Palestinian Films collection, 1976-2008

"In rural France, a couple and their son are about to have lunch. There's no bread left. The father goes to buy some. Time passes and the mother goes off in turn to buy bread ... This is the first film by noted Palestinian actress Hiam Abbas, most recently seen starring in Satin Rouge. (Grand Prize: 2002 Montpellier Mediterranean Festival)."

Director : Abbas, Hiam.

"At the Listener's Request : A story about love, friendship and the fine time of radio in remote countryside. A love affair between a woman and a young man: Aziza and Jamal. A friendship between Jamal and a disabled man who runs away from his parents oppression to the house of Abou Jamal who accepts him as a son ; The Nights of the Jackal : Syria, 1967, rumors of war. Abu Kamel, a peasant who farms tomatoes near Latakia, bullies his family. One by one, each rebels against him or finds a route to break away. One daughter marries, another has a clandestine relationship with a cobbler too fearful to ask Abu Kamel for her hand."

Director : Abdelhamid, Abdellatif.

"Set in the north of Syria, a village idiot with an enormous nose (Ismail) falls in love with his beautiful neighbor (Salma), thus he sends his handsome friend - who also falls in love with her- to deliver her oral love letters."

Director : Abdelhamid, Abdellatif.

Director : Abdoh, Reza.

Director : Abourahme, Dahna.

"Esam, a young Arab war refugee who lives in Tel Aviv, makes his living as a male prostitute. His physical pleasures, which make him forget his hunger, remind him constantly of his childhood memories in his home village"

Director : Abu Wael, Tawfiq.

"The film follows Rajai, who drives his Ford Transit between Ramallah and Jerusalem, and captures the roadblocks, conversations, and frustrations common to the daily lives of Palestinians under occupation."

Director : Abu-Assad, Hany.

"The film follows Rajai, who drives his Ford Transit between Ramallah and Jerusalem, and captures the roadblocks, conversations, and frustrations common to the daily lives of Palestinians under occupation."

Director : Abu-Assad, Hany.

"Rana, a young Palestinian woman sneaks out of her father's house at daybreak. It is the day she is set to go with her father to Egypt, but she doesn't want to leave. She wants to stay in Jerusalem with her boyfriend and does not want to marry any of the men her father has selected. She wanders through East Jerusalem and Ramallah, looking for her true love, Khalil. Upon finding him she tries to organize the wedding and convince her father to give his consent. For this is in her view the only way to remain here. While the people of East Jerusalem and Ramallah are living under oppression and occupation, while abnormal things like roadblocks and barriers, soldiers and guns are becoming the reality of everyday life, normal things like love or a wedding become fiction."

Director : Abu-Assad, Hany.

"Rana, a young Palestinian woman sneaks out of her father's house at daybreak. It is the day she is set to go with her father to Egypt, but she doesn't want to leave. She wants to stay in Jerusalem with her boyfriend and does not want to marry any of the men her father has selected. She wanders through East Jerusalem and Ramallah, looking for her true love, Khalil. Upon finding him she tries to organize the wedding and convince her father to give his consent. For this is in her view the only way to remain here. While the people of East Jerusalem and Ramallah are living under oppression and occupation, while abnormal things like roadblocks and barriers, soldiers and guns are becoming the reality of everyday life, normal things like love or a wedding become fiction."

Director : Abu-Assad, Hany.

Director : Ahmadi, Mohammad.

"The three filmmakers, who work as TV news cameramen in Ramallah, are caught in their offices when the Israeli military occupies the city in March 2002. This film is a chronicle of the days they spent inside, under curfew, as the siege of Arafat's compound dragged on. Its follows the mundane realities of trying to live under a military curfew with humor and dignity, and ends with their escape from the office."

Director : Ahmed, Imad ; Habash, Ismail ; Al Helou, Raed.

"The three filmmakers, who work as TV news cameramen in Ramallah, are caught in their offices when the Israeli military occupies the city in March 2002. This film is a chronicle of the days they spent inside, under curfew, as the siege of Arafat's compound dragged on. Its follows the mundane realities of trying to live under a military curfew with humor and dignity, and ends with their escape from the office."

Director : Ahmed, Imad ; Habash, Ismail ; Al Helou, Raed.

"An Arab fairy tale goes awry in the Netherlands when the invincible hero "Hassan-the Smart" becomes a nameless junkie. The director (in a voice-over and through the nostalgic images of Amsterdam) projects his feelings of being lost in this fairy tale character. Eventually, the narrative becomes the story of the director trying to retrieve his lost childhood by attempting to come to terms with the sense of belonging nowhere. It is a story about being homeless in a city, being far away from home, having lost your own country, your culture, your roots, your identity ..."

Director : AI Massad, Mahmoud.

