residential complexes, a consumerist dream denounced by their hallucinatory distortion. Although the Capital that gives the film its title refers to the colossal project of a “new Egyptian capital” planned since the 1970s near Cairo, it also, of course, refers to the global capitalism involved here, the capitalism that’s invading the South, the legacy of colonialism, from which the director herself originates. The same South for which Nino Ferrer nostalgically foresaw a tragic destiny, and which the Palestinian artist now depicts with acerbic and despairing humour." - Louise Martin Papasian
506	Aida Returns	2023	1:16:00	Carol Mansour	excerpt	https://vimeo.com/777005171		https://aidareturns.com/	This is a sometimes painful, sometimes humorous, often absurd story of multiple journeys: the journey of loss as the director’s mother Aida struggled with Alzheimer’s disease finding solace in her repeated “returning” to the Yafa of her youth; the journey of losing a parent; and the ultimate return journey to Yafa where Aida would finally find rest. After her mother’s passing, director Carol Mansour, met friends in Beirut willing to carry Aida back with them to Palestine. The film accompanies Carol as she engineers a way to return her mother aided by an unlikely set of friends and strangers coming together to facilitate what should have been a simple journey. This journey is at the same time very private and yet universal. It is a tribute to the lost past of the director’s family, an attempt to restore part of both an individual and a collective memory, and a poetic nod and affirmation to all those exiled Palestinians forbidden from returning to their hometowns, even after death.
507	we would be freer	2023	8:40	Rana Nazzal Hamadeh	full film	https://vimeo.com/855459663	sumac	https://www.rananazzal.com	We would be freer is a short film reflecting on the relationship between native plants and peoples. Through story, the film takes a close look at the sumac plant as a medicine, a powdered spice, a dye, and more. Known for its zesty taste and bright colour, different varieties of sumac are found around the world. In particular, staghorn sumac is native to parts of Turtle Island and tanner’s sumac to the eastern Mediterranean. Weaving between the voices of two women, one from the Mohawk community of Kahnawá:ke and the other an internally displaced refugee in Ramallah, we would be freer invites you to contemplate the role of the sumac plant in two occupied lands that lie far apart. Mimicking the progression of the plant’s flowers from yellow to green to red, the short film is a cyclical reflection on connection to land, sustainability, and wild plants.	Arabic & English	English
508	A Filmmaker’s Notebook in the Occupied Territories	2024	1:10:40	Dominique Dubosc				contact@dominiquedubosc.com	This hour-and-ten-minute film brings together ten short stories and eighteen sketches filmed in the Occupied Territories during the Second Intifada.	Arabic	English
509	Mahdi Amel in Gaza	2024	14:02	Mary Jirmanus Saba	full film	https://vimeo.com/890513665/87d8e6972b		mary.jirmanus@gmail.com	A montage of Palestinian journalists reporting from the current genocide with past and present images of Gaza, along with the words of Lebanese philosopher and militant Mehdi Amel
510	A Fidai Film الفلم عمل فدائي	2024	78:00	Kamal Aljafari	excerpt	https://vimeo.com/929940746		aljafarifilms@gmail.com	In the summer of 1982, the Israeli army invaded Beirut. During this time, it raided the Palestinian Research Center and looted its entire archive. The archive contained historical documents of Palestine, including a collection of still and moving images. Taking this as a premise, 'A Fidai Film' aims to create a counter-narrative to this loss, presenting a form of cinematic sabotage that seeks to reclaim and restore the looted memories of Palestinian history. It’s a poignant exploration of identity, memory, and resistance, told through a unique blend of documentary and experimental filmmaking techniques.	Arabic	English
511	To a Land Unknown	2024	1:45:00	Mahdi Fleifel	excerpt	https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22023622/			A Palestinian refugee living on the fringes of society in Athens gets ripped off by a smuggler and sets out to seek revenge.
512	Passing Dreams	2024		Rashid Mashrawi				info@coorigines.fr	Sami, 12, pursues an elusive carrier pigeon across Palestine, which he assumes has returned to its homeland. What quest is really behind the invisible pigeon?
