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- DirectorElia SuleimanStarsElia SuleimanTarik KoptyKareem GhneimFilmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland of Palestine.
- DirectorElia SuleimanStarsElia SuleimanNazira SuleimanFuad SuleimanA Palestinian expatriate filmmaker (Elia Suleiman) documents the loss of national identity in Israel's Arab population.
- DirectorElia SuleimanStarsElia SuleimanManal KhaderGeorge IbrahimSeparated by a checkpoint, Palestinian lovers from Jerusalem and Ramallah arrange clandestine meetings.
- DirectorElia SuleimanStarsMenashe NoyElia SuleimanBaher AgbariyaAn examination of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 through to the present day.
- DirectorPaul CowanAmer ShomaliStarsAlison DarcyWalaa EltitiYazeed FarujaA small Palestinian village bought 18 cows and stopped buying Israeli milk.
- DirectorSøren LindLarissa SansourStarsHiam AbbassMaisa Abd ElhadiWalaa Eltiti'In Vitro' is an otherworldly rumination on memory, history, place and identity set in Bethlehem decades after an eco-disaster.
- DirectorBassam JarbawiStarsZiad BakriAreen OmariJameel KhouryPalestinian 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.
- DirectorMohamed JabalyOver the course of five years, Palestinian film director Mohamed Jabaly has been distant from his family and friends while living in the far north of Norway. Now the internet has become the only way to communicate with them, but it is difficult and challenging due to the situation in Gaza. "While living in Gaza I was always in the front line trying to capture everything around me and what was happening. I wanted to make a film about my feelings of living in Norway, and the challenge of finding new ways to tell a story from Gaza. As the situation is getting worse in Gaza, my family and friends have been sharing their thoughts, depressions, and glimpses of daily life online. This time I have used the medium that as I'm using to communicate with my people in Gaza. As well as following the situation in the news, and how I have received it from different parts of the world. My Gaza Online has helped me realize and understand more about the importance of the internet, and how that can change our lives in the way that we use or deal with it."
- DirectorAbdallah Al-KhatibStarsAbdallah Al-KhatibAfter the Syrian Revolution, Al-Assad's regime besieges the district of Yarmouk, largest Palestinian refugee camp in the world. Yarmouk is cut off. The director records the daily deprivations while celebrating the people's courage.
- DirectorNahed AwwadThe Jerusalem Airport lies along the road that links Jerusalem to Ramallah. It has been occupied by Israeli army since 1967, at a 5 kilometer distance from Ramallah and 10 kilometer distance from Jerusalem. Today, to the east of the runway, a huge military checkpoint blocks the Jerusalem-Ramallah road, a dead end street. 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 in the 1950s and 1960s, when Palestinians traveled freely. The happy images and testimonies of the past contrast bitterly with those of the present where access is denied to the aviation zone that is now being besieged behind barbed wire and soon will be trapped behind the Israeli Separation Wall. Nahed Awwad goes to meet this place, evoking the past in order to have a better apprehension of the present: today's Palestinian reality that is marked by forgetfulness.
- DirectorMuayad AlayanStarsSami MetwasiRamzi MaqdisiKamel El BashaA Palestinian car thief gets into the trouble of his life when he steals the wrong car. What he thought was an Israeli car and an easy way to make money in his impoverished refugee camp turns out to be a load of misfortune when he discovers a kidnapped Israeli soldier in the trunk.
- DirectorLarissa SansourStarsLarissa SansourA Space Exodus is the first part of Larissa Sansour's science fiction trilogy. It envisions the final uprootedness of the Palestinian experience and takes the current political predicament to its extra-terrestrial extreme by landing the first Palestinian on the moon. "A small step for a Palestinian, a giant leap for mankind," her voice echoes through her space helmet.
- DirectorMuayad AlayanStarsJohnny HarrisMiley LockeSheherazade FarrellRebecca and her father move from the UK to Jerusalem and their ancestral home, where she befriends Rasha, a Palestinian girl only she can see. Is Rasha a figment of Rebecca's imagination, or is she connected to the home's troubled history?
- DirectorMai MasriStarsMaisa Abd ElhadiNadira OmranRakeen SaadA young Palestinian schoolteacher gives birth to her son in an Israeli prison where she fights to protect him, survive and maintain hope.
- DirectorGarry KeaneAndrew McConnellStarsDana AbedA beautiful portrait of everyday Gazan citizens, leading meaningful lives beyond the rubble of perennial conflict.
- DirectorManu GerosaThe pain and frustration of young Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are shown through the prism of a parkour team.
- DirectorRaed AndoniStarsRamzi MaqdisiMohammed KhattabWafa MariSome Palestinians who were held in an Israeli detention center are assembled to re-enact their experience in an effort to heal.
- DirectorAlexia TsouniWhen Israeli bulldozers arrived at her Bedouin village to demolish her home, 14-year-old Palestine refugee girl Salha called on her flying lamb Hantush to take her somewhere far away.
- DirectorFarah NabulsiStarsSaleh BakriMaryam KanjMariam BashaOn 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?
- DirectorCarol MansourTwelve Palestinian women discuss their lives in Palestine and in the diaspora and how they remain connected to their culture through embroidery.
- DirectorLeila SansourStarsLeila SansourOpen Bethlehem is a story of a homecoming to the world's most famous little town. The film spans seven momentous years in the life of Bethlehem, revealing a city of astonishing beauty and political strife under occupation.
- DirectorHany Abu-AssadStarsClara KhouryKhalifa NatourIsmael DabbagAbout a Palestinian girl of 17 who wants to get married to the man of her own choosing. Rana wakes up one morning to an ultimatum delivered by her father: she must either choose a husband from a preselected list of men, or she must leave Palestine for Egypt with her father by 4:00 that afternoon. With ten hours to find her boyfriend in occupied Jerusalem, she sneaks out of her father's house at daybreak to find her forbidden love Khalil (Natour).
- DirectorSaverio CostanzoStarsMohammad BakriLior MillerHend AyoubA Palestinian family is trapped inside a house commandeered by Israeli soldiers.
- DirectorMohammad BakriDocumentary about the 2002 deadly confrontations between armed Israeli soldiers and Palestinians in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.