"Transparency investigates the more personal reasons and feelings of women toward this issue. The film depicts social and psychological impacts of veiling (and unveiling) through telling the stories of different Muslim women who live in the U.S. One story involves Merve Kavakci, a member of the Turkish parliament who left her country after she was not allowed to practice her role as a PM because she wears a headscarf."

Director : AI-Zain, Osama.

Director : Al Helou, Raed.

"An Arab fairy tale goes awry in the Netherlands when the invincible hero "Hassan-the Smart" becomes a nameless junkie. The director (in a voice-over and through the nostalgic images of Amsterdam) projects his feelings of being lost in this fairy tale character. Eventually, the narrative becomes the story of the director trying to retrieve his lost childhood by attempting to come to terms with the sense of belonging nowhere. It is a story about being homeless in a city, being far away from home, having lost your own country, your culture, your roots, your identity ..."

Director : Al Massad, Mahmoud.

"Every day is a bad-news day in a tiny place in this world called Palestine. Death has become very much part of daily life on the West Bank and Gaza. A Palestinian woman goes through the daily routines of eating, drinking, and feeding her son while the news of the conflict permeates her mundane chores."

Director : Al Yassir, Nada.

"Every day is a bad-news day in a tiny place in this world called Palestine. Death has become very much part of daily life on the West Bank and Gaza. A Palestinian woman goes through the daily routines of eating, drinking, and feeding her son while the news of the conflict permeates her mundane chores."

Director : Al Yassir, Nada.

"Every day is a bad-news day in a tiny place in this world called Palestine. Death has become very much part of daily life on the West Bank and Gaza. A Palestinian woman goes through the daily routines of eating, drinking, and feeding her son while the news of the conflict permeates her mundane chores."

Director : Al Yassir, Nada.

"On April 9 1948, the small Muslim village of Deir Yassin just outside Jerusalem was attacked by Jewish Israelis, and 100 unarmed civilians massacred."

Director : Al-Daoud, Eyad.

"A documentary film that records the events before, during and after the Israeli invasion of Jenin refugee camp on 5th April 2002."

Director : Al-Daoud, Eyad.

"In the early autumn of 2002, seven young Palestinian artists gather in Ramallah to present their work in a group exhibition for an Arts Competition. Three others, unable to attend because of the total closure of the Gaza Strip where they live, send their work through the French and British diplomatic bags. Three jurors brave the closures and travel to Ramallah from Jerusalem, Cuba and France. The film is a video diary, which recounts the events surrounding the exhibition and explores some aspects of art's relationship with resistance, politics and violence."

Director : Al-Qattan, Omar, 1964-.

"In late 1947, Palestine is a country in the throes of war between Palestine's Arabs and Jews. The British government is officially responsible for maintaining law and order but it quickly loses control and decides to abandon the country on May 15th 1948, leaving behind a war which was to lead to the tragic dispossession of over three quarter million Palestinian Arabs of their homes and the creation of the state of Israel. One man, Major Derek Cooper, witnessed those final days of the Mandate as an officer in the British army responsible for the protection of the Arab city of Jaffa. His experiences there marked him so deeply that he continued to work on behalf of Palestine's refugees for most of his life. The film tells the story of his return to Palestine/Israel in the summer of 1995."

Director : Al-Qattan, Omar, 1964-.

"A short film offering an impressionistic glimpse into the experience of Palestinians in Ramallah living under military siege."

Director : Al-Sawalmeh, Muhammed.

"A short film offering an impressionistic glimpse into the experience of Palestinians in Ramallah living under military siege."

Director : Al-Sawalmeh, Muhammed.

Director : Anastas, Ayreen.

"The filmmaker returns to his hometown of Bethlehem during the Israeli army invasion of the city in April 2001. He goes to a barber to cut his hair and finds that the barbershop represents a microcosm of the community that comes to the shop in order to seek refuge from the warring world outside. The shop's regular patrons strive for a measure of normalcy in their conversations and the enactment of their usual rhythms of life."

Director : Andoni , Saed.

"A semi-autobiographical sketch of Palestinian identity as seen through various immigrants' lives. I am Palestine is the exploration of a stateless nation, one that exists despite the powerful forces that try to crush it. Palestine is a people who refuse to be defeated, who continue to hold their heads high. Generations on every continent keep Palestine alive through stories, memories and hope. I am Palestine is a window into what it means to be a Palestinian while Palestine does not exist, and how a collective experience and a profound hope holds Palestine together. One story, one struggle, millions of lives. This is about a passion to live, a purpose to exist and a reason to believe in a future."

Director : Araj, Suha.

"Exploring the devastating effects of military occupation, terror and isolation, this deeply moving piece explores the lives of eight Palestinian women and their struggle to live normal lives amidst the degrading drama of war. Representing a diverse cross-section of Palestinian society - from a news editor to a domestic worker to a housewife - they candidly speak about their daily encounters with violence and their marginalization in the ideological debate concerning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. "

Director : Arasoughly, Alia.