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515	texts	year	type	author		link
516	cinema related
517	Jusqu’à la victoire	1970	Article	Jean-Luc Godard		https://www.diagonalthoughts.com/?p=1728
518	The Cinema and Revolution, PFLP Brochure (EN/FR)	around 1975	Ephemera	PFLP		https://www.umam-dr.org/Uploads/2020-06/BlogPDF4.pdf
519	Toward A Revolutionary Arab Cinema	1974	Article	Guy Hennebelle, Tahar Cheriaa, Serge La Piron, Mustafa Abu Ali, Hassan Abu Ghanimeh, and others		https://drive.google.com/file/d/10_9Vje1J26aD5Y82kE0baZ0QPqyGhLES/view?usp=sharing
520	"Here and Elsewhere"	1962-81	Book Chapter	Serge Daney		https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FsCVBslkpUCoZeDOqUjParVo1y6Ssl9l/
521	The Image of the Palestinian Woman	1977	Essay	Heiny Srour		https://sabzian.be/text/the-image-of-the-palestinian-woman
522	A Cinema of Unveiling, A Cinema of Awareness: An Interview with Tewfik Saleh	1977	Interview	Guy Hennebelle and Khemaïs Khayati		https://sabzian.be/text/a-cinema-of-unveiling-a-cinema-of-awareness
523	Dreams of a Nation: On Palestinian Cinema	2006	Book	ed. by Hamid Dabashi		https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c71cAOIxE8pyfc5kKNZGHv2VLWLDBWiZ/		.
524	Palestinian Cinema, Landscape, Trauma and Memory	2008	Book	Nurith Gertz and George Khleifi		https://drive.google.com/file/d/16mPIXQevqowNiA-6jLLBYEwPMUKUe_FK/
525	Palestinian Video Art: Constellation of the Moving Image	2013	Edited Book	ed. Bashar Makhoul		https://search.worldcat.org/title/palestinian-video-art-constellation-of-the-moving-image/oclc/865041594
526	On What Was, and What Remains: Palestinian Cinema and the Film Archive	2013	Article	Hend Alawadhi		https://iafor.org/archives/journals/iafor-journal-of-media-communication-and-film/10.22492.ijmcf.1.1.02.pdf
527	Struggling to Be Seen: The Travails of Palestinian Cinema	2014	Book	Anandi Rammurthy and Paul Kelemen		https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_T-j8M1EiYXeiMV68AclFTPVCWM6pl21/
528	The Kanafani Effect: Resistance and Counter-Narration in the Films of Michel Khleifi and Elia Suleiman	2014	Article	Refqa Abu-Remaileh		https://doi.org/10.1163/18739865-00702006
529	Cinema as the Space to Transgress Palestine’s Territorial Trap	2014	Article	Helga Tawil-Souri		https://doi.org/10.1163/18739865-00702005.
530	A Militant Cinema	2014	Interview	Mohanad Yaqubi & Sheyma Buali		https://www.ibraaz.org/interviews/16
531	Remembering My Friend, Hani Jawhariyyeh	2016	Article	Vladimir Tamari		https://www.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/jq-articles/remembering__JQ_67_0.pdf
532	The Dream: A Diary of a Film	2016	Book	Mohammad Malas		https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv2ks70mb
533	Seized in Beirut: The Plundered Archives of the Palestinian Cinema Institution and Cultural Arts Section	2017	Article	Rona Sela		https://cdn-cms.f-static.com/uploads/2433480/normal_5d77407f97bf4.pdf
534	Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution	2018	Book	Nadia G. Yaqub		https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XBANIfqRka5h0WoxIdLZ3Rcb7_gfjw2M/
535	The Cinema of Muhammad Malas	2018	Book	Samirah Alkassim & Nezar Andary		https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fV6g2FiEHmBN2y0v7HGPRuYTw4c69GEm/view?usp=drive_link
536	Arab Film and Video Manifestos	2018	Book	Kay Dickinson		https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eyNtrKOFsNZX8Lw17JmxGtEUKifAmmU2/view?usp=drive_link
537	Michel Khleifi: Fertile Memory	2019	Edited Book	Courtisane Festival		https://issuu.com/courtisanefestival/docs/khleifi-issuu
538	Mustafa Abu Ali: Revolutionary Cinema ... Popular Cinema	2019	Booklet	Khadijeh Habashneh		https://khabashneh.files.wordpress.com/2021/10/d985d8add8aad988d989-d983d8aad98ad8a8-d985d8b5d8b7d981d989-.pdf		arabic
539	Documenting the Storied Narrative of Gaza	2019	Film review	Samirah Alkassim		https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/review-of-middle-east-studies/article/documenting-the-storied-narrative-of-gaza/390B8A448AE933908B91074E1FFA6AF9/share/b3d6f420071724a5761e08b30d5006dfda886b1e
540	Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema, 2nd ed.	2020	Edited Book	ed. by Terri Ginsberg & Chris Lippard		https://drive.google.com/file/d/10u9TFxAn1Z0NOV5QgylugUOpdeJ9GvAe/view?usp=drive_link
