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1. Palestine Is Still the Issue (2002 TV Movie)
53 min | Documentary
A documentary about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that has lasted for more than 50 years. Contains some interviews with the children in this conflict.
Director: Tony Stark | Stars: John Pilger, Fatima Abed-Rabo, Amjad Abu Laban, Mustafa Barghouthi
Votes: 453
2. Arna's Children (2004)
84 min | Documentary
Juliano Mer Khamis' documentary on his mother, Arna, an activist against the Israeli occupation who founded an alternative education system for Palestinian children.
Directors: Danniel Danniel, Juliano Mer-Khamis | Stars: Arna Mer Khamis, Juliano Mer-Khamis
Votes: 263
3. To Shoot an Elephant (2009)
112 min | Documentary
Medics risk their lives to rescue and treat the wounded in the war-torn Gaza Strip.
Directors: Alberto Arce, Mohammad Rujailah | Stars: Ewa Jasiewicz, Marwan Hamuda, Alberto Arce, Haya Hamdan
Votes: 100
4. Lays lahum wujud (1974)
25 min | Documentary, Short
Shooting under extraordinary conditions, the director, who worked with Godard on his Ici et Ailleurs (Here and Elsewhere) - this film was shot on the same 16mm camera - and founded the ... See full summary »
Director: Mustafa Abu Ali
Votes: 125
5. Bonboné (2017)
15 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
A Palestinian couple resorts to an unusual way to conceive as the husband is detained in an Israeli jail where visits are restricted.
Director: Rakan Mayasi | Stars: Saleh Bakri, Rana Alamuddin, Nadira Omran, Ziad Bakri
Votes: 354
6. Budrus (2009)
Unrated | 70 min | Documentary, Action, Biography
Follows a Palestinian leader who unites Fatah, Hamas and Israelis in an unarmed movement to save his village from destruction. Success eludes them until his 15-year-old daughter jumps into the fray.
Director: Julia Bacha
Votes: 405 | Gross: $0.07M
7. A World Not Ours (2012)
93 min | Documentary, Biography, History
An intimate, and often humorous, portrait of three generations of exile in the refugee camp of Ein el-Helweh, in southern Lebanon. Based on a wealth of personal recordings, family archives,... See full summary »
Director: Mahdi Fleifel | Star: Mahdi Fleifel
Votes: 528
8. Bab el shams (2004)
278 min | Romance, Drama, War
In the beginning was Palestine, and the story of Younes (Orwa Nyrabia) began, known as Abou Salem, known as the Man, said to be the father of Ibrahim, fighting the English from the age of ... See full synopsis »
Director: Yousry Nasrallah | Stars: Rim Turki, Orwa Nyrabia, Basel Khayyat, Hala Omran
Votes: 403
9. Route 181: Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel (2003)
270 min | Documentary
Summer 2002, the Palestinian filmmaker Michel Khleifi and the Israeli filmmaker Eyal Sivan set off on a cinematographic journey in their country, Palestine-Israel.
Directors: Michel Khleifi, Eyal Sivan | Stars: Michel Khleifi, Eyal Sivan
Votes: 142
10. The Dupes (1972)
107 min | Drama
Set in Iraq (but shot in Syria), this is the story of three men who try to leave their impoverished and hopeless lives to get get work in Kuwait. They hire a water-truck driver to transport... See full summary »
Director: Tewfik Saleh | Stars: Mohamed Kheir-Halouani, Abdul Rahman Al Rashi, Bassan Lofti Abou-Ghazala, Bassam Lotfi
Votes: 401
11. Nekam Achat Mishtey Eynay (2005)
100 min | Documentary
A documentary on the treatment of Palestianians by members of the Israeli army.
Director: Avi Mograbi | Star: Shredi Jabarin
Votes: 228
12. In Between (2016)
R | 103 min | Drama
Three Palestinian women living in an apartment in Tel Aviv try to find a balance between traditional and modern culture.
Director: Maysaloun Hamoud | Stars: Mouna Hawa, Sana Jammelieh, Shaden Kanboura, Mahmud Shalaby
Votes: 3,097 | Gross: $0.11M
13. The Law in These Parts (2011)
Not Rated | 100 min | Documentary, History
Can justice truly be served in the occupied territories given the current system of law administered by Israel for Palestinians?