"Testimony of a Palestinian woman in exile, first in Lebanon and then in the United States. Through poetic narrative, photographs, paintings and live footage from war zones and refugee camps, transmits something of the experience of being uprooted with family scattered through war and exile."

Director : Arasoughly, Alia.

"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."

Director : Awwad, Nahed.

"A few days after the April 2001 invasion of the Jenin refugee camp by the Israeli military, a camera crew shoots at the site: it captures the camp at a time when the people still have not fully understood what happened. The film is not an informational report about these events, but a description of the traces left by the events that marked the souls of the inhabitants. It depicts resistance, heroism and victory despite disasters, despite victims, and despite the destruction of lives. (2003 Locarno Film Festival)"

Director : Bakri, Muhammad.

"A few days after the April 2001 invasion of the Jenin refugee camp by the Israeli military, a camera crew shoots at the site: it captures the camp at a time when the people still have not fully understood what happened. The film is not an informational report about these events, but a description of the traces left by the events that marked the souls of the inhabitants. It depicts resistance, heroism and victory despite disasters, despite victims, and despite the destruction of lives. (2003 Locarno Film Festival)"

Director : Bakri, Muhammad.

Director : Belabbes, Hakim.

"The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) advocates for journalists who struggle around the world to tell the stories important to their communities. This film chronicles CPJ's work in the Middle East during 2001-2002, in the aftermath of 9/11. It focuses on Mazen Dana, a Palestinian cameraperson for Reuters who is the first cameraperson to receive a CPJ Press Freedom Award for his work covering Hebron; he returns to Hebron after receiving his award. After the production of this documentary, Mazen Dana was killed by U.S. soldiers in Baghdad in August, 2003. For more on his story and on the role of Palestinian journalists in the production of U.S. news, see the ethnography Back Stories: U.S. News and Palestinian Politics (Stanford University Press, 2013), also by Amahl Bishara"

Director : Bishara, Amahl.

"A few weeks after the beginning of the final stage in the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, a Palestinian-American filmmaker embarks on a journey back to his city of ancestry, Jerusalem. Instead of finding his Israeli neighbors mobilizing for peace, he encounters unexpected hostility. It was an ominous sign. Days later, the Jerusalem Uprising breaks out after Sharon's fateful incursion into the Noble Sanctuary (Al-Aqsa). The filmmaker finds himself in the eye of the storm as a witness to tragedies of fellow Palestinian Jerusalemites who are gunned down mercilessly by Israeli soldiers before his very eyes. At the Makassed Hospital in Jerusalem, the filmmaker lives the drama of a number of Jerusalemite families as they cope with death, injury, and injustice. As the toll mounted, one person symbolized the tragic losses of the first day of the Intifada. On Friday September 29,2000, the 23-year-old Osama Mohammad Jaddah, an African-Palestinian from the Old City of Jerusalem, was on his way to give blood but was gunned down by an Israeli sniper at the Makassed Hospital. According to the Israeli media, his mother Wafa sent him to die for a cash reward and a photo opportunity. This couldn't be further from the truth ..."

Director : Bitar, Hazim M.

"A few weeks after the beginning of the final stage in the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, a Palestinian-American filmmaker embarks on a journey back to his city of ancestry, Jerusalem. Instead of finding his Israeli neighbors mobilizing for peace, he encounters unexpected hostility. It was an ominous sign. Days later, the Jerusalem Uprising breaks out after Sharon's fateful incursion into the Noble Sanctuary (AIAqsa). The filmmaker finds himself in the eye of the storm as a witness to tragedies of fellow Palestinian Jerusalemites who are gunned down mercilessly by Israeli soldiers before his very eyes. At the Makassed Hospital in Jerusalem, the filmmaker lives the drama of a number of Jerusalemite families as they cope with death, injury, and injustice. As the toll mounted, one person symbolized the tragic losses of the first day of the Intifada. On Friday September 29,2000, the 23-year-old Osama Mohammad Jaddah, an African-Palestinian from the Old City of Jerusalem, was on his way to give blood but was gunned down by an Israeli sniper at the Makassed Hospital. According to the Israeli media, his mother Wafa sent him to die for a cash reward and a photo opportunity. This couldn't be further from the truth ..."

Director : Bitar, Hazim M.

"A few weeks after the beginning of the final stage in the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, a Palestinian-American filmmaker embarks on a journey back to his city of ancestry, Jerusalem. Instead of finding his Israeli neighbors mobilizing for peace, he encounters unexpected hostility. It was an ominous sign. Days later, the Jerusalem Uprising breaks out after Sharon's fateful incursion into the Noble Sanctuary (AIAqsa). The filmmaker finds himself in the eye of the storm as a witness to tragedies of fellow Palestinian Jerusalemites who are gunned down mercilessly by Israeli soldiers before his very eyes. At the Makassed Hospital in Jerusalem, the filmmaker lives the drama of a number of Jerusalemite families as they cope with death, injury, and injustice. As the toll mounted, one person symbolized the tragic losses of the first day of the Intifada. On Friday September 29,2000, the 23-year-old Osama Mohammad Jaddah, an African-Palestinian from the Old City of Jerusalem, was on his way to give blood but was gunned down by an Israeli sniper at the Makassed Hospital. According to the Israeli media, his mother Wafa sent him to die for a cash reward and a photo opportunity. This couldn't be further from the truth ..."