541	The Films of Arab Loutfi and Heiny Srour	2022	Book	Terri Ginsberg		FilmsOfArabLoutfiAndHeinySrour.pdf
542	The Cinema of the Palestinian Revolution	2020	Article	Celluloid Liberation Front		https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/features/cinema-palestinian-revolution
543	From Palestine to the World, the Militant Film of the PLO	2020	Article	Kaleem Hawa		https://www.nybooks.com/online/2020/10/17/from-palestine-to-the-world-the-militant-film-of-the-plo/
544	Love and Resistance in the Films of Mai Masri	2020	Book	Victoria Brittain		https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ipV9bZ49vOq_zFmStqfuY4LEJLpXzPZN/view?usp=drive_link
545	A Spectral Sumud: Kamal Al Jafari's Port of Memory	2020	Book Chapter	Mezna Qato & Sadia Shirazi		https://api.repository.cam.ac.uk/server/api/core/bitstreams/37672e45-68f8-4bdf-9add-9ffb920d1dbe/content
546	The Films of Arab Loutfi and Heiny Srour	2021	Book	Terri Ginsberg		https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d2bwQ4C1ed36Eo-xPvUI1eMMFP7s3B7G/view?usp=drive_link
547	I Thought I Was Seeing Palestinians: On Kamal Aljafari	2022	Article	Kaleem Hawa		https://cinema-scope.com/features/i-thought-i-was-seeing-palestinians-on-kamal-aljafari/
548	Ici et Ailleurs: The Backstory	2022	Article	Rula Shahwan		https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2022/forms-that-think-jean-luc-godard/ici-et-ailleurs-the-backstory/
549	Dissonant Narratives: Palestinian Youth Remake Archival Films	2022	Article	Mahasen Nasser-Eldin		https://www.blackstarfest.org/seen/read/issue004/palestinian-youth-archival-film-monica-mauer/
550	ReFocus: The Films of Jocelyne Saab	2022	Edited Book	Mathilde Rouxel & Stefanie Van de Peer		https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DWnsOQcEsR8aghXnep6hzw8xhIgKUVr4/
551	Knights of Cinema: The Story of the Palestine Film Unit	2023	Book	Khadijeh Habashneh		https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s_udpXwf0a6_FtHqL2JHJsZxXtoxrSD9/view?usp=drivesdk
552	Gaza on Screen	2023	Edited Book	ed. Nadia G. Yaqub		https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gGRr6sULW3yJShJK-iePFEK_iSlVwmKT/view?usp=sharing
553	An Archive of Revolution Retained in a Filmmaker’s Memory: Masao Adachi and the Palestinian Revolution	2023	Book Chapter	Dima Saqfalhait		https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jMqWzG_Ftf8P-lIiDOYZUnfMFv6EKLS7/
554	Narrating Looted and Living Palestinian Archives: Reparative Fabulation in Azza El-Hassan’s Kings and Extras	2023	Article	Kareem Estefan		https://drive.google.com/file/d/1urZbW3aRgBD8kmCVGBHzf4ZVrLKt-1Tu/
555	Working with Visual Remains	2023	Article	Azza El-Hassan		https://worldrecordsjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/WR-08-13.pdf
556	Ode to Gaza	2024	Film review	Samirah Alkassim		https://thisweekinpalestine.com/ode-to-gaza/
557	The Revolutionary Subject: Masao Adachi and Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War	2024	Article	Seth Wilder		https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gyWAHcQyyP4CHTm3zsrTLy_eeqZ8fRKj/view?usp=sharing
558	Cinema of Palestinian Return	2024	Article	Olivia Crough		https://www.screenslate.com/articles/cinema-palestinian-return
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560	Palestine related
561	My People Shall Live: The Autobiography of a Revolutionary	1971	Book	Leila Khaled		https://archive.org/details/MyPeopleShallLive
562	The 1936–39 Revolt in Palestine	1972	Book	Ghassan Kanafani		https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ihtAx--c9-s5NzumCpKjkVInaXtR92_f/
563	Kanafani: Symbol of Palestine	1975	Book	George S. Hajjar		https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U2XrKAgUvsVs5-gSin6-1DlowOq41Jhm/view
564	Understanding Zionism	1988	Book	George Habash		https://archive.org/details/understanding-zionism
565	Palestine's Children: Returning to Haifa & other stories	2000	Book	Ghassan Kanafani		https://archive.org/details/palestineschildr00kana
566	The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine	2007	Book	Ilan Pappé		https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1XDlVB65ojQi20iRE02FHsFqRO_YNQJ9M
567	Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation	2007	Book	Eyal Weizman		https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1h8eFqpW2u0mm9cfvHlsRLNNN3IblViyV