Director: Ra'anan Alexandrowicz
Votes: 400
14. Wajib (2017)
96 min | Comedy, Drama
A father and his estranged son must come together to hand deliver his daughter's wedding invitations to each guest as per local Palestinian custom, in this rousing family drama from Annemarie Jacir (When I Saw You).
Director: Annemarie Jacir | Stars: Mohammad Bakri, Saleh Bakri, Tarik Kopty, Monera Shehadeh
Votes: 1,907
15. The Wanted 18 (2014)
Not Rated | 75 min | Documentary, Animation
A small Palestinian village bought 18 cows and stopped buying Israeli milk.
Directors: Paul Cowan, Amer Shomali | Stars: Alison Darcy, Walaa Eltiti, Yazeed Faruja, Heidi Foss
Votes: 411
16. Gaza Strip (2002)
74 min | Documentary
Focuses on 13-year-old Mohammed Hejazi, a second-grade dropout the filmmaker encountered at the Karni crossing in the Gaza Strip, where Palestinian children often gather to throw stones.
Director: James Longley | Star: Mohammed Hejazi
Votes: 312
17. Location Hunting in Palestine (1965)
54 min | Documentary
While scouting locations for his classic "The Gospel According to St. Matthew", director Pier Paolo Pasolini noticed that filming in the actual site of the story, in Palestine, wouldn't be ... See full summary »
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: don Andrea Carraro, Pier Paolo Pasolini
Votes: 325
18. Falastine Stereo (2013)
90 min | Drama
Two Palestinian brothers plan on immigrating to Canada after the Israeli air force bombs their family home. Milad (Stereo) used to be a wedding singer but because his wife dies in the ... See full summary »
Director: Rashid Masharawi | Stars: Mahmoud Abu Jazi, Salah Hanoun, Ramzi Maqdisi
Votes: 160
19. Infiltrators (2012)
PG-13 | 70 min | Documentary
A visceral Road Movie that chronicles the daily travails of Palestinians of all backgrounds as they seek routes through, under, around, and over a bewildering matrix of barriers.
Director: Khaled Jarrar
Votes: 34
20. My Land (2011)
80 min | Documentary
"My land" gives voice to old Palestinian refugees who fled in 1948 without ever returning to their land, and who have been living in camps in Lebanon for more than 60 years.
Director: Nabil Ayouch
Votes: 27
21. Al Helm: Martin Luther King in Palestine (2014)
93 min | Documentary, Drama, Music
An African American gospel choir is the Greek chorus for a Palestinian play on Martin Luther King, Jr. which tours the West Bank, preaching nonviolence. The devoutly Christian choir grew up... See full summary »
Directors: Kamel El Basha, Connie Field | Stars: Ramzi Maqdisi, Georgina Asfour, Mohammed Al-Basha, Mahmoud Awad
Votes: 10
22. A Bottle in the Gaza Sea (2010)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
Tal is 17 years old. Naim is 20. She's Israeli. He's Palestinian. She lives in Jerusalem. He lives in Gaza. They were born in a land of scorched earth, where fathers bury their children. ... See full summary »
Director: Thierry Binisti | Stars: Agathe Bonitzer, Mahmud Shalaby, Hiam Abbass, Riff Cohen
Votes: 1,133 | Gross: $0.00M
23. 3000 Nights (2015)
103 min | Drama
A young Palestinian schoolteacher gives birth to her son in an Israeli prison where she fights to protect him, survive and maintain hope.
Director: Mai Masri | Stars: Maisa Abd Elhadi, Nadira Omran, Rakeen Saad, Raida Adon
Votes: 1,091
24. Like Twenty Impossibles (2003)
17 min | Drama, Short
Occupied Palestine: A serene landscape now pockmarked by military checkpoints. When a Palestinian film crew decides to avert a closed checkpoint by taking a remote side road, the political ... See full summary »
Director: Annemarie Jacir | Stars: Tarek Abu Assab, Ashraf Abu Moch, Reem Abu-Sbaih, Ismael Dabbag
Votes: 221
25. The Olive Harvest (2003)
89 min | Drama
Upon his release from an Israeli prison, Mazen (Saade) begins to fall in love with Raeda (Adun), his friend since childhood who is already engaged to Taher (Najeeb), Mazen's younger brother.