Director : Bitar, Hazim M.

"An Israeli man in the midst of a mid-life crisis leaves his family in Jerusalem, travels secretly to Tel Aviv, enters a fictitious marriage, and is mistaken for an Arab laborer."

Director : Bouzaglo, Haim.

"Edward Said talks with a variety of people about the issue of Arabs displaced by the establishment of Israel and by subsequent Israeli policies"

Director : Bruce, Charles.

"A film attacking patriarchal practices in a small Algerian village."

Director : Chouikh, Mohamed, 1943-.

"With the establishment of Israel in 1948, some one million Palestinians were expelled from their homes most became refugees, a minority of these remained inside the borders of what became Israel. Today some 300,000 of these internal refugees reside in Israel, dreaming to return to their original villages and homes. Many of them still keep their old house keys. Mafateeh tells the stories of these families, portraying the emotional turmoil encountered by people who are constantly flung between hope and despair, pain and longing, dream and reality. Director Salim Daw embarks on a journey around the Galilee through the remains of the original villages. A refugee himself, he contrasts his personal memories with those of the characters he meets joining them in their struggle for equal rights in the present, and in their dream of returning to their villages, some of which no longer exist, and others of which have been rebuilt as Jewish towns and villages."

Director : Daw, Salim.

"This documentary film celebrates life's little details, and at the same time reveals the layers of our relationship with death and life. The film is a diary of the director's life and that of four boys who live in her neighborhood. As political reality worsens, the five characters find that their life's small details are taken over by political events."

Director : El-Hassan, Azza.

"This documentary film celebrates life's little details, and at the same time reveals the layers of our relationship with death and life. The film is a diary of the director's life and that of four boys who live in her neighborhood. As political reality worsens, the five characters find that their life's small details are taken over by political events."

Director : El-Hassan, Azza.

"This documentary film celebrates life's little details, and at the same time reveals the layers of our relationship with death and life. The film is a diary of the director's life and that of four boys who live in her neighborhood. As political reality worsens, the five characters find that their life's small details are taken over by political events."

Director : El-Hassan, Azza.

"This documentary film celebrates life's little details, and at the same time reveals the layers of our relationship with death and life. The film is a diary of the director's life and that of four boys who live in her neighborhood. As political reality worsens, the five characters find that their life's small details are taken over by political events."

Director : El-Hassan, Azza.

Director : Elias, Hanna.

"A Palestinian Arab girl is betrothed by her father to a well-to-do lawyer. She loves a younger man, but would risk being killed by the men of her village if she ran away to marry him. Her grandmother and mother agree to assist her attempt to climb the barrier mountain and escape."

Director : Elias, Hanna.

"A brief introduction to some of the main issues associated with the Palestinian Right to Return and why it is a key issue in forging a just peace in the Middle East made by a collective of Palestinian filmmakers based in the United States"

Director : Falafel Daddy Productions.

Director : Fisk, Robert.

"This intimate film, evocative and poetic, follows the steps of an elderly woman in the years between 1988 and 2001. Blanche was born in Jaffa, Palestine, where her parents were landowners, and was exiled in the 1948 war. Her life became a series of exiles, from Jaffa to Beirut to Europe and the U.S. Reflecting on the history she has lived, Blanche rebels against the amnesia of the world concerning the fate of the Palestinians, and through dialogues between her and the younger generations of exiled Palestinians, bears witness to the tenacity and permanence of their identity."

Director : Gargour, Maryse.

"This intimate film, evocative and poetic, follows the steps of an elderly woman in the years between 1988 and 2001. Blanche was born in Jaffa, Palestine, where her parents were landowners, and was exiled in the 1948 war. Her life became a series of exiles, from Jaffa to Beirut to Europe and the U.S. Reflecting on the history she has lived, Blanche rebels against the amnesia of the world concerning the fate of the Palestinians, and through dialogues between her and the younger generations of exiled Palestinians, bears witness to the tenacity and permanence of their identity."

Director : Gargour, Maryse.

"This intimate film, evocative and poetic, follows the steps of an elderly woman in the years between 1988 and 2001. Blanche was born in Jaffa, Palestine, where her parents were landowners, and was exiled in the 1948 war. Her life became a series of exiles, from Jaffa to Beirut to Europe and the U.S. Reflecting on the history she has lived, Blanche rebels against the amnesia of the world concerning the fate of the Palestinians, and through dialogues between her and the younger generations of exiled Palestinians, bears witness to the tenacity and permanence of their identity."