568	A Palestine Reading List: Words Without Borders	2023	online journal	various authors		https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/collection/a-palestine-reading-list/?fbclid=IwAR2NHKsVm-JWg99fNzotGTJXJJU2mz7HIwZVHZfaeg9NrXeMkvsuLhan1n0
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573	Subversive Film: Resounding Archives	2021		Since 2009, Subversive Film recorded conversations and interviews with filmmakers, archivists, freedom fighters and activists about their work and participation in the liberation struggle for Palestine during the 1968-82 period. The interviews, conducted in cafes, offices, homes and work studios, recount a history of the formation of a collective narrative and memory of colonised people through cinema and its political, ideological and logistical conditions that surrounded it. In a blunt gesture Resounding Archives assumes the format of documentation, (archival formation even), by (re)listening to conversations that remember and reflect on political film practices, a cinematic film production about and within the Palestiniain struggle, and the vast global solidarity network within which such practices operated. The selection of interviews presented here tries to draw an image, through stories and sounds, of a film practice within a revolution, voices are coming from Nils Vest, Monica Maurer, Khadija Habashneh, Serge Le Péron, Masao Adachi, Alain Bernstein, Ivan Strasburg, Issam Nassar, Akram Zaatari, Lokman Slim and Sten Walegren		https://kiosk.art/resounding-archives
574	Kerning Cultures:The Missing Archives	2021		In 1968, a trio of Palestinian filmmakers began making films about life under Israeli occupation. Almost 15 years and over 90 films later, their film unit became a dominant force in the Arab film industry. But in 1982, their film reels disappeared. Overnight, decades of footage and thousands of hours of archives were gone. Today on Kerning Cultures, the search for the Palestinian Film Unit’s lost archives. This episode originally aired in August 2020 and was produced by Zeina Dowidar, with editorial support from Alex Atack, Nadeen Shaker, Tamara Rasamny, Dana Ballout, and Hebah Fisher. Fact-checking by Zeina Dowidar. Sound design and mixing by Mohamad Khreizat. Kerning Cultures is a Kerning Cultures Network production.		https://kerningcultures.com/the-missing-archives/
575	The Film Comment Podcast: At Home, Palestinian Cinema Edition	2021		In an essay on the militant films of the Palestine Film Unit for The New York Review of Books, critic Kaleem Hawa writes that “Palestinian cinema has always been saddled with the psychic weight of colonization . . . Film offers liberatory possibilities, then: with the projection of moving images onto a screen, a people can imagine something different, something other.” This week on the podcast, FC editors Devika Girish and Clinton Krute sat down with Kaleem (who’s also a Film Comment contributor) to discuss our recent home-viewing—which, as it turned out, included a lot of Palestinian cinema. From the agitprop of Mustafa Abu Ali’s 1974 film They Do Not Exist, to the diasporic longing of Basma Alsharif’s Home Movies Gaza (2013), to the biting satire and media criticism of Elia Suleiman, the conversation covered a lot of fascinating ground.		https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/the-film-comment-podcast-at-home-palestinian-cinema-edition/
576	Palestine Seminar #3 : Jumana Manna	2024		Duke Professor France Hasso interviews visual artist and filmmaker Jumana Manna for the third episode of her Palestine Seminar. Professor Hasso will be convening a conference titled, "Concrete Imaginings: Building a Liberated Palestine" on Feb 28th, 2024. It will be livestreamed and open access. Live stream link Detailed schedule available here From the syllabus: "My initial goal was to give a platform to Palestinian artists and intellectuals working in Palestine but with limited opportunities to work or share their work outside of a permanent crisis mode produced by the myriad forms of violence attached to Israeli colonization. This violence regularly reaches university campuses and touches every dimension of life. The syllabus is idiosyncratic in the sense that it represents my intellectual and pedagogical interests for this seminar. I encourage people to use it as an educational resource and to take parts for their own teaching."		https://soundcloud.com/user-968223567/palestine-seminar-3-jumana