Director: Hanna Elias | Stars: Raida Adon, Mohammad Bakri, Samiah Kazmouz, Taher Najeeb
Votes: 29
26. Al-manam (1988)
45 min | Documentary
A collection of interviews with Palestinian refugees in Lebanon during the civil war, interviewed by Malas about what dreams they saw when they went to sleep.
Director: Mohamed Malas
Votes: 47
27. Amreeka (2009)
PG-13 | 96 min | Drama
A drama centered on the trials and tribulations of a proud Palestinian Christian immigrant single mother and her teenage son in small town Indiana.
Director: Cherien Dabis | Stars: Nisreen Faour, Melkar Muallem, Hiam Abbass, Alia Shawkat
Votes: 3,686 | Gross: $0.62M
28. The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi and 27 Years Without Images (2011)
Not Rated | 66 min | Documentary
May, the daughter of a Japanese terrorist, and Adachi, an activist film-maker, tell the story of their lengthy exile in Lebanon. A reflection on the relationship between life, politics and cinema.
Director: Eric Baudelaire | Stars: Masao Adachi, Mei Shigenobu
Votes: 131
30. Love, Theft and Other Entanglements (2015)
90 min | Drama, Thriller
A 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Muayad Alayan | Stars: Sami Metwasi, Ramzi Maqdisi, Kamel El Basha, Maya Abu Alhayyat
Votes: 104
31. El color de los olivos (2006)
97 min | Documentary
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Carolina Rivas | Stars: Asia Amer, Hani Amer, Hisham Amer, Ishak Amer
Votes: 84 | Gross: $0.00M
32. Man Without a Cell Phone (2010)
83 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Sameh Zoabi | Stars: Razi Shawahdeh, Loai Nofi, Bassem Loulou, Naela Zarqawy
Votes: 74
33. My Love Awaits Me by the Sea (2013)
80 min | Documentary, Biography, Fantasy
A woman takes a first time journey back to her Palestine. Accompanied by Hasan, her imaginary lover, she searches for his fantasy world and finds the remnants of hope in a land exhausted by endless year
Director: Mais Darwazah | Stars: Muhannad Halawani, Maryam Kanj, Nael Kanj, Leila Muammar
Votes: 56
34. Fertile Memory (1981)
Not Rated | 99 min | Documentary
The first full length film to be shot within the occupied Palestinian West Bank "Green Line," FERTILE MEMORY is the feature debut of Michel Khleifi, acclaimed director of the Cannes Film ... See full summary »
Director: Michel Khleifi | Stars: Farah Hatoum, Sahar Khalifeh
Votes: 71
35. Genet à Chatila (1999)
98 min | Documentary
Director: Richard Dindo | Stars: Mounia Raoui, Leila Shahid, Jean-François Stévenin
Votes: 27
36. Wedding in Galilee (1987)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama
A Palestinian seeks Israeli permission to waive curfew to give his son a fine wedding. The military governor's condition is that he and his officers attend. The groom berates his father for... See full summary »
Director: Michel Khleifi | Stars: Mohamad Ali El Akili, Bushra Karaman, Makram Khoury, Yussuf Abu-Warda
Votes: 524
37. Attente (I) (2005)
90 min | Drama
Before leaving to settle abroad, Ahmad accepts one last job. He must audition actors for the new National Palestinian Theatre. On the road with interviewer Bissan and her cameraman Loumir, ... See full summary »
Director: Rashid Masharawi | Stars: Areen Omari, Youssef Baroud, Abderrahman Abou El Qassem, Fouad Al Shomali
Votes: 195
38. The Idol (2015)
Not Rated | 100 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Mohammed Assaf, an aspiring musician living in Gaza, sets a seemingly impossible goal: to compete on the program "Arab Idol."
Director: Hany Abu-Assad | Stars: Tawfeek Barhom, Qais Attaallah, Hiba Attalah, Ahmad Qasem
Votes: 1,994
39. Mur (2004)
Not Rated | 96 min | Documentary
A meditation on the separation fence in Israel-Palestine that imprisons one people while enclosing the other.