Director : Gargour, Maryse.

"In this meditation on how cinema records history, the filmmakers, members of the "Dziga Vertov Group," contrast a French family's life with an impressionistic portrait of war in Palestine, as reflected through television, books, and other media."

Director : Godard, Jean-Luc, 1930-.

Director : Habash, Ahmad.

"Some birds immigrate, but all the birds keep coming back seeking the warmth of the homeland. This is the story of one. (Animation)"

Director : Habash, Ahmad.

"This is a story about the last days of the lives of seven people before the collision of the Moon into the Earth. It is about the daydreams of a young man, the silence of a lonely widow, the ramblings of a village idiot, the anxiety of a boy with a toothache, the cravings for freedom of a prisoner on a hunger strike, the fantasies of a young woman in love and the plans for a better future of an couple about to immigrate"

Director : Habash, Ahmad.

"This is a story about the last days of the lives of seven people before the collision of the Moon into the Earth. It is about the daydreams of a young man, the silence of a lonely widow, the ramblings of a village idiot, the anxiety of a boy with a toothache, the cravings for freedom of a prisoner on a hunger strike, the fantasies of a young woman in love and the plans for a better future of an couple about to immigrate"

Director : Habash, Ahmad.

"This is a story about the last days of the lives of seven people before the collision of the Moon into the Earth. It is about the daydreams of a young man, the silence of a lonely widow, the ramblings of a village idiot, the anxiety of a boy with a toothache, the cravings for freedom of a prisoner on a hunger strike, the fantasies of a young woman in love and the plans for a better future of an couple about to immigrate"

Director : Habash, Ahmad.

"Based on "Ka'ek on the sidewalk" a short story by Ghassan Kanafani a school teacher's conscience is put to the test as he tries to assist one of his students, whose life story unfolds in a series of daunting events."

Director : Habash, Ismail.

"A French film crew spent several weeks with Edward Said shortly before his death in 2003, and offers a glimpse at some of his final reflections on the themes that dominated his work: postcolonial studies, Palestinian Arabs in Israel, and western perceptions of the Middle East."

Director : Hamon, Emmanuel.

"An Israeli Soldier views a documentary about the aftermath of the Israeli invasion in Jenin camp. He was one of the drivers of the bulldozers that caused massive destruction in the camp. The camera moves between demolished homes and alleys, echoing the hopes and fears of the Palestinian people and their basic right to live in peace. This is the story of simple dreams being wiped out by the invasion."

Director : Hassan, Nizar.

"This short film - made up of Super-8 footage of a family visit to Palestine, shot by the director's father in the 70's - looks at a world already lost. By revisiting and reformulating these images as a tourist advertisement, an new image of Palestine emerges - one that may be the fiction of nostalgia, or one which tells the truth of loss through the absurdities of commercial language."

Director : Irshaid, Nabila.

"This short film - made up of Super-8 footage of a family visit to Palestine, shot by the director's father in the 70's - looks at a world already lost. By revisiting and reformulating these images as a tourist advertisement, a new image of Palestine emerges - one that may be the fiction of nostalgia, or one which tells the truth of loss through the absurdities of commercial language."

Director : Irshaid, Nabila.

"Re-examines the Western. The simple story of a Palestinian family living in Texas, the film's subtext tackles masculinity, hypocrisy in U.S. foreign policy and the clash between Orientalism and Occidentalism. The family's teenage son, Tawfiq, while struggling to assimilate and fit in with his idea of American life, befriends an American boy named "The Kid." Both boys are obsessed with Western movies, but for different reasons: Tawfiq romanticizes American heros and justice, while The Kid sees the Old West as the last time in American history when everything was still perfect, untainted by technology."

Director : Jacir, Annemarie.

"Re-examines the Western. The simple story of a Palestinian family living in Texas, the film's subtext tackles masculinity, hypocrisy in U.S. foreign policy and the clash between Orientalism and Occidentalism. The family's teenage son, Tawfiq, while struggling to assimilate and fit in with his idea of American life, befriends an American boy named "The Kid." Both boys are obsessed with Western movies, but for different reasons: Tawfiq romanticizes American heros and justice, while The Kid sees the Old West as the last time in American history when everything was still perfect, untainted by technology."

Director : Jacir, Annemarie.

"Re-examines the Western. The simple story of a Palestinian family living in Texas, the film's subtext tackles masculinity, hypocrisy in U.S. foreign policy and the clash between Orientalism and Occidentalism. The family's teenage son, Tawfiq, while struggling to assimilate and fit in with his idea of American life, befriends an American boy named "The Kid." Both boys are obsessed with Western movies, but for different reasons: Tawfiq romanticizes American heros and justice, while The Kid sees the Old West as the last time in American history when everything was still perfect, untainted by technology."

Director : Jacir, Annemarie.