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580	The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017	2020		Rashid Khalidi's book in audiobook form		https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-4-PivtiF0
581	The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine	2017		Ilan Pappé's book in audiobook form		https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Ethnic-Cleansing-of-Palestine-Audiobook/B077KDZRCX
582	Edward Said \| Rachel Corrie, Solidarity, and Palestine (2003)	2003		Recorded in Washington, D.C. on June 15, 2003		https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCeaLFdko0c
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587	Cinema, Palestine and Politics	2011	conversation	A panel discussion organized on Saturday, March 26, 201, in the context of 'Eye On Palestine'. Speakers: Eyal Sivan, Mohammed Alatar, Serge Le Péron, Moderator: Ruddy Doom		https://vimeo.com/22982257	English
588	Splicing the Militant Cinema, Subversive Film (Mohanad Yaqubi & Reem Shilleh)	2014	presentation	A presentation by Mohanad Yaqubi & Reem Shilleh as part of The Fire Next Time, a two-day programme of interventions, screenings and an exhibition dealing with the militant image and its resonances in collaboration with Courtisane Festival.		https://vimeo.com/100089870	English
589	Plan B - Coproducing Palestinian Narratives	2020	conversation	Coproducing Palestinian Narratives 25 June 2020 (3h30 -4h30) Would it be possible to think of co production without sovereignty? And what is the legal environment required to do such a complicated operation? Are there other ways? And is collaboration restrained to co production treaties? These questions and more will be discussed with 2 legendary film producers with more than 25 years of extensive experiences in International co-production including with Palestine. Mohanad Yaqubi (Moderator) A filmmaker, producer, and one of the founders of the Ramallah-based production house, Idioms Film. Yaqubi is also one of the founders of the research and curatorial collective Subversive Films that focuses on militant film practices, and most recently, a resident researcher at KASK, School of the Arts in Gent. Ina Fichman For twenty-five years, Ina has been producing award-winning documentary and fiction films for television and theatrical release, as well as digital projects. In 2014, Ina completed production on the animated documentary feature THE WANTED 18 directed by newcomer Amer Shomali and Paul Cowan and Sturla Gunnarsson’s MONSOON, both of which had their world premieres at TIFF and are still doing the festival and theatrical circuit. THE WANTED 18 was released in theatres in the US in Summer 2015 and won the Best Documentary Award at the Traverse City Film Festival. THE WANTED 18:an interactive graphic novel is available on ITunes and Google Play. In 2015, Intuitive completed the feature documentary VITA ACTIVA: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt directed by Ada Ushpiz which had its international premiere at IDFA, won the Best Documentary prize at Santa Barbara, was broadcast all over the world and was released in theatres in the US, Canada, Australia and Europe. Emmy-nominated THE OSLO Diaries had its world premiere at Sundance 2018 and sold to HBO. Intuitive also produced the award-winning feature doc LAILA AT THE BRIDGE (dir. Elizabeth Mirzaei and Gulistan Mirzaei) which premiered at CPH:Dox and screened at numerous festivals including Locarno, Hot Docs, Sheffield Doc Fest and DOC NYC. Intuitive Pictures is currently in production the co-production BLUE BOX (dir. Michal Weits), Shannon Walsh’s feature THE GIG IS UP, the VR installation and web doc series ONCE UPON A SEA and DON’T WORRY, THE DOORS WILL OPEN, a feature doc directed by newcomer Oksana Karpovych. Nicolas Wadimoff Born in 1964 in Geneva and is a Swiss director, documentary filmmaker and producer. He is the cofounder of Etat d’Urgences, an association managing the cultural centre USINE in Genève. Nicolas founded Akka Films, devoted to the development of fiction films and production of documentaries. He has directed more than 20 films, both fiction and documentaries, among them the multi awarded Clandestins (1997), Aisheen, Still Alive In Gaza (2010), Operation Libertad (2012), Spartiates (2014), Jean Ziegler, The Optimism Of Willpower (2016) and The Apollo Of Gaza (2018) which have been shown at major international film festivals such as Berlinale, Festival del film Locarno, Canne’s Director’s Fortnight, etc. recently he is the director of HEAD- Geneve		https://vimeo.com/693945656	English