Director: Simone Bitton
Votes: 285
40. The Invisible Men (2012)
Not Rated | 68 min | Documentary, Drama
An untold side of the Israeli- Palestinian Conflict: gay Palestinians - Louie, Abdu and Fares - are hiding in Tel Aviv, and until they escape, they must remain 'the invisible men'.
Director: Yariv Mozer
Votes: 233
41. La Última Luna (2005)
105 min | Drama
Palestine 1914. One morning in July, Soliman, a young Palestinian Christian, and Jacob, his Jewish friend, begin to build a house in Beit-Sajour, in the Judean hills, with stones brought ... See full summary »
Director: Miguel Littin | Stars: Aymann Abuloff, Tamara Acosta, Alejandro Goic, Francisca Merino
Votes: 84
42. The Cup Reader (2013)
TV-G | 12 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Suha Araj | Stars: Manal Awad, Yasmine Elias, Faten Khoury, Samia Kuzmoz
Votes: 11
43. This Is My Land (2014)
94 min | Documentary, History
How do the Palestinian and Israeli (Arab and Jewish) education systems teach the history of their nations?
Director: Tamara Erde
Votes: 50
44. Degrade (2015)
85 min | Drama
In Gaza, two hairdressers and ten customers of various ages and backgrounds spend the day trapped in a beauty salon while Hamas police fight a gang in the street.
Directors: Arab Nasser, Tarzan Nasser | Stars: Hiam Abbass, Victoria Balitska, Manal Awad, Mirna Sakhla
Votes: 357
45. Habibi Rasak Kharban (2011)
85 min | Drama, Romance, War
'Habibi Rasak Kharban' (Darling, Something's Wrong with Your Head) is a dramatic feature that tells the story of a forbidden love in Gaza. The film is a modern re-telling of the famous ancient Sufi parable 'Majnun Layla'.
Director: Susan Youssef | Stars: Maisa Abd Elhadi, Kais Nashif, Yussuf Abu-Warda, Amer Khalil
Votes: 172
46. The Massacre of Kafr Kassem (1975)
108 min | Drama
Drama about a massacre of Palestinians at the hands of the Israelis in the years 1947-51.
Director: Borhane Alaouié | Stars: Abdallah Abbassi, Ahmad Ayub, Salim Sabri, Shafiq Manfaluti
Votes: 68
47. Jenin, Jenin (2003)
54 min | Documentary
Documentary about the 2002 deadly confrontations between armed Israeli soldiers and Palestinians in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.
Director: Mohammad Bakri
Votes: 571
48. Hikayatul jawahiri thalath (1995)
112 min | Drama, Romance, War
A Palestinian boy becomes entranced with a beautiful Gypsy girl and a fairy tale world she weaves amidst conflict in Gaza. The children explore nature, mysticism and what their future holds... See full summary »
Director: Michel Khleifi | Stars: Mohammed Nahnal, Hana' Nc'mch, Bushra Karaman, Raida Adon
Votes: 163
49. Edut (2011)
81 min | Drama
Palestinian testimonies collected after the second Intifada revealed a harsh daily life reality that, for Israelis, had always belonged to the "others" - the Palestinians - and hence was ... See full summary »
Director: Shlomi Elkabetz | Stars: Ronit Elkabetz, Menashe Noy, Dikla, Reymonde Amsallem
Votes: 61
50. Haïfa (1996)
75 min | Drama, War
Haifa, nicknamed after the city of his love and hope, goes around and comes around in a Palestinian refugee camp. Although he is everybody's fool, there are many things that only he knows. ... See full summary »
Director: Rashid Masharawi | Stars: Mohammad Bakri, Ahmad Abu Sal'oum, Hiam Abbass, Nawal Zaqout
Votes: 126
51. Curfew (1994)
74 min | Drama
24 hours of family drama during a curfew announced by the Israeli army in a Palestinian refugee camp on the Gaza Strip in 1993.
Director: Rashid Masharawi | Stars: Salim Daw, Na'ila Zayaad, Mahmoud Qadah, Younis Younis
Votes: 101
52. Port of Memory (2010)
62 min | Drama
In what is left of the city of Jaffa, a man about to lose his house contemplates his fate. Meanwhile two women remain tied to their homes. Cats scrabbling her front door, one finds solace ... See full summary »
Director: Kamal Aljafari | Stars: Salim Bilbesi, George Khleifi
Votes: 37
53. Ouroboros (II) (2017)
Not Rated | 75 min | Documentary
An experimental film about the destruction of Gaza. Ouroboros (the serpent eating itself) is the meaning of the cyclical nature of time.
