This is the story of Palestine like you've never seen it before. Our filmmakers take you on a journey through the Palestinian cities past and present, inside Israeli prisons and behind the scenes of the resistance movements challenging the occupation today.
Around 60 percent of the West Bank is designated as ‘Area C’. It remains in the hands of the Israeli government, even though under the Oslo Accords, this was supposed to be a temporary division. Is the failure to return the land to the Palestinians because of land, settlements or water? The answer: all of the above.
DIRECTED BY AYED NABAA (2014)
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Five women, two Israelis and three Palestinians, were born in the same year, but became irreconcilably divided by historical events. This is a unique perspective into the story of 1948 for Palestine/Israel.
DIRECTED BY AYED NABAA (2015)
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This is a film about Palestinians who were expelled individually or en masse from their homeland. Ahlam Al Tamimi, Mustafa Hamayel and Mamdouh Al Wardian are just three examples of such moving stories.
DIRECTED BY Bahea Namoor (2014)
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Trips to the “Holy Land” are popular among Christians around the world, with these tours typically run by Israeli tour operators. This film features Palestinian priests, tour operators and writers, as they speak out against the obstacles facing pilgrims visiting sacred sites in Palestine/Israel and the discrimination suffered by the Palestinian Christians who live there.
DIRECTED BY AHMAD DAMEN (2013)
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In Gaza, an acute power shortage has forced millions of Palestinians to live in darkness. This film takes a look at life in Gaza, where the fuel shortages and power outages created by the Israeli siege can become a deadly threat.
DIRECTED BY ASHRAF AL-MASHHARAWY (2012)
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A film about hope in times of hardship and despair, as the people of Gaza demonstrate their remarkable resilience under both occupation and a years-long, unrelenting Israeli siege.
DIRECTED BY ASHRAF AL-MASHHARAWY (2011)
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In summer 2008, 44 activists from 17 different countries created an unforgettable moment in the history of Palestine. Sailing from Greece to Gaza, they broke the Israeli naval siege on the territory for the first time in forty years. This film chronicles their daring act of resistance.
DIRECTED BY YORGOS AVGEROPOULOS & YIANNIS KARIPIDIS (2010)
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Arab prisoners, lawyers and activists reveal the shocking methods used by Shin Bet, the Israeli security service.
DIRECTED BY ISSAM BALLAN (2013)
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Italian activists have been mobilizing themselves to support the Palestinian cause for years. Palestina Amore is about solidarity and protest from the other side of the Mediterranean, a film about the special bond between Italy and Palestine.
DIRECTED BY SHERIF FATHY (2012)
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Being forced to leave your home is all too easy, but it is very difficult to lose your ties completely.
Tens of thousands of Arab Jews were convinced to leave their homeland Morocco to go live in Israel during the 1950s and 1960s. Some of them decided decades later to go back to Morocco to live there and some decided to keep on visiting. This is an extra-ordinary story that waited so long to be told.
DIRECTED BY Charlotte Bruneau (2014)
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In 1987, twenty years after Israel first occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip, massive protests erupted across the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Half a million Palestinians took to the streets to demand an end to Israeli rule, while some 8,000 Israeli soldiers were ordered to contain the uprising. This two-hour film tells some stories from what became known as the First Intifada.
DIRECTED BY Mariam Shahin (2014)
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The Oslo Accords were celebrated as a historic turning point in the conflict between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization. But what was the real outcome? Who were the winners and losers, and what was Norway’s role? This film speaks to those directly involved in the negotiations and reveals what really happened behind the scenes.
DIRECTED BY RAWAN DAMEN (2013)
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