590	Plan B - Filming Revolution, Building Solidarities	2020	conversation	During the long 1960s, filmmakers across the globe developed militant cinema traditions that aspired to break the prison of the image and to transform the world. Revolutions were fought with bullets, demonstrations and strikes but also with posters, songs and films. From Chile to Vietnam by way of Palestine, this cinema was central in the creation and circulation of revolutionary and liberation imaginaries. If these films remain a lively and contemporary archive that can guide us through our troubled times, so do the stories of how filmmakers themselves experienced this wave of cultural resistance. In this conversation, with Khadija Habassneh and Miguel Littin, we foreground the lived politics and poetics of those that collectively conspired to build a better future through cinema. Filmmaker, researcher and consultant Khadijeh Habashneh (former Abu Ali) began working with the Palestine Film Unit as a volunteer, moving on to working full time in 1974, when the film unit evolved into the Palestinian Cinema Institute (PCI). Between 1976 and 1982, she was the Head of the "Archive and Cinematheque" department at the PCI. She wrote scripts and directed two documentary films including Children Without Childhood, which is also known as Children Nevertheless, and Women from Palestine, which was lost during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982. She was a founding member and worked as member of executive committee of the General Union of Palestinian Women (GUPW) between 1980 and 2009. She was also a founding member and Vice President at the Center for Women Studies in Jordan (1989-1992). Khadijeh Habashneh has worked extensively on women’s issues as well as cinema, having taught and published a number of books and articles in this field. And she has coordinated national campaigns for enhancing women’s participation in elections in Jordan (1996) and in Palestine (2002-2005). Habashneh is also member of board of Palestinian Woman Research and Documentation Center (PWRDC) and is involved in various human rights and cultural organizations. Miguel Littín is a major Latin American film director, screenwriter, film producer and novelist. He was born to a Palestinian father, Hernán Littin and a Greek mother, Cristina Cucumides. In 1969, Littín directed the popular El Chacal de Nahueltoro, becoming a figure of the New Latin American Cinema. He went into exile shortly after Augusto Pinochet came to power in a military coup, which ousted the democratically elected socialist president Salvador Allende, on September 11, 1973. His 1973 film The Promised Land was featured in the Cannes Film Festival, New York film festival and the 8th Moscow International Film Festival. While in Mexico he directed several films, including Letters from Marusia, nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, El Recurso del Método (Long Live the President) and The Widow of Montiel. Then, in Nicaragua, he produced Alsino and the Condor, which won the Golden Prize at the 13th Moscow International Film Festival. After moving to Spain in 1984, Littín made Acta General de Chile, a film which in turn became the subject of the book Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littin by Nobel author Gabriel García Marquez. After his return to Chile, he continued to make films, including Tierra del Fuego and Dawson Island 10. His films Actas de Marusia and Alsino and the Condor were nominated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for Best Film in a Foreign Language. His 2005 film The Last Moon was entered into the 27th Moscow International Film Festival. Omar Jabary Salamanca is a research fellow and lecturer based at Ghent University. He is also the leading programmer for Eye On Palestine Arts and Film Festival. --- These round table conversations at a distance focus on the backup plan: a concept that Palestinian filmmakers are all too familiar with. These panels aim to connect these familiar experiences to one another, toward a greater understanding of how the Palestinian film scene will adapt - on the fly - to the latest developments in the international industry.		https://vimeo.com/432619179	English