Director: Basma Alsharif | Stars: Jessica Bellinger, Coleman Collins, Claire De Pimodan, Bo Gallerito
Votes: 82
54. Nashid el-Hajar (1991)
110 min | Drama
Two Palestinian lovers, parted during the 60s when he is imprisoned for resisting the Israeli occupation and she sorrowfully emigrates to the US, come together again in Jerusalem some 18 ... See full summary »
Director: Michel Khleifi | Stars: Bushra Karaman, Makram Khoury
Votes: 25
55. Ticket to Jerusalem (2002)
85 min | Drama
This inspired hybrid of documentary and fiction follows Jabir, who runs a mobile cinema from his old truck throughout the West Bank while his wife works to bring emergency medical care to ... See full summary »
Director: Rashid Masharawi | Stars: Gassan Abbas, Areen Omari, George Ibrahim, Reem Ilo
Votes: 352
56. Red, White and Black (1976)
105 min | Drama
A film about the Palestinian refugees of the six-day war living in Syria, taking place a month before the Yom Kippur War.
Director: Bashir Safiya
57. Occupied Palestine (1981)
87 min | Documentary
Long before the first Intifada drew international media to focus on Palestinian life under Israeli rule, David Koff produced this in-depth portrait of the daily conflict being waged in ... See full summary »
Director: David Koff
Votes: 7
58. Letters to Palestine (2010)
38 min | Short
Letters to Palestine is a documentary project that gathers the voices of Arab people to read their letters-never-sent to the Palestinian people living under occupation. Young and old, these... See full summary »
Director: Rashid Al-Marri | Star: Ebrahim Ustadi
59. The Well (2011)
10 min | Short, Drama, History
During the 1948 war in Palestine and just one day after a massacre which shocked the world, an Old man encounters a young man and a boy running for their lives. The three Palestinians share... See full summary »
Director: Ahmad Habash | Stars: Ismael Dabbag, Ahmad Diab, Hussein Yassin Mahajne
60. Home Movies Gaza (2013)
25 min | Short
An introduction to the Gaza Strip as a microcosm 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Basma Alsharif
Votes: 10
61. 5 Broken Cameras (2011)
Not Rated | 94 min | Documentary, War
A documentary on a Palestinian farmer's chronicle of his nonviolent resistance to the actions of the Israeli army.
Directors: Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi | Stars: Emad Burnat, Soraya Burnat, Mohammed Burnat, Yasin Burnat
Votes: 6,647 | Gross: $0.11M
exeption
62. Paradise Now (2005)
PG-13 | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.
Director: Hany Abu-Assad | Stars: Kais Nashif, Ali Suliman, Lubna Azabal, Hamza Abu-Aiaash
Votes: 24,078 | Gross: $1.45M
exeption
63. Omar (2013)
Not Rated | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A young Palestinian freedom fighter agrees to work as an informant after he's tricked into an admission of guilt by association in the wake of an Israeli soldier's killing.
Director: Hany Abu-Assad | Stars: Adam Bakri, Leem Lubany, Eyad Hourani, Samer Bisharat
Votes: 15,495 | Gross: $0.36M
exeption
64. Ajami (2009)
Not Rated | 124 min | Crime, Drama
Ajami is the religiously mixed community of Muslims and Christians in Tel Aviv. These are five stories about the everyday life in Ajami.
Directors: Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani | Stars: Fouad Habash, Nisrin Siksik, Elias Saba, Youssef Sahwani
Votes: 6,532 | Gross: $0.62M
exeption
65. Here and Elsewhere (1976)
53 min | Documentary, War
The movie incorporates footage of fedayeens taken for an aborted pro-Palestinian film which had been abandoned when subjects were killed. Here and Elsewhere takes its name from the footage it shows of the fedayeens and of a French family.
Directors: Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville | Star: Jean-Luc Godard
Votes: 890
exeption
66. The Attack (2012)
R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An Palestinian surgeon living in Tel Aviv discovers a dark secret about his wife in the aftermath of a suicide bombing.