"During the Lebanese civil war, thousands of people disappeared. In most cases, the bodies were not found and the circumstances of their disappearance never known. The director travels through Beirut, asking the inhabitants I encounter, one same question: Do you know anyone who was kidnapped here during the war?"

Director : Joreige, Lamia.

"We're deprived from playing because of the landmines, and our families are not able to cultivate the land." Israel left many land mines in South Lebanon when they withdrew from the country in May, 2000. Following Israel's withdrawal, many children continued to be injured by these mines. This film aims to prompt both government and public action to remedy this situation."

Director : Kāyed, Hishām.

"Walls continue to be raised, barbed-wires laid down, new borders succeeding those already present in the collective unconscious of both peoples. What can cinema do before a situation so desperately devoid of hope? Sivan and Khleifi, faced with the tragic torments shaking their societies, come together in a sort of filmic act of faith. They believe that the only "realistic" solution rests in the prospect of a bi-national state where citizens share equal rights and duties for peaceful coexistence."

Director : Khleifi, Michel.

"Walls continue to be raised, barbed-wires laid down, new borders succeeding those already present in the collective unconscious of both peoples. What can cinema do before a situation so desperately devoid of hope? Sivan and Khleifi, faced with the tragic torments shaking their societies, come together in a sort of filmic act of faith. They believe that the only "realistic" solution rests in the prospect of a bi-national state where citizens share equal rights and duties for peaceful coexistence."

Director : Khleifi, Michel.

"Walls continue to be raised, barbed-wires laid down, new borders succeeding those already present in the collective unconscious of both peoples. What can cinema do before a situation so desperately devoid of hope? Sivan and Khleifi, faced with the tragic torments shaking their societies, come together in a sort of filmic act of faith. They believe that the only "realistic" solution rests in the prospect of a bi-national state where citizens share equal rights and duties for peaceful coexistence."

Director : Khleifi, Michel.

"A classic in Palestinian feature filmmaking -- a traditional Palestinian wedding is affected when, as a stipulation for granting a permit for the celebration, a local Israeli military commander demands to be invited. (1987 Toronto Film Festival)"

Director : Khleifi, Michel.

"At eight o'clock, it's Laila's birthday, okay?' Palestinian judge turned cab driver Abu's wife reminds her husband. On his young daughter's birthday, Abu faces a nerve-wracking shift in a Ramallah yellow cab, armed only with an ex-jurist's misplaced pride, a father's loyalty, and a sticker reminding passengers that smoking and carrying AK-47's are prohibited."

Director : Mashharāwi, Rashīd, 1962-.

"A Palestinian couple, Jabar and Sana, live in a refugee camp near Ramallah. Sana volunteers with the emergency service of the Red Crescent Society. Jabar is unemployed and with no job prospects in the immediate future. He immerses himself in his passion, running a mobile cinema for children throughout the West Bank. One day, an opportunity to organize a screening in the old city of Jerusalem is made available to him. Despite the numerous obstacles that face him, he is determined to keep his commitment. "

Director : Mashharāwi, Rashīd, 1962-.

"A Palestinian couple, Jabar and Sana, live in a refugee camp near Ramallah. Sana volunteers with the emergency service of the Red Crescent Society. Jaber is unemployed and with no job prospects in the immediate future. He immerses himself in his passion, running a mobile cinema for children throughout the West Bank. One day, an opportunity to organize a screening in the old city of Jerusalem is made available to him. Despite the numerous obstacles that face him, he is determined to keep his commitment."

Director : Mashharāwi, Rashīd, 1962-.

"In the stormy aftermath of the peace accord signed between Israel and the PLO, 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 the 47-year-old mother of two whose high profile and personal integrity have made her enemies as well as friends?"

Director : Masri, Mai.

"In the stormy aftermath of the peace accord signed between Israel and the PLO, 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 the 47-year-old mother of two whose high profile and personal integrity have made her enemies as well as friends?"

Director : Masri, Mai.

"11 directors from different countries and cultures. 11 visions of the tragic events that occurred in New York City on September 11th 2001. 11 points of view committing their subjective conscience. Complete freedom of expression. Reflecting on the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in short films lasting 11 minutes, 9 seconds and 1 frame each. In subject matter, they range from the very personal, to an oscillation between didacticism and relativism, to moments of pure cinema."

Director : Mirabai Films.

"Stars in Broad Daylight: "In his debut feature film, director Muhammad explores the inexorable dissolution of a family, ironically during the planning of a wedding, the kind of ritual that ought to bond family members together in shared joy. The film exposes the divisive dynamics of patriarchal oppression, and the terrible connections between familial and sociopolitical violence" ; Sacrifices : "Four families live together in an isolated house in the mountains, where conflicts erupt between the generations"".

Director : Mohammad, Oussama.

"A documentary exploring social life in Yaffa before 1948 through miniature portrait of a Palestinian couple, Wadee'a Aghabi and Naim Azar, constructed through the oral histories presented by their daughters and relatives."