591	Plan B - Restricted Production	2020	conversation	Producing a Palestinian film is never a straight forward task, it involves a lot of planning, not only in terms of image production, but also to make sure your team is safe, that you have the right permissions and that you have another plan - if the original plan doesn’t work. In this panel, we will hear from experienced producers who had to go through this every time they make a film with the involvement of Palestinians, Moderated by the legendary filmmaker Jihan El Tahri, who has the experience of filming the palestinian stories since the 70s, from Lebanon and Tunis to Palestine. Jihan El Tahri (Moderator) An Egyptianborn French filmmaker who began her career as a foreign correspondent covering Middle East politics for the Financial Times, Washington Post, and US News & World Reports. El- Tahri has since produced and directed several documentaries, including the trilogy Egypt’s Modern Pharaohs (2016), which follows the lives of three successive presidents of Egypt: Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar Al-Sadat, and Hosni Mubarak; The House of Saud (2004), which looks at Saudi–US relations through portraits of the kingdom’s monarchs; and Behind the Rainbow (2008), which was made during the transition period of a newly independent South Africa. She is also a visual artist, where her work revisits moments of Independence, and decolonization.		https://vimeo.com/431330301	English
592	Cinematic Dialogs - Hady Zaccak & May Odeh	2021	conversation	For our first episode, Producer and Palestinian Films Platform programer May Odeh will join Hady Zaccak to discuss the cinematic relationship between Palestine and Lebanon, marking the conclusion of the PFP's April program, "Palestine in Lebanon."		https://vimeo.com/545039486	Arabic
593	Cinematic Dialogs \| Episode 2 - Stefano Sovano & Mohamed Jabaly	2021	conversation	The director of Samouni Road (2018) Stefano Savona in conversation with Mohamed Jabaly, the director of Ambulance (2017) discussing the challenges of documenting Gaza and making a cinematic image of a cruel reality, while dealing with a film Industry that promotes, to a large extent, the settler colonial narrative, not only toward Palestine, but toward the struggles around the world.		https://vimeo.com/554121860	English
594	Cinematic Dialogs \| Episode 3 - Michel Khleifi & Eyal Sivan	2021	conversation			https://vimeo.com/566641516	French
595	Cinematic Dialogs \| Episode 4 - Cherien Dabis & Noura Erakat	2021	conversation			https://vimeo.com/591252389	English
596	Cinematic Dialogs \| Episode 5 - Lubna Taha, Christian Mouroux & Geraldo Adriano Campos	2022	conversation			https://vimeo.com/591255237	English
597	Cinematic Dialogs \| Episode 6 - Ameer Fakher Eldin & Ashraf Barhoum	2022	conversation	The sixth instalment in the Cinematic Dialogs series, Director Ameer Fakher Eldin and Actor Ashraf Barhoum reflect together on Fakher Eldin's new film The Stranger, set in the occupied Golan Heights. ... Ameer Fakher Eldin is a Syrian screenwriter and director. He was born in the former Soviet Union to Syrian parents from the occupied Golan Heights. After earning his BA in Film Studies, he made several award-winning short films. Fakher Eldin serves as a jury member on various film funds. His debut film The Stranger is also the first feature film from the Golan Heights. His new film project, "Nothing of Nothing Remains", is in development. ... Ashraf Barhoum is a Palestinian Actor, Born in Tarshiha town in Galililee in 1977. After graduating from school Ashraf studied theater in Haifa university between 1996 and 1999. He started his career in theater and Cinema. He has appeared in THE SYRIAN BRIDE (2004) by Eran Riklis, in PARADISE NOW (2005) by EFA Winner Hany Abu-Assad and in LEBANON (2009) by EFA Winner Samuel Maoz. He got a lot of attention for his performance as Colonel Faris Al Ghazi in THE KINGDOM (2007) directed by Peter Berg, as Cassius in CORIOLANUS (2011) with Ralph Fiennes, won the award for best actor in Malmo's Film festival and Tiburon Film Festival, for his role as Radi in THE CURVE (2015) by Rifqi Assaf. he played in the T.V series "Tyrant" for FX, in the role of Jamal. he recently took major roles in Scales, in Farha, and in Algarib directed by Amir Fakhr Edin.		https://vimeo.com/617165145	English