Director: Ziad Doueiri | Stars: Ali Suliman, Reymonde Amsallem, Evgenia Dodina, Dvir Benedek
Votes: 4,556 | Gross: $1.71M
exeption
67. Chronicle of a Disappearance (1996)
88 min | Drama
A Palestinian expatriate filmmaker (Elia Suleiman) documents the loss of national identity in Israel's Arab population.
Director: Elia Suleiman | Stars: Elia Suleiman, Nazira Suleiman, Fuad Suleiman, Ali Suliman
Votes: 852
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68. Divine Intervention (2002)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Romance, War
Separated by a checkpoint, Palestinian lovers from Jerusalem and Ramallah arrange clandestine meetings.
Director: Elia Suleiman | Stars: Elia Suleiman, Manal Khader, George Ibrahim, Amer Daher
Votes: 3,945 | Gross: $0.39M
exeption
69. When I Saw You (2012)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama
1967. The world is alive with change: brimming with reawakened energy, new styles, music and an infectious sense of hope. In Jordan, a different kind of change is underway as tens of ... See full summary »
Director: Annemarie Jacir | Stars: Mahmoud Asfa, Ruba Blal, Saleh Bakri, Anas Algaralleh
Votes: 871
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70. My Country Till I Return (2019)
67 min | Documentary
Directors: Erdal Hos, Nuran Ozkan | Stars: Nadia Gharib, Raul Hasbun, Nicola Hadwa Shahwan
71. El color del camaleón (2017)
87 min | Documentary
During the Pinochet-dictatorship, Jorge Lübbert escaped from Chile and left behind a frightening period of his life. But he forgot everything. With his son Andrés he decides to remember what happened and confront his past.
Director: Andrés Lübbert | Stars: Jorge Lubbert, Andrés Lübbert, Javier Rebolledo, Orlando Lübbert
Votes: 64
72. Gaza (2019)
92 min | Documentary
A beautiful portrait of everyday Gazan citizens, leading meaningful lives beyond the rubble of perennial conflict.
Directors: Garry Keane, Andrew McConnell | Star: Dana Abed
Votes: 564
73. Forbidden to Wander (2004)
35 min | Documentary, Short
Forbidden to Wander chronicles the experiences of a 25-year-old Arab American woman traveling on her own in the occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip during the summer of ... See full summary »
Director: Susan Youssef
74. Kurtlar Vadisi: Filistin (2011)
105 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Polat Alemdar and his crew is in Palestine and fight against Israel special agents.
Director: Zübeyr Sasmaz | Stars: Necati Sasmaz, Gürkan Uygun, Kenan Çoban, Nur Fettahoglu
Votes: 9,663
75. Palestine Blues (2006 Video)
80 min | Documentary
Palestine Blues', follows the repercussions of the Israeli Security Wall and Settlement expansion in the engulfed/annexed Palestinian farming communities of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip... See full summary »
Director: Nida Sinnokrot
Votes: 43
76. Samouni Road (2018)
128 min | Documentary, Animation
In the rural outskirts of Gaza City a small community of farmers, the Samouni extended family, is about to celebrate a wedding. It's going to be the first celebration since the latest war. ... See full summary »
Director: Stefano Savona | Stars: Amal Samouni, Fouad Samouni
Votes: 220
77. Black Notebooks: Ronit (2021)
108 min | Documentary, Drama
Shlomi Elkabetz shares a love letter to his sister, the late actress and director Ronit Elkabetz.
Director: Shlomi Elkabetz | Stars: Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz, Miriam Elkabetz, Eli Elkabetz
Votes: 96
78. Invisible demons: tuhon merkit (2021)
70 min | Documentary
Explores the dramatic consequences of India's growing economy, capturing not only a city in crisis but magnifying our collective climate realities.
Director: Rahul Jain
Votes: 466
79. Sunless Shadows (2019)
74 min | Documentary
In an Iranian juvenile detention center, a group of adolescent girls are serving time for having murdered their father, husband or another male family member.