Director : Najjar, Najwa.

"A documentary exploring social life in Yaffa before 1948 through miniature portrait of a Palestinian couple, Wadee'a Aghabi and Naim Azar, constructed through the oral histories presented by their daughters and relatives."

Director : Najjar, Najwa.

"A story set in a Palestinian village inside Israel during 1964, the final year of Israeli military occupation in the Galilee, and concerns the peoples lives under military rule."

Director : Nassar, Ali.

"A story set in a Palestinian village inside Israel during 1964, the final year of Israeli military occupation in the Galilee, and concerns the peoples lives under military rule."

Director : Nassar, Ali.

"A story set in a Palestinian village inside Israel during 1964, the final year of Israeli military occupation in the Galilee, and concerns the people's lives under military rule."

Director : Nassar, Ali.

"A story set in a Palestinian village inside Israel during 1964, the final year of Israeli military occupation in the Galilee, and concerns the people's lives under military rule."

Director : Nassar, Ali.

"A story set in a Palestinian village inside Israel during 1964, the final year of Israeli military occupation in the Galilee, and concerns the peoples lives under military rule."

Director : Nassar, Ali.

"A story set in a Palestinian village inside Israel during 1964, the final year of Israeli military occupation in the Galilee, and concerns the peoples lives under military rule."

Director : Naṣṣār, ʻAlī.

"A story set in a Palestinian village inside Israel during 1964, the final year of Israeli military occupation in the Galilee, and concerns the peoples lives under military rule."

Director : Naṣṣār, ʻAlī.

Director : Rastegar, Kamran.

"A portrait of Jerusalem, through the lives of three people who embody the city: Reem, an artist, Ali, a black political prisoner, and Farouq, who lives on the memories of a glorious past. For them, Jerusalem is a dream that troubles the'd and spirit, between the recurring violence and simple survival. (Festival Awards: Torino 2001, Lussas 2001, Nyon 2001)."

Director : Safadi, Akram.

"A portrait of Jerusalem, through the lives of three people who embody the city: Reem, an artist, Ali, a black political prisoner, and Farouq, who lives on the memories of a glorious past. For them, Jerusalem is a dream that troubles them and spirit, between the recurring violence and simple survival. (Festival Awards: Torino 2001, Lussas 2001, Nyon 2001)."

Director : Safadi, Akram.

"A portrait of Jerusalem, through the lives of three people who embody the city: Reem, an artist, Ali, a black political prisoner, and Farouq, who lives on the memories of a glorious past. For them, Jerusalem is a dream that troubles them and spirit, between the recurring violence and simple survival. (Festival Awards: Torino 2001, Lussas 2001, Nyon 2001)."

Director : Safadi, Akram.

Director : Salloum, Jacqueline.

Director : Salti, Ihab.

Director : Salti, Ihab.

"A short film about becoming a human shield and about one's reasons for taking up what might appear as another people's battle."

Director : Sansour, Leila.

"British comedian Jeremy Hardy makes a rash decision to travel to Palestine in March 2002 just before the invasion of Bethlehem and the siege of the Nativity Church. He joins a campaign to protect Palestinian farmers against the hostility of settlers but finds himself caught up in the events of the invasion. He decides to return later, but this time - in a manner of speaking - to take on the Israeli army."

Director : Sansour, Leila.

"Set in 1970 during the war of attrition, this film chronicles events in the lives of 7 Israeli students during the summer following their high school graduation, which is clouded by their impending induction into the Army ... A celebration of youthful innocence and idealism, which offers at the same time a grim reminder of the tragedy of war."

Director : Schorr, Renen.

"A Palestinian family's land, once covered with olive trees and crops, has been bulldozed by Israeli forces. Debris is not simply the story of a farmer whose house is bulldozed and whose farm is destroyed. Debris is a fantasy ... of dreams to fly far away in order to touch the sky, to break out of the despair of reality. Debris is the story of an entire generation who inherited humiliation and ignominy. It is a story of men crying ..."

Director : Shihada, Abdel Salam.

"A Palestinian family's land, once covered with olive trees and crops, has been bulldozed by Israeli forces. Debris is not simply the story of a farmer whose house is bulldozed and whose farm is destroyed. Debris is a fantasy ... of dreams to fly far away in order to touch the sky, to break out of the despair of reality. Debris is the story of an entire generation who inherited humiliation and ignominy. It is a story of men crying ..."

Director : Shihada, Abdel Salam.

"A Palestinian family's land, once covered with olive trees and crops, has been bulldozed by Israeli forces. Debris is not simply the story of a farmer whose house is bulldozed and whose farm is destroyed. Debris is a fantasy ... of dreams to fly far away in order to touch the sky, to break out of the despair of reality. Debris is the story of an entire generation who inherited humiliation and ignominy. It is a story of men crying ..."

Director : Shihada, Abdel Salam.