598	Cinematic Dialogs \| Episode 7 - Lina Soualem & Hiam Abbass	2022	conversation	Our Cinematic Dialogs return with an exchange between actor/directors Lina Soualem and Hiam Abbass, exploring themes of identity and home in their film practices. Lina Soualem is a French-Palestinian-Algerian filmmaker and actress, born and based in Paris. In 2019, she released her debut feature documentary Their Algeria. These past years, Lina acted in three feature films directed by Hafsia Herzi, Hiam Abbass and Rayhana. She is currently developing her second feature documentary, and works as an author and assistant director on fiction films, documentaries and TV series. Hiam Abbass is a pioneering Palestinian actress and director. She is known for her roles in films such as Satin Rouge (2002), Haifa (1996), Paradise Now (2005), The Syrian Bride (2004), Free Zone (2005), Dawn of the World (2008), The Visitor (2008), Lemon Tree (2008), and Amreeka (2009). In 2012 her directorial debut, The Inheritance, debuted at the Venice Film Festival. Her influence and profile has continued to grow in recent years, through rolls in hit television shows like Ramy (2019-present) and Succession (2018-present).		https://vimeo.com/693945656	Arabic
599	Realism's Influence on Mai Masri \| afikra	2022	conversation	Mai Masri talked about films and film movements that influenced her work as a director. Mai Masri is a Palestinian filmmaker, director, and producer. We interviewed her about her career in directing and producing award-winning films that have been broadcast on more than 100 television stations worldwide.		https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On4N0QtxvPk	English
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603	Walid Khalidi \| The Nakba: Sixty Years of Dispossession, Sixty Years of Resistance	2009	speech	Keynote: Walid Khalidi (Co-founder of the Institute of Palestine Studies) From 1947 to 1897: From Partition to Basle. 21 & 22 Feb 2009, conference The Nakba at he Brunei Gallery - SOAS - University of London.		https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxY1oUmpsqw	English
604	Walid Khalidi on the Making of Before Their Diaspora	2012	interview	To coincide with the release of the new interactive website Before Their Diaspora [btd.palestine-studies.org], Professor Walid Khalidi talks about the writing, formatting, and editing of his seminal work which inspired the online version.		https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ7atcpyaY8	English
605	Ilan Pappe \| From Dispossession to Occupation	2012	speech	The Birth of Zionism and its Impact on the Palestinians: From Dispossession to Occupation. Ilan Pappe - The Russell Tribunal on Palestine - New York.		https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krtN0SZ6NJo	English
606	Ilan Pappe \| The Forgotten Palestinians	2012	speech	Celebrated historian, Ilan Pappe who wrote "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine" that documented the 1948 removal of 700,000 Palestinians from their lands, has now written about "The Forgotten Palestinians". In the book, and at this September 16 community meeting at Sydney University, Pappe reveals the situation for the Palestinians who still live within the Israeli apartheid in historical Palestine. This was the first event of Professor Pappe's 2012 Australian lecture tour. It was hosted by the Sydney Peace Foundation at the University of Sydney with the Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine and Leichhardt Friends of Hebron. Professor Pappe is in Australia as the guest of AFOPA to deliver the annual Edward Said Memorial Lecture at the University of Adelaide.		https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz9FEVdzccM	English