Director: Mehrdad Oskouei
Votes: 255
80. Demons in Paradise (2017)
94 min | Documentary
Sri Lanka 1983, Jude Ratman is five years old. On a red train, he flees the massacre of the Tamils instigated by the liberal majoritarian government. Now a filmmaker, he takes the same ... See full summary »
Director: Jude Ratnam
Votes: 64
81. Borderlands (2021)
67 min | Documentary
An intimate exploration of how everyday lives intertwine with personal and political borders in the Indian subcontinent.
Director: Samarth Mahajan
Votes: 54
82. 1341 Frames of Love and War (2022)
89 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The career of Israeli photo reporter Micha Bar-Am, born in Berlin in 1930, thus becomes an assembly of iconic snapshots, enlargements and contact sheets which serve as the score for two voices.
Director: Ran Tal | Stars: Barak Bar-Am, Micha Bar-Am, Nimrod Bar-Am, Orna Bar-Am
Votes: 85
83. Sand and Blood (2017)
R | 90 min | Documentary
Young refugees from Iraq and Syria reflect on their lost youth, while found private video footage provides a disturbing view of the development of war.
Directors: Matthias Krepp, Angelika Spangel
Votes: 7
84. In the Shadow of War
87 min | Documentary, War | Post-production
This is a journey of solidarity, life and death starting from a small border village (Maheser/ Turkey), in anticipation for the war to end with victory and continuing to a city (Kobane) ... See full summary »
Director: Reyan Tuvi
85. Nowhere to Hide (2016)
86 min | Documentary, War
"Nowhere to Hide" follows a man - the medic and father Nori Sharif - through 5 years of dramatic change in the war-torn Diyala-province; one of the most dangerous provinces in the middle of... See full summary »
Director: Zaradasht Ahmed | Stars: Abu Fallah, Hans Husum, Mudhafar, Nori Sharif
Votes: 194
86. Team Gaza (2016)
85 min | Documentary
Team Gaza records the lives of four young football players daring to dream in Gaza, a land strip sealed off from the outside world. Stuck between walls these four Gazans try to build their lives.
Director: Laurens Samsom
Votes: 16
87. Letters from Baghdad (2016)
TV-PG | 95 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Gertrude Bell, the most powerful woman in the British Empire in her day, shaped the destiny of Iraq after WWI in ways that still reverberate today.
Directors: Sabine Krayenbühl, Zeva Oelbaum | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Michael Higgs, Eric Loscheider, Rachael Stirling
Votes: 483 | Gross: $0.36M
88. The Challenge (IV) (2016)
69 min | Documentary
Focused on the world of wealthy Qatari sheikhs with a passion for amateur falconry, 'The Challenge' combines cinematic beauty with rare access and trailblazing form. Here, the opulence of ... See full summary »
Director: Yuri Ancarani
Votes: 367 | Gross: $0.01M
89. The Unredacted (2022)
108 min | Documentary
Guantanamo detainees are released into a year long program of de-radicalization in Saudi Arabia, with the eventual goal of finding jobs and starting families.
Director: Meg Smaker
Votes: 233
90. Klondike (2022)
100 min | Drama, War
After flight MH17 crashes in eastern Ukraine, violent tensions disrupt the lives of an expecting couple living in Donetsk.
Director: Maryna Er Gorbach | Stars: Oksana Cherkashyna, Sergey Shadrin, Oleg Shcherbina, Oleg Shevchuk
Votes: 1,882
91. Shoot Me (2013)
30 min | Documentary, Short, History
The Iranian filmmaker Narges Kalhor, daughter of a former advisor of Ahmadinejad's, has been living in exile in Germany for four years. When she hears that the fellow Iranian rapper Shahin ... See full summary »
Directors: Narges Kalhor, Benedikt Schwarzer
92. Sonita (2015)
90 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
After her family attempts to sell her into marriage, a young Afghan refugee in Iran channels her frustrations and seizes her destiny through music. Grabbing the mic, she spits fiery rhymes in the face of oppressive traditions.
Director: Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami | Stars: Sonita Alizadeh, Latifah Alizadeh, Fadia Alizadeh, Ahmad Ahmadi
Votes: 887
93. Abdo (2015)
74 min | Documentary, Adventure, Biography
ABDO is a coming of age documentary that portrays two years in the life of a young activist in Egypt. Ultras football fan, atheist and anarchist with a religious salafist family background ... See full summary »
Director: Jakob Gross
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