Director : Shihada, Abdel Salam.

"The film offers insight into the complexities of the situation of Israeli Arabs, who are, on the one hand, deprived of true democratic citizenship but, on the other, enjoy freedoms of expression that are rare elsewhere in the Arab world."

Director : Tabari, Ula.

"An examination of the motives of Palestinian youths who risk their lives to throw stones at Israeli soldiers. The director asks: Why don't they fear death or injury? How aware are they of what is happening around them? What political thoughts drive them to go and possibly fight to their deaths?"

Director : Terawi, Ghada.

"An examination of the motives of Palestinian youths who risk their lives to throw stones at Israeli soldiers. The director asks: Why don't they fear death or injury? How aware are they of what is happening around them? What political thoughts drive them to go and possibly fight to their deaths?"

Director : Terawi, Ghada.

"An examination of the motives of Palestinian youths who risk their lives to throw stones at Israeli soldiers. The director asks: Why don't they fear death or injury? How aware are they of what is happening around them? What political thoughts drive them to go and possibly fight to their deaths?"

Director : Terawi, Ghada.

"An examination of the motives of Palestinian youths who risk their lives to throw stones at Israeli soldiers. The director asks: Why don't they fear death or injury? How aware are they of what is happening around them? What political thoughts drive them to go and possibly fight to their deaths?"

Director : Terawi, Ghada.

"Conference presentations deal with the Separation Wall, Israeli closure regime, checkpoints, confiscation of lands, the role of humanitarianism. From cover: "The Occupied Palestinian Territories have witnessed a drastic deterioration in living conditions since the outbreak of the second Intifada. To compound the problem, there is little or no effective local government left functioning in the territories. Stepping forward to try to fill this gap are international aid agencies, alongside international, Israeli and Palestinian NGOs. What are the implications of the transformation of the occupied Palestinian territories into a disaster zone? Is humanitarian action a means of depoliticizing a political conflict? What is the role of new forms of activism in rewriting the distinction between political and humanitarian responses?""

Director : Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.

Director : Various directors.

Director : Waylar, Naywa.

"In Tel-Aviv, where people have lived with violence for generations, war is accepted as a part of life. Every young man wants to be in uniform, and looks on it as the ultimate symbol of masculinity. Someone is murdering those young soldiers, sneaking up on them at random in the night. Is it the work of terrorists? Or is it one lone maniac? No one knows, and the city becomes more apprehensive as one killing follows another in Soldier of the Night."

Director : Wolman, Dan.

Director : Zighari, Khaled.

Director : Zikra, Samir.

"Almost one of third of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip are school and university students. Under Israeli occupation for 35 years, Palestinian education has been a basic struggle rather than a basic right. This film examines the more recent history of that struggle during Israel's current war of attrition on the civilian population under its control. -- Filmed in the spring and summer of 2003, the film joins students and teachers on their everyday journey to reach their schools and universities under the regime of military roadblocks. -- Basic activities associated with education life: reaching class, going home attending graduation, have become immense challenges. In continuing to make the difficulty journey, students, and teachers assert their right to education and future. This is their story."

Director : Zobaidi, Sobhi al- 1961-.

"A video journal reflecting the life of a Palestinian family and a Palestinian town during one year of the intifada. Kalandia is the name of a refugee camp between Ramallah and Jerusalem, but more recently it has become the location of one of the most heavily-traveled Israeli checkpoints in the Palestinian territories. Shot between May 2001 and August 2002, Crossing Kalandia offers a unique perspective on recent events in Palestine."

Director : Zobaidi, Sobhi al- 1961-.

"A video journal reflecting the life of a Palestinian family and a Palestinian town during one year of the intifada. Kalandia is the name of a refugee camp between Ramallah and Jerusalem, but more recently it has become the location of one of the most heavily-traveled Israeli checkpoints in the Palestinian territories. Shot between May 2001 and August 2002, Crossing Kalandia offers a unique perspective on recent events in Palestine."

Director : Zobaidi, Sobhi al- 1961-.

"A video journal reflecting the life of a Palestinian family and a Palestinian town during one year of the intifada. Kalandia is the name of a refugee camp between Ramallah and Jerusalem, but more recently it has become the location of one of the most heavily-traveled Israeli checkpoints in the Palestinian territories. Shot between May 2001 and August 2002, Crossing Kalandia offers a unique perspective on recent events in Palestine."

Director : Zobaidi, Sobhi al- 1961-.

"This extraordinary record of Palestine from 1917 to 1974, with its compelling and irrefutable archival footage, still stands as a major filmic testament to the complex modern history of Palestine"

Director : Zubaydī, Qays, 1939-.

"A 90-minute anthology of five Palestinian shorts commissioned for the millennial celebration in December 1999"

"Thirteen short films made by students at the Columbia University School of the Arts Film Division and honored by the division's faculty at the 2005 Columbia University Film